Archive for March, 2009

Synthetic Fibres in the Sailing World

Did you realise that the first artificial fibre, artificial silk, later known as viscose and now called rayon, was created in 1799 - before the Battle of Trafalgar? However, since this fibre is derived from wood cellulose, it doesn’t count as a synthetic.
Synthetic fibres consist of man-made polymers - very long molecules with a repeating [...]