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 Blog 5- Cotton and Bamboo Videos  Fiber Identification by burning: ii. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2RyE7i0sCk - cotton- burns, doesn’t melt, smells like burning paper or wood, residue: fine gray ash - Falx- burns, doesn’t melt, smells like burning paper or wood, residue: fine gray ash - Wool- burns, doesn’t melt, strongly smells of burning hair or feathers, stops burning when removed from the fire, residue: black hollow bead that can be crushed to black powder.  - Silk- burns, doesn’t melt, strongly smells of burning hair or feathers, the odor is not as strong as wool, stops burning when removed from the fire, residue: black hollow bead that can be crushed to black powder.  - Rayon- burns, doesn’t melt, smells like burning paper or wood, residue: fine gray ash - Polyester- shrinks from heat, melts, burns, can drip, smells chemical, sweet, residue: hard cream or black cored bead that cannot be crushed. - Nylon- shrinks from the heat, melts, can bur...

 Blog 4 Fabric videos  WEAVES AND KNITS  Weaving-  weaving has been around for a long time. The systems are still the same, the machines have just become faster. The machines have a warp and a weft yarn. The warp yarns are tight in the heddles, and they move up and down. Old looms have shuttles, but they now use rapiers which pass the yarn off on the middle. The rapiers can hold more yarn so that makes it faster. To create patterns weft presenter which feeds different color yarns to the rapier. For complex patterns, a jacquard attachment is needed. This is where each thread is moved up and down individually. The threading of a jacquard loom is so labor-intensive that they only load it once. Because of the invention of the machine looms textiles have become much cheaper.    Denim Manufacturing- weaving states with a sized yarn coming off of a loom beam coming off in a single layer. Then it goes over a tension bar and through drop wires which serve as stop mo...

 Product Selection Criteria For this Blog, we looked into every room and made a list of all the products we would need for the project!

Blog 3:  Research initiatives                                                  The 3 websites we looked into were the Carbon Leadership Forum, Architecture 2030, and the Health Building Network. All of these organizations are focused on making the environment a better place through focusing on the building industry. According to their website the Carbon leadership Forum, “accelerates the transformation of the building sector to radically reduce the greenhouse gas emissions attributed to materials (also known as embodied carbon) used in buildings and infrastructure.” ( Carbon Leadership Forum ) There vision is to transform and decarbonize the build environment and the building industry through things like the materials that are used. One of their slogans is “better buildings for a better planet.” ( Carbon Leadership Forum ) The website states that buildings ma...