Quote Originally Posted by Really a McQueen View Post
Naugahide?


Hey...Kustom guitar amps did a campaign years ago wherein they created a Nauga character because they covered their cabinets in padded naugahide. The thingie looked like a refugee from Where The Wild Things Are.

"Acrylic wool" indeed! Who cooked that nonsensical term up in the first place? I have no problem with acrylic itself but I do have a big problem with misrepresenting something and creating some kind of weird ambiguity over the relationship between the two fabrics. I have the same problem with the nebulous term "fleece" when applied to the current crop of synthetic fabrics...last I knew, fleece came from sheeps.

Wandering slightly off topic, though, I would think that by now there would be some new development in the fabric world that would have the cost factor of acrylic but would have improved characteristics...like not bursting into flame.

Remember...there is always PV which is sort of the quality and cost compromise between wool and acrylic.

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AA