[Fictionary] Selcouth Results

[lindafowens at netzero.com]

Ranjit, Do they look or sound different from vertical corduroy?  Linda
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From: Ranjit Bhatnagar <ranjit at moonmilk.com>
To: fictionary <fictionary at swarpa.net>
Subject: Re: [Fictionary] Selcouth Results
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 10:14:15 -0800

My parents just gave me some corduroy pants where the cords run horizontally around the pants instead of up and down. I said that it must have been very expensive to set up a production line to weave horizontal corduroy, but nobody appreciated my joke. 

On Monday, September 16, 2013, Fran Poodry wrote:
Corduroy and similar fabrics do have directionality, called "nap." Rub your hand one direction along (not across) the cords and they seem to smooth down a bit, rub the other way and they fluff up a bit. It is similar to (but less dramatic than) rubbing a cat "the wrong way" and making its fur stand up, or rubbing a cat the way its hair naturally goes.This is observable on velvet and even suede. But not so much on "crushed velvet" in which the nap is all smooshed down willy-nilly for a different visual effect.-Fran


On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Nicolas Ward <ultranurd at gmail.com> wrote:

Ranjit (3 + 0)

selcouth, n. A corded velveteen fabric distinguished from corduroy in
that the cords run from bottom to top rather than top to bottom.

Elliot 2 "Are cords in corduroy *signed*? I had no idea. Inspired by SILK?"
Jim 1

Hutch: "I'm pretty sure that corduroy doesn't have any 'directionality' to it?"
Pierre: "Turnabout is fair play."

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