Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1901 — Gowns Made of Wood. [ARTICLE]

Gowns Made of Wood.

From potato buttons to wooden silk is only a step. Remarkable to relate, wood can be utilized for soft, flowing gowns. Wood pulp silk has long been a staple industry in the St Etienne district of France. By certain secret chemical processes the pulp is reduced to a slrupy condition. It Is then forced into tubes full of tiny holes, through which it emerges in the form of fine silklike threads. These are speedily dried by being passed through a hot atmosphere, and, are forthwith wound on bobbins ready to be woven Into silk. The appearance of this unique product is said to be so natural that even experts have mistaken it for the genuine article. It is, of course, infinitely cheaper.