Re: It's The Muppet Show!
Posted: Wed May 04, 2022 5:18 pm
While I'm on the subject of "flocking", I'll go into a little more depth because it does have interesting uses and I'm considering doing another thread on a related subject.
All these bearded Youtube and Instagram women, real or just paid change agents? If you listen to them, it's always the same scripted dog whistle message. Victim, victim, victim, why won't you just accept my facial hair!
That last one has a prosthetic on the tip of her nose, so almost certainly the entire story is made up and she has flocked arms and a fake beard.
Flock is basically finely-chopped nylon fibres that can vary in length, thickness and colour. In its finest form it’s almost like coloured powder or dust, whereas longer flock is like wiry hair.
It also comes in different thicknesses of fibres measured in decitex, or dtex for short, with one dtex being the measurement of a fibre that weighs one gram per 10,000 meters of length. It can also be made from natural or synthetic materials such as cotton, rayon, and polyester. Flock is inert, so it won’t react chemically with anything it is added to or mixed with, which is essential when working with the wide variety of material formulations we use.
When finer flock is adhered to a surface it looks and feels almost like velvet. This is achieved by adhering all the tiny fibres to the surface at 90 degrees so they stand upright using an electrostatic process.
All these bearded Youtube and Instagram women, real or just paid change agents? If you listen to them, it's always the same scripted dog whistle message. Victim, victim, victim, why won't you just accept my facial hair!
That last one has a prosthetic on the tip of her nose, so almost certainly the entire story is made up and she has flocked arms and a fake beard.