npub1grx4wzqldf8clxusxpz78adjcukkqvdkhf8amsdhr6sy3ctuu2fqvsuxfe (npub1grx…uxfe) I never studied traditional textiles (it’s its own separate discipline outside of material science) but I from other woven fiber knowledge I have, I can speculate.
If the curtain was directly blasted for years, my first inclination would be the damp/dry cycles the fabric would have went through. The expanding-contracting cycles might have disentangled the individual cotton fibers in the threads.
Another possibility is that if that sheet of curtain was significantly more damp than the others for long periods of time, the water alone could have had a chance to unravel the threads.
One more extreme scenario could be that the AC air might’ve introduced more bacteria, mold spores etc, some of which could be capable of degrading cotton fibers.
Of course I thought of one more unpleasant mechanism, which is the water on the curtain dissolving CO2, thus becoming acidic and eating through the textile. Though I think this would take more humidity and CO2 concentration than what you would have in an everyday AC’d room.
So yeah, I’d say AC air blasting into a cotton curtain degrading it is plausible.
CynAq 🤘 /
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2023-09-09 11:39:13
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