NEW COTTON DISCOVERY
SUBSTITUTE FOR SILK
MANCHESTER, June 7
A new textile process of revolutionary importance has been discovered as the result of prolonged research in Manchester. It is a method of producing from cotton a lustrous, almost translucent fabric, more nearly approaching real silk tnan anything at present known. Unlike other processes, which treat cotton either in yarn or in fabric form, the invention consists of a chemico-mechanical method of processing raw cotton which imparts to the fibre a distinctive quality which it retains through the manufacturing and finishing processes.
Independent judges in the trade anticipate that it will play an important part in reasserting the supremacy of Lancashire cloths in world markets. The coarsest cotton can be treated as successfully by this method as the finest Egyptian. The process not only adds to the strength of the cotton, it is stated, but, strangely enough, each successive finishing process seems to add to its strength.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1936, Page 5
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