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Posted on: 7/29/14 4:35 PM ET
I am looking for a fabric like what is on a lint brush, but cannot find it anywhere. I thought it would be called something to the effect of a nylon directional nap fabric, but that doesn't bring up anything useful. Any tips on where or how to find this fabric or one very similar?

  
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Posted on: 7/29/14 4:54 PM ET
I found this.flocked fabric

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Posted on: 7/29/14 5:23 PM ET
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Maybe it depends on what you want it for?

If I was trying to make my own "make shift" lint brush, I think I would get some extra wide velcro and just use half of it to do that.

If instead, I wanted a nice 1940's style dress coat or maybe a 1910 to 1930 sofa or something, or wanting to make a nice teddy bear out of much better fabric than some cheaper knit fake fur, then I think I would be looking for "Wool Mohair" with a pile and set into a real woven back at more $75 per yard possibly.

If I just wanted something that maybe looked like it a bit and wash very shiny cheap and stretchy instead, for T shirt, then maybe I would be looking for something called polyester knit panne velvet.

What do you want it for in your end, intended use? Since I think that's a lint brush maybe, I don't often see that exact fabric by the yard on the bolt most times in the fabric stores
  
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Posted on: 7/30/14 1:09 AM ET
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I've looked into mohair, but it does not lay the same way as this does, unless in a ski skin application, which runs a bit more pricey than I was hoping. I am looking for a lint remover application, but on a larger scale, and have found that velcro won't work. I've also looked into Alibaba, but they want an order of around 500 yards, which is a lot more than what I want. Thanks for all your help, and any further suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I am hoping to find what you would call the way the fibers lay one directional on this type of fabric.
  
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Posted on: 7/30/14 4:43 AM ET
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Does the Alibaba site contain any key words that might help in your search for other suppliers?
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Posted on: 7/30/14 7:13 AM ET
If I was making some proto type of some kind of invention or machinery that held something like that in it, on a roller bar or such, to maybe pick up some lint or something that went through the machine or contraption, I think I would want to get it from a reliable supplier/vendor near me, in the country I was in, that spoke the same language as me. And I think I would want a 2nd good back up vendor for it too, just since if you have a flakey sole source vendor, and something goes wrong, then I think you are kind of "dead in the water" and just out of business.

I get the feeling, maybe that is what you are trying to do. In that case, I think I would look at my competitors products in the same field/product range, in the industry that the product was in, (whatever that was) and try to see who their vendors were. And I don't think I would be trying to do that with "google" just over the internet at all.

My guess (and it's just a wild one) is when the fabric for that lint brush was made, it was high pile/low melt temperature synthetic fabric and the pile maybe stood straight up, then afterwards, it may have gone through some heat process or even heated roller bar or plates, that maybe bent it down, and gave it a more directional slant to it. Sewing wise on garment fabric, they call that a fabric with a one way nap to it.

But, (that lint brush fabric) it's not sold in most normal garment fabric stores, for purposes like that. Maybe try looking up and talking to, the 3M company and products or something like that, for more "industrial materials and products", I'm not sure, but maybe they would be a good one.
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Re: Whats this fabric called and How do I find it? (posted on 7/31/14 0:37 AM ET)
Hmm, that's tough. I thought "ribbed napping fabric" or "directional nylon corduroy" might at least lead me in the right direction, but not really much.

I did see an image on Wikipedia under the word "nap" that seems similar to the fabric you are looking for. Unfortunately, the photo is just labeled "a cloth with a nap" lol! Here is the link:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nap_(textile)
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Posted on: 8/3/14 4:46 AM ET
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This one is calling it a velour in the description:
Lint Brush
Maybe there are different velours, like brushed velour or ribbed velour? I wonder if they'd have this at an upholstery fabric store?
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