Hair
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A short dictionary entry on hair as a material, from Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary. It describes how curled hair for upholstery stuffing is carded, spun into rope, steeped, dried and untwisted. It also lists other uses of hair: spun strands for nose-bags and press bags, cords for clothes-lines and fishing-lines, horse-hair for violin bows and hair-cloth, and wigs.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1876
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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