ARTIFICIAL “WOOL”
the german invention
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(Received July 16. Noon). LONDON, July 15
The “Mail’s” Berlin correspondent, apropos of Hitler’s claim that inventors are producing substitutes for raw material, says: A scientist has produced from plantain-fibres, a yarn called vistra, by a process similar to the manufacture of artificial silk. Fine stuffs similar to crepe can be made from vistra, which when mixed with real wool is called woolstra, capable of being worked up into porous light cloths of good appearance.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 July 1934, Page 11
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