This article explores the landowning farm households’ consumption of foreign and manufactured goods in hinterland northern Sweden 1770 to 1820. A set probate inventories shows that farmers this particular area – a remote but central transit for between Norwegian coast southern were part general historiography consumption. However, findings tea coffee utensils, porcelain, printed cotton, silk fa...

Abstract The article attempts to assess the possibility of using non-woven fabrics made waste fibers in cladding panels. For this purpose, woolen and polypropylene nonwovens were tested for mass per unit area, characteristic opening size, lengthwise crosswise elongation at maximum strength. Non-woven placed middle thickness cement gypsum boards subjected tests density, thermal conductivity coef...

The aim of this research was to examine the effectiveness of an enzyme in enhancing the cleaning effectiveness of woolen fabric without addition of any detergent. As a model enzyme, lipase from Pseudomonas fluoresces was immobilized onto a woolen cloth using a unique protocol that involved: chlorination of the wool, adsorbing a polyethyleneimine (PEI) spacer, adsorbing, and cross-linking with g...