Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-04
GLASS AND PAPER WOVEN INTO
GOWNS AND LINGERIE.
A REMARKABLE PRODUCT
Garments Clean and Durable and
Very Easily Washed When.
Dirty-limestone Also Treated and
Made Into Material Closely Re-
sembEng Wool.

One of the latest novelties in dress
material is reported to be cloth made
from spun glass and, it can be had in
white, green, lilac, pink and yellow.
The inventor of the frabric is an aus
trian and he declares it is as bright
and as supple as silk, and is none the
worse ior being either stained or soil
ed. Any grease or other spots can be
easily removed by simply brushing the
material with a hard nail brush anu
soap and warm water, says Tit Bits.
The first lady to wear spun-glass
dress was an Austrian lady of royal
rank. 1t was a very delicate hue or
pale lavender, shot with pink, and
when she wore it at a state ball its
peculiar sheen reminded her ad-
mirers of the sparkle of diamond dust.
The Russians manufacture fabric
from the fiber of filamentous stone
from the Siberian mines, which is said
to be of so durable a nature that 1t is
practically everlasting. The material
is soft to the touch and pliable in the
extreme, and has only to be thrown
into a fire when dirty to be made abso-
lutely clean.
A material for clothing is now Ing
woven from shells and rocks in Amer
lea, but the cloth produced up to the
present has not been found flexible and
lasting enough to allow of it being
placed upon the market.
Iron cloth is largely used today by
tailors' for making the collars of coats
sit properly. 1t is manufactured by a
new process from steel wool, and has
the appearance of having been woven
from horse hair.
| Wool which never saw the back of a
lsheep is being largely utilized on the
continent for the making of mems
suits. 1t is known by the name of
limestone wool and is made in an
electric furnace. Powdered limestone
mixed with certain chemical is
thrown into the furnace, and after
passing under furious air blast is
tossed out as fluffy white wool. After
coming from the furnace the wool is
! dyed and finally made into lengths OF
cloth. A pair of trousers Or a coat
made from this material cannot be
burnt or damaged by grease, and is as
| flexible as cloth made from sneep's
wool.
| Some time ago a large wooden man
ufacturer in the north of England sue
ceeded in making a fabric from old
rope and cordage, unraveled them and
wove them by secret process into a
rough cloth. This resultant material
he dyed a dark brown.
A suit of clothes made from it and
worn by the manufacturer himself
proved extremely strong and kept their
color well. 1t is said that large num-
Der of goods now sold by London and
provincial tailors at low prices are
made from old ropes.
Paper clothes were first worn by the
Japanese troops, who found them very
servicable and much warmer than
cloth ones. Paper dressing gowns,
bath robes and similar articles OF
attire are now being turned out by the
carload in Britain, France Germany
and other goahead countries. The
paper from which they are made is of
the biotting variety, and after being
treated by new process is dyed in
various colors or printed with pretty
floral design.
Gloves even are being made OF
paper, and they have one great ad-
vantage. They can be washed clean
with soap and water and dried before
a fire.