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Show Fur Can Be Made From Sheep Pelts Sheepmen who have long been concerned 'over the threat of synthetic syn-thetic fibers to the natural wool market can now take some comfort com-fort in the newly announced lTiethpd which applies a plastic process to lamb and sheep skins to make a fur almost indistinguish- able from that of beaver, seal, fox, and other animals. These synthetic furs made from real sheep skins are so attractive and serviceable that a tremendous market is foreseen for them, j Eager purchasers are warned, j however, not to become too im-; patient, because the entire current j production of such skins, amount-1 h.g to about 1500 a day, is going j into aviators' suits for the army air forces or the marine corps. The new fur is achieved by plas-ticizing plas-ticizing the pelt so that the properties prop-erties of the processed fur become those of plastic rather than those of either the original pelt or the one it imitates. Shorn sheep pelts are used in making imitations of; beaver and seal, for example, while' tiiishorn sheep skins are transformed trans-formed into imitations of fox and other long-haired furs. Practically any fur desired may be imitated. Indications arc that garments' made from the new type fur can be sold for from 15 to 20 per cent' of the price of the genuine fur. Not only is the price attractive but the new material is said to ' wear many times longer than real ' fur and to be strictly moth-proof. I |