User talk:Pentane5

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Glad you're here! Greatedits¹ _{(I hope so | If not, let me know)} 23:32, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

Please be conservative in what you tag as Minor edits. See Help:Minor edit. David notMD (talk) 21:27, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

I've been watching your contributions, thank you. You appear to know what you are talking about so I thought I'd ask you this ---

There is a pic on the article, perporting to show a viscose spinning machine from 1901. The device is in the British Museum according to the photo details. To me, it appears to be a cheese winder, rather than a spinning machine. Do you have any thoughts? Thanks - Walter Ego 16:57, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words!

I really wish the pic came with just a little more detail. The pic's claim didn't seem implausible so I hunted around and found a Getty Images picture of a matching device https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/viscose-rayon-is-regenerated-cellulose-originally-based-on-news-photo/90776509 with a nice caption that seems to verify. Would be nice to go the British Museum and verify first-hand though. Pentane5 (talk) 17:22, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Without question the same machine type, and well done for finding it. I'm not convinced it's a spinning device though, as I can't figure how spinnerets figure in it !!! Walter Ego 18:47, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Also on rayon, you have deleted the mention of sabra silk and cactus silk. Please read the sources. Fabrics sold under those names are not made from sabra nor cactus fibre, they are plain and simple Rayon, usually made in France. I think it is important to keep the mention. Otherwise people might mistakenly think that cactus silk is actually made from cactus fibre.Megustalastrufas (talk) 10:28, 30 November 2025 (UTC)