“MILK-WOOL” PRODUCE
FACTORY IN BRITAIN HALF-PRICE OF GENUINE ARTICLE MARKETING PLANS (Times Air Mail Service) LONDON, November 12 Milk is to be used in the production of "woollen'’ jumpers and pullovers. “Milk-wool," very difficult to detect from the real thing, is being made in Holland. This week a party of Dutch experts Arrived in Nottingham all ready to work the miracles in Britain. . They are planning to start a factory that will use the milk of English cows. They claim that if they can obtain enough surplus milk at the right price they can turn out "milk wool" at half the price of the genuine product off the sheep's back. Then, as an equal amount of ordinary wool is spun with it into kniuing skeins, they can market the product as wool." "The average woman would not know the skein she was buying was not pure wool," Professor AA. Davis, of Nottingham, a famous authority on hosiery, said this week. "Frankly, I know little against milk wool. It is an animal product like wool. It dyes like wool and is quite warm.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20692, 30 December 1938, Page 10
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