reminds me of south park' cherokee pubic hair tampon episode

indians are already selling their hair for wigs

 

I've seen in a TV documentary. Barber shops specialised to feed off the inferiority complexes due to balding make custom made wigs and they gave them a new, fancier sounding name in german.

They do, but you have to ask do you want to wear shirt made of hair.

It is inferior to sheep wool in every aspect. More expensive, less uniform in quality, cannot be produced on industrial scale.

I would like a human hair shirt or something, but there aren't enough barbers in the world to suit me out the way I'd prefer.

As for me, my hair is long enough that you could probably do something interesting with it.

 

Oh but it can. You just need grit.

I wouldn't mind. I fetishize rationality.

Also I read about your pic but it's far, far from industrial scale yet.

Less uniform no doubt, but it has the durability and heat retention properties if you trust the websites of human hair startups.

What about cat hair shirts? I have a vision of cat herds, hundreds strong, kept for their cat wool and cat cheese

A cat's a bitch to shear, I imagine.

Compare how much wool a single sheep can produce to the amount of hair a human can produce. Humans just can't compete. Even merino wool will be dirt cheap compared to human wool with better properties. You'd need to breed humans for hundreds of years until they can produce economic amounts of hair.

 

kots have not long enough hair. This would be more in the pelt category.

Thing is, you're comparing recycling to an intended production cycle. Human hair products should be based on recycling of unwanted raw material rather than indended production of new raw material.

I doubt that you can weave human hair into a usable strand that you can weave into a fabric unless it is really long.

99% of the stuff you get from a barber will be a few cm's long, of questionable quality and unusable for fabric production.

My mum's neighbour does it every year and i don't hear any howling. Depends on the kot i suppose

 

Get the big furry cats, they have long enough hair to shear. Also you can do it with shorter fibers, its just more difficult

You made me wonder how individual hairs of ans sheep are turned into threads. But thread is always longer than a sheep's hair.

They are spun into yarn. That's why making cat yarn is difficult. Shorter hairs are more difficult to wind together

I think during WWII they collected hair to make something out of it.

What did they NOT collect in Germany to make something out of it by late war?

Yes, but humans usually get haircuts once their hair grows much longer than a cat's hair, unless you count baldcels. Not all is lost.

What is the average and median length of hair being cut off by barbers?

I'd say 3cm males 10cm females

I'd say 3cm is too short for yarn. 10cm might be enough. When you have 20cm upwards you probably get paid better when you make wigs out of it.

If you don't count in long haired women going short, I think on average males go to the barber less frequently so they will have more hair removed on average.

Okay a different approach then

This is late WWI German ersatz, it's made out of paper

But it's not just paper cut to look like clothes, it's a woven fabric made out of paper. So apparently they turned paper into mush, mush into thread etc, something like a proto-viscose process

Can't we turn hair into soft mush and then turn it into thread of desired size to turn it into yarn???

I think cellulose is way more porous than hair. So it is way easier to find chemicals that make cellulose fibers stick together than to do this with hair.

 

Why not just make paper fabric instead of hair fabric if this already exists?

What do you think about making leather from people that died ans death?

We have an endless supply of people dying from sicknesses or old age and it would be a better use of resources than burning or burying them.

I guess there's no use for paper fabric such as the ones you had during WW1, as from my understanding that literally is woven paper thread. Given that I couldn't find any mentions of "paper fabric" from WW2, the technology was probably dated by that time and turning cellulose into viscose was a better option than the paper thing at the point. I do know for a fact that late German uniforms were more viscose than wool and cotton.

 

Also, I thought paper can be turned into viscose, but its dont, so WW2 viscose was from food, not paper.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/completely-recycled-viscose-first-time

Seems that by WW2 the paper proper was only used for fake leather.

Makes me want to understand the process behind the WW1 paper textiles they made clothes from, and why it wasn't used or wasn't widespread by 1940s, but there's little comprehensible info online, as well as any accounts on how these clothes wore/felt.

Pls no bully.

Hair is a "renewable source", so it's yucky but still ethical, it's not dehumanizing like human leather.

Burying people is a perfectly fine use of resources, it feeds the Earth.

wood* not food sry