How is flannel made?
Moment Of Um
Lemonada Media
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Flannel is a soft, comfy fabric used to make shirts, cozy winter bed sheets and all kinds of other stuff. But how is it made? We asked fabric expert Susan Brown to help us find the answer.
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| 0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um. |
| 0:04.4 | Moment of um. |
| 0:09.6 | Moment of um comes to you from APM studios. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm Anna Goldfield. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm working on the first song of my most ambitious project yet, |
| 0:23.7 | Fabric, the musical. |
| 0:25.7 | It's a laugh till you cry, |
| 0:27.2 | soon to be Tony award-winning musical all about. |
| 0:30.4 | You guessed it, fabric. Picture this. |
| 0:34.0 | We open on a lonely clerk in a New York fabric store |
| 0:38.0 | who finds his passion in sewing custom suits out of leftover fabric scraps. |
| 0:42.0 | After a chance encounter, skyrockets to fame, but |
| 0:46.3 | things don't quite go the way he expected and he learns a lot about himself and |
| 0:51.8 | about love along the way. Here, listen to this. It's the song where he's rummaging |
| 0:57.0 | through the bin to find his favorite fabric flannel. |
| 1:00.0 | I could always use some more of a velvet or velour or a cord to make a dashing jacket. |
| 1:07.0 | Some linen or organza for a trouser leg bonanza, a polyester fabric simply will not hack it. |
| 1:14.8 | I could start a TV channel just to share my love of flannel. |
| 1:18.6 | It's made with... |
| 1:20.4 | yum, it's a soft and fuzzy that... |
| 1:25.0 | Oh, no. I don't know anything about flannel. And my friend Phoebe was wondering too, how is flannel made? I asked |
| 1:36.6 | cloth expert Susan Brown to help me and Phoebe out. |
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