"RUBBERIZED HORSEHAIR" Topic

Either on this site or another wargame site, I have read that rubberized horsehair is hard to find. I have seen great trees and hedges made with the stuff.

I did a Google search and came up with:

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This appears to be an upholstery supply site.

It is three feet wide and they say 3/4" thick. It is sold by the foot. It is $8.00 USD per foot. I ordered two. I think I ordered it on Friday and it arrived here in Ohio from San Francisco today.

Mine is only about 1/2' thick. They say it can get compressed in putting it in the mailing package. Maybe I can stretch it out.

There is a net backing which it seems peels off easily enough.

The web site desribes it as coconut hair (coir fiber) and hog bristle, garnetted (whatever that means) and impregnated with synthetic rubber latex.

Is this really what everytone means by rubberized horsehair? Where is the horsehair? Or is rubberized horsehair just a name?

At any rate, it looks like I expected and will hopefully do the job.

Tom

The original deal really was horsehair, but has become decidedly rare as it's not really used much in the upholstery business any more. If you can find a supplier of materials for vintage car restoration, they may well have it. Your link looks much more dense than real rubberised horsehair, but you may be able to loosen it up with a bit of rough handling.

I took apart a 50 year old suite and got loads of horsehair. Wife 1 took some to repair dining room chairs but there's still plenty to really go to town on bocage.

We've been over this before. A few times. Find a custom auto upholstery shop. Not sure about vintage (although if you can find a place that does old Mercedes and Jags, they can probably help), but definitely if it's a place that does classic US cars, low riders, or basically anything that's *bleep -ed out, you should be in business.

You won't find as many in Ohio as in SoCal maybe, but if you call and the phone is answered, "Si?", you're good to go. We do have "unusual" upholstery shops out here; this one is down on the border, in National City (south of San Diego):

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Allen

is the stuff really blue? Are you going to have to dye it first?

"Old school" rubberized horsehair is black.

Yes, Rdfraf, it is blue. Not quite as light or bright as on the website. I intend to try spray painting it. It will be covered with flocking, so hopefully it works.

As I mentioned above it came pretty conmpressed. It does easily stretch out though.

I hope this was not a mistake!!

Tom

It is also used for industrial packing of heavy items in wooden crates, opened my share of said crates and yanked out sheets of that material so as to inspect the packed material before signing off shipping documents and confirmation of sales. Material used in that mode was a burnt orange typically, dont recall that it was "rubberized" but there you have it.