This versatile, adaptable shrug has unusual surface interest because knit in yarn containing DuPont's Fiber E rayon. The attractive, nubby texture is the result of the fiber's ability to be permanently crimped. The shrug is unusually pleasing to...
Text from back of image: "RP 1-10C" "MCI's Cable is in inner duct in the hand hole. Note inner duct lower left of picture. Up and to the right is a piece of marker tape sticking out of the dirt. The fiber at this location was not in the inner...
This roving frame in the staple processing laboratory at DuPont's Kinston, North Carolina plant where Dacron polyester fiber is made, is spinning yarn from this fiber. The roving frame is the third step in spinning staple fiber into yarn and this...
Hand crocheted lace at the right? Not for a moment. It's the same as the loosely woven construction at the left. It was made by the Scranton Lace Company on standard equipment to demonstrate the unusual properties of Fiber E, the DuPont Company's...
Fiber E the DuPont Company's newest form of the oldest of manmade fibers-rayon-lends itself to many unusual effects. Above at the left, the plush is not unusual, but when treated with a dilute solution of caustic soda, the fabric becomes wool like...
The above photographs are fiber diagrams comparing the fiber distribution and length of fibers in Two Top produced by Pacific Mills Worsted Division with other types of top. No. 1 represents a conventional pick carded and combed rayon top. The...
Text from back of image: "RP 1-10G" "New Section of Fiber is in 2' PVC Pipe. Will be left exposed until Wednesday (24hr guard) until the water pipe is in place in this area."
Text from back of image: "RP 1-10H" "New Section of Fiber is in 2' PVC Pipe. Will be left exposed until Wednesday (24hr guard) until the water pipe is in place in this area."
Text from back of image: "RP 1-10I" "New Section of Fiber is in 2' PVC Pipe. Will be left exposed until Wednesday (24hr guard) until the water pipe is in place in this area."
DuPont's Textile Fibers Department's Orlon acrylic fiber manufacturing facilities are shown in this aerial view of the May plant located at Camden, South Carolina. In the foreground is the large plant which makes Orlon fiber in staple form and the...
DuPont's Kinston, North Carolina plant is one of two plants where Dacron polyester fiber is made. The other is located at Old Hickory Tennessee. Bothe Kinston and Old Hickory plants maintain a textile laboratory. The view here shows part of the...
DuPont's Kinston, North Carolina plant is one of two plants where Dacron polyester fiber is made. The other is located at Old Hickory Tennessee. Bothe Kinston and Old Hickory plants maintain a textile laboratory. The view here shows part of the...
Synthetic textile fibers are a major field of current interest in DuPont research. Process engineer pictured here is checking photographs of magnified fiber cross-sections, comparing an experimental fiber, center, with give commercial fibers made...
Text from back of image: "RP 1-10A" "Willow Springs/Argo" "City Water Dept is adding a larger drain pipe 6'x8' MCI's cable is on other side of track. If we didn't move, the pipe would hit us."
