The 350pound test monofilament.

Circumstances surrounding the textile industry have changed.

Do you mind if I pull out one of your fibers?

So now we not only have a high fiber bread, but now fiber on top of fiber.

We are developing spider silk.

To artificially produce spider silk with the help of genetically modified microbes and weave it as synthetic fiber, is our idea.

It's all around us. We just don't see it.

Cellulose is a type of carbohydrate found in plants that our body cannot break down.

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Textile News has a large following among those working in the textile industry.

And I decided to build it up.

Also last year, BMW announced this carbon fiber electric car, they said that its carbon fiber is paid for by needing fewer batteries.

And I looked at it beneath the microscope. And some of it was flat.

And Charlton Heston is made of a floating fiber, which I took out of the air.

And this is really a story about a public private solution that has really worked.

Small pulley and two strong magnets.

But what seems so slow and graceful from the outside is really more like chaos inside, because cells control their shape with a skeleton of rigid protein fibers, and those fibers are constantly falling apart.

I made the first fiber in my first experiment.

They produce six different types of silk, which is spun together into a fiber, tougher than any fiber humans have ever made.

There's Kevlar in that chair.

Spunglass, formfitting, waterproof, flameproof.

Now I'm going to mark on the toughness values for nylon fiber, bombyx or domesticated silkworm silk wool, Kevlar, and carbon fibers.

Yearned for by everyone, the German Mark flooded our little community.

Dietary fibre is good for losing weight.

Spin me a thread.

No fibers, flakes, hairs?

Then I used fibers out of my jumper, which I held and stretched.

We've come a long way, but now we have to make this polymer into fiber in order to give it a practical use.

You need to eat more fiber.

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You saw the spray going in.

We're starting to see these happening all around the world.

And this is what we see.

It's called memory cloth. Notice anything?

You've got bran, which is probably the healthiest part of the bread for us, or the fiber for us because it is just loaded with fiber, for the bran is fiber.

Last year, Volkswagen announced that by next year they'll be producing this carbon fiber plugin hybrid getting 230 miles a gallon.

It looks like earthworms.

It's a security fiber for the new Canadian 100 bill.

Here are stress strain curves generated by tensile testing five fibers made by the same spider.

Uh, no, actually. Ssa halko's retiring.

The U.S. and Europe should give us a zero percent tariff.

They're monkeys

It is made for a diet which is soft, mushy, which is reduced in fibers, which is very easily chewable and digestible.

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But once underground oil is used up, we will have nothing left to make synthetic fibers.