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MR. H. J. W. BLISS, director of the Woollen and Worsted Research Association, in a lecture delivered at the Technical College, Bradford, on March 13, made a contribution to our knowledge of the wool fibre, which, while not entirely new, is certainly suggestive from a commercial point of view. That wool is specially elastic and extensible when wet has been common knowledge for the past decade, but the idea of taking a comparatively thick wool thread and stretching it out to a comparatively thin wool thread, to the best of our knowledge has not previously been suggested nor attempted. That this is possible at least in the case of the majority of wool yarns, Mr. Bliss has fully demonstrated: the effects of such stretching upon the yarns and on the cloths (woven or knitted) made from the yarns is yet an open question.
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B., A. The Nature of the Wool Fibre. Nature 113, 475 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113475b0
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