Burning fibres

[zed]

There was a recent thread on Facebook asking what a fibre might be, and when Judith posted a guide, someone questioned about some fibres not listed, so I burned them and videod it:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4jg6gpP0Rg

Bamboo, Viscose, Milk, Soy, Rose.

And if anyone is interested World of Wool are giving away 250g of white Botany lap waste with orders over £50 throughout January.

[MTRuth]

Interesting - thanks for the video.

[zara]

I see you have found a new fun hobby Zed, burning fibres... ;-) But interesting to see how differently they burn. I have previously only heard of doing that to distinguise between synthetic and natural fibres, but obviously you took it a step further. :-)

[halay]

Very interesting, Zed. I'll keep this in mind when I burn my hairy slippers.

[zed]

Well, I thought I'd be thorough, Zara

Actually, I didn't think it would really have any real use because it's fairly easy to distinguish fibres if you know what they are, and I thought the test would be most useful for fabrics, but now Nada has said that, I can see how useful it is to know!

You would certainly not want the nasty mess made by milk and soy on your slippers, Nada, and I never would have guessed that the cellulose fibres left a yellow, greasey stain/slick.

[Shepherdess]

Cool video. I am not good at knowing what fiber is what because I don't use them very often.