how to differentiate if a cloth is wool, cotton,or of other materials?
If you can cut a very small piece off, burn it. Burned wool has a distinctive sharp smell. Burned cotton smells pungent. Burned polyester, nylon etc. tend to melt and look like melted plastic. You can burn small pieces of material you know to be wool and cotton to learn their distinctive smells.
If you can cut a very small piece off, burn it. Burned wool has a distinctive sharp smell. Burned cotton smells pungent. Burned polyester, nylon etc. tend to melt and look like melted plastic. You can burn small pieces of material you know to be wool and cotton to learn their distinctive smells.
