Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1920 — Fake Fur. [ARTICLE]

Fake Fur.

A new and improved method of making imitation fur has been patented in France. It is equally suitable for the manufacture of >< false plush or velvet, • The process starts with hair, or a collection Of animal or vegetable fibers. are frozen in a block of Ice. The ice is then sawn into slabs, and each slab iq made to undergo a surface melting so as to partially free the hair fiber# Oh one side; ' After a suitable glue or cement has been applied to this surface, a sheet of flexible rtTaterlal is laid on to act as the foundation new material. V£bentile hairs or flbers/bave adhered te ztWa basis—wsually rubber—the whole mg. .ng the Imlf.lra I, complete.