Flocking
Flocked
christmas trees
Flocked Christmas Trees ROCK! When it comes to Christmas trees, there is no better looking tree, right out of a winter tale, than a flocked Christmas tree.
Flocking
Flocked Christmas Trees ROCK! When it comes to Christmas trees, there is no better looking tree, right out of a winter tale, than a flocked Christmas tree.
Adorning a tree with artificial snow spraying a Christmas trees with a mixture of adhesive and tiny fibers to a surface to satisfy our longing for a white Christmas. Typical flocking recipe includes paper pulp as fiber, corn starch as adhesive, and a flame retardant. There’s something beautiful and nostalgic about a well professionally flocked tree. Flocking is mostly done in white but can be done in color or combination.
1929 issue of Popular Mechanics recommends varnish, corn starch, and flakes of the silicate mineral mica.Flocking it really caught on in the late 1950s along with aluminum trees and other glitzy Christmas Decorations. General Mills marketed Snow -Flok home kits, to be applied using a gun that attached to a vacuum cleaner.
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