Cuprama
Cuprama is a term for a cellulose- based copper staple fiber that is used, among other things, for suit and clothing fabrics and is available as knitwear.
The fiber is fine-wool, merino-like with a matt pearlescent luster. The first inexpensive and artificial "silk stockings" were made with it in the 1930s. Underwear was also made with this fiber. The term cuprama panties is known from the 1950s .
The German company Bayer Dormagen owned the patent on the regenerated cellulose fibers produced since 1934 under the brand name Cuprama®, also known as "synthetic wool". Cuprama is often mixed with cotton fibers.
Individual evidence
- ^ Mark Alger: Polymer Science Dictionary. Springer, 2017, ISBN 978-9-402-40893-5 , p. 175.