Salt Lake Times | 1890-09-01 | Page 4 | How Hair Cloth is Made

How Hair Cloth Is Made. Many people understand, of course, how hair cloth is made, but for the edification edi-fication of those who do not we will explain ex-plain the process. In tho first place horsehair cannot be dyed. It repels coloring col-oring matter; so to make black cloth it is nocessary to Becure natural black hair. Tho horses, in many cases absolutely wild, running unrestrained, are regularly regu-larly coraled and shorn. Of course black Jiair is preferable, but sometimes gray . stock is utilized. Not only the tails but also the manes are cut; tho hair is bunched. These bunches seldom contain con-tain hairs of less length than two feet; sumo are even three and three and a half feet, and the thickness of the bunches bunch-es is usually two or three inches. Tho hair cloth looms are provided with what wo may call a nipper, in place of shuttle, and the nipper is so finely actuated actu-ated that it travels across the warp and seizes from the bunches one hair only tho jaws of the nipper being too fine to grasp more than one and carries it across the weft threads, dropping it into tho exact place. The action of the loom mechanically forces the hair next to its predocessor, the warp crosses upon it, snugly holds ii in its place, the nipper travels back and seises another, and so on and on. The delicacy and almost human accuracy with which each separate sepa-rate hair is placed between the warp threads is really incredible. New York Tolegram.