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Horse Hair?
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Very likely, yes!
(Although cow, oxen and goat hair was also occasionally used).
The stuff in your picture looks like sisal string. I can't see any hair.
The term "horse hair" is often used for what is actually coconut fibre (coir)
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Once it was imported at low cost from the Empire as an agricultural by-product (practically a waste material) it became very widely used, for example in mattresses. The age will give you a clue.
It can be recognised by being uniformly ginger in colour, though you might need a microscope to be sure.
It smells different when a sample is burned.
The term "horse hair" is often used for what is actually coconut fibre (coir)
Coir - Wikipedia
Once it was imported at low cost from the Empire as an agricultural by-product (practically a waste material) it became very widely used, for example in mattresses. The age will give you a clue.
It can be recognised by being uniformly ginger in colour, though you might need a microscope to be sure.
It smells different when a sample is burned.
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Agreed, on both counts.
Anthrax can remain dormant in horse hair but reported cases of infection remain lower than one per year. Less than one per year could be zero per year. One source I have seen has said that there have been no cases for 20 years in the UK.
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