Paper-yarn.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 29, Issue 33, 1 May 1917, Page 2

Paper-yarn.

A fireman’s outfit made of paper is the latest triumph of the German substitute-provider, and the newspapers are as extravagant in their prophecies for the future of this new invention as they have been over the many discoveries of which since their first appearance nothing more has been heard. Paper-yarn, the inventor of which is .one Herr Mavich, of Adorf, is not only the very best material for firemen’s outfits that ever was, but, says Professor Binz, it. will do away with the necessity of importing any more jute, which Geimany in the par-t bought to tue tune of 93,000,000 marks per annum from P.ngland.

Mavich claims i-.iat his paper-yarn can be used for Urn manufacture of carpets, upholstery, sacks and bags, stockings, ropes, v/aist-helts, blankets ; it is a perfect substitute, in fact, ’ for either jute, hemp, or wool. The “Berliner Tagebiatt” forsees the ruin of the Indian jute trade. “What will India think of her clumsy tyrant now that she has made an enemy of her former friend and good customer, whose genius has found a substitute cheaper and better than Indian indigo, and offers the world a material that will put an end to her profitable jute industry ?”