ARTIFICIAL WOOL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19687, 14 January 1926, Page 9

ARTIFICIAL WOOL

BRADFORD DISINTERESTED. (Pres* Association —By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, January 13. (Received Jan. 13, at 5.5_ p.m.) The Yorkshire Post’s description of artificial wool has aroused tremendous interest in Bradford, and textile manufacturers who a few weeks ago scoffed at the idea are now flocking to the Post’s Bradford office to see samples of cloth though they still treat the matter with some reserve. It is gathered that cloth made wholly from sniafil is what is termed hard cloth, ♦while a mixture of sniafil and wool produces a presentable looking second-grade cloth. In this connection it is notable that even sniafil authorities do not entertain the hopg seriously of competing with wool. They ingenuously suggest that, the cheapening'of suite will mean that a man hitherto content with one suit yearly will be able to buy two; thus the demand for •vjool will not bo lessened. They also suggest that the new competition will be a i factor in stabilising wool at values at which Bradford can hope to regain the lost trade, notably with Russia and similar impoverished countries. There are already nine artificial wool factories in Italy, and a. Bradford syndicate is completing plans for one there.

It is stated that sniafil, which resembles spun kapoc, can be woven in an ordinary textile plant. The real test of the claims will be when a suit length sent from Turin arrives in London and is made up for the Yorkshire Post’s investigator to see how it compares for price and durability. —A. and N.Z. Cable.