Are dollar bills paper or cloth?
Discuss.
We call our money paper, but not many pieces of paper survive the washer or can be folded 4,000 times before the paper disintegrates. Not too many pieces of paper have 25% linen fibers in them. There now are synthetic blue and red fibers in currency "paper"; some old formulations contained silk.
But somehow thinking of dollar bills as cloth is weird. So I'm torn.
Paper or cloth?
paper or cloth?
April 8th, 2009 at 04:16 am
April 8th, 2009 at 04:29 am 1239164987
April 8th, 2009 at 05:39 am 1239169143
April 8th, 2009 at 01:52 pm 1239198779
Okay from the treasury wedsite: "The bills in this series are still printed on cotton and linen rag paper, with the traditional red and blue fibers."
Now we know! Or do we?
April 8th, 2009 at 02:56 pm 1239202590
April 8th, 2009 at 07:17 pm 1239218223
interesting y'all - I was thinking strictly on what the fibers were (linen, cotton, silk) which comprise cloth. I usually think of paper as wood pulp, but Joan brings up an interesting point - paper is made by pressing and drying the fibers together vs. cloth made by weaving and knitting.
And then something else to think about - since paper is more condensed, seems to hold a much more intricate print. Couldn't imagine a yard of intricate engraved loops.