Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1916 — Imitation Fur. [ARTICLE]

Imitation Fur.

A process patented in France con* sists in an improvement in the manufacture of stuffs or objects which imitate fur, plush, or velvet, or for use as carpets and the like. The process starts with an animal’s fur, or an assemblage of animal or vegetable fibers, and these are immobilized by freezing them in a block of ice. The ice is then sawed into slabs, and a slab is made to undergo a sur* face melting so as to partially free the hair or fibers on one side; then a suitable glue or cement is applied upon this surface. A sheet of flexible material acting as the basis of the new make-up is then laid on, so that the hairs adhere to it, and afterward the whole is freed from the ice by melting, leaving the bail’s attached to the support. * Rubber serves as a good basis for the glue or cement, and the support is also coated with the same, and this rubber can then be vulcanized so as to give good adhesion and suppleness^