Talk:Flocking (texture)

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This article is inadequate -- it gives many examples of flocking, but it never says what flocking actually is.

It does say what flocking is[edit]

"Flocking is the application of fine particles to adhesive coated surfaces." My issue is with the term "magical and special." I never saw a flocked base and thought it was magical, lol. Also, a picture would be nice.

Repetition[edit]

It seems that this article repeats itself. Could we decide which version of the description/definition is to be kept (I also loled at the 'magical' bit) and clear the other one? An t isora 16:30, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, this needs to be changed. This is an advertisement for flocking right now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.60.89.182 (talk) 02:47, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge from flocking machine[edit]

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The result was merge.

The flocking machine article is quite short and I think redundant to the "process" section already in this article, so it makes sense to me to merge them. Wizard191 (talk) 18:02, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As it's been a while with no response to this idea - I went ahead and did the merge. I included info on flocking machines into this article and did a redirect - but Im struggling to find decent sourcing for the whole thing, hence the ag. --Errant Tmorton166^(Talk) 14:22, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Removing diagram[edit]

I'm going to remove the diagram at the top of the page which shows all the fibers aligned to straight up from the surface, like velvet. This seems to be an incorrect representation of flocking, based on the text of the article and an image search (although a correct representation of velvet or grass). My apologies to user:LaurensvanLieshout. The vertical particles fit with the description "Flock material flies vertically onto the substrate attaching to previously applied glue" in the "process" section (which was the content of the "Flocking machine" article), but they don't fit the model grass which has randomly aligned particles, or the description of fake frost used on Christmas trees. Presumably 18th century flock can't have used an electrostatic process and so can't have had vertically aligned fibers either, but I'm not sure about that. Card Zero (talk) 23:53, 6 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]