I’ve learned a lot since starting to sew, but I think the most important thing is this: it is impossible to predict how much of a magnet for cat hair a fabric will be, even if you can feel the fabric. ‘Field testing’ (or should that be ‘felid testing’?) is the only way.

@bsag LOL. "Felid testing"!

@Miraz It was an accidental typo initially but it made me chuckle.

@cygnoir Hehe 😁. I’m sometimes tempted to smuggle in a little bag of cat hair to try out fabrics, but that would be naughty! It’s baffling though: for example, most denim is pretty hair resistant, but the denim I made my most recent pair of jeans from collects cat hair like a lint roller. Meanwhile, a slubbly, textured silk noile that I expected to magnetically attract hair practically repels it. 🤷‍♀️

@bsag The same applies to dog hairs, and I agree, it is a mystery. I do wonder whether electrostatic properties might be involved.

@jeremycherfas Could be, but if so I don’t know why two fabrics with the same fibre composition would differ. One of science’s great mysteries!

@bsag Scads of PhDs to be gained.

@jeremycherfas And, no doubt, an Ig Nobel Prize.

@bsag No doubt.