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Yeah, but if I coated my work gloves with it, would I ever be able to pick anything up?
They're using similar technology to treat goose down used in sleeping bags, etc. Down is the lightest, warmest, most compressible insulation material available for clothing, but it loses all its advantages when wet. The new coatings help solve that problem.
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5084 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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If you like goose down you will love spun silk..
If you have not tried a spun silk comforter then you have not lived. It is lighter warmer and is superior to goose down. Plus it does not compress or lose its ability when wet.
I have one and it is very light yet warm. Plus if it is in a silk cover it is even more comfortable. The texture is very soft and smooth. It would guess it weighs about 5 ounces.
I give one as a gift on occasions. They usually get a couple more for family members. It has to be genuine spun silk.
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I use a silk liner for my sleeping bag when backpacking. It adds about 10ºF to the temperature rating, which allows me to use a lighter summer bag in colder weather, is "Oh so comfy!", and keeps the hiking grunge off the interior of the sleeping bag. After a hike, I just have to wash the liner. In summer, the liner is often all I need. Silk is good stuff!
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5084 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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You cant wash a silk tie, so how come you can wash this stuff?
-------------------- dennis kiernan independent artist san francisco, calif, usa Posts: 907 | From: san francisco, ca usa | Registered: Feb 2010
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I use it for backpacking so aesthetics isn't a consideration. However, one of my liners ripped on the camping trip I took the weekend before last so maybe I shouldn't be washing them. Of course, if anyone reads my interminably long post about that trip, they'll understand a ripped silk liner was the least of my problems!
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5084 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Would be an awesome coating in the north on satellite dishes and snow shovels. I saw a video a while back where this stuff was on a toilet plunger. Looks like a possible business opportunity.
-------------------- Dave Sherby "Sandman" SherWood Sign & Graphic Design Crystal Falls, MI 49920 906-875-6201 sherwoodsign@sbcglobal.net Posts: 5397 | From: Crystal Falls, MI USA | Registered: Apr 1999
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I would think this stuff would have an endless supply of uses Dave. Only a handful were shown on the video.
A new product like this, requires opening one's mind, to find new uses.
But just imagine: anti-grafitti uses, kids' clothes that never get grimy, sidewalks that don't need snow shoveled off, cars that can shed road dirt, construction equipment that doesn't get covered in mud, etc.........on and on.
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