ceramic kilt?

[cavscout]

The company I work for manufacturers fire barrier products which incorporate a ceramic cloth.

The feel of this material is very satiny so I think the swish factor would be awesome. The material weighs a ton though. I can't imagine an 8 yard kilt in this material. A 4 or 5 yard kilt might be do-able. The other issue is comes in a white-ish silver color. I need to find out if it comes in black.

Can you imagine a flame retardent kilt. Might be somehting for the blacksmiths in the crowd

[Caradoc]

The company I work for manufacturers fire barrier products which incorporate a ceramic cloth.

I can't imagine wearing that stuff on/near bare skin for any length of time. The ceramic cloth I've worked with in the past had a nasty tendency to leave fiberglass-like splinters in exposed skin.

[pdcorlis]

Well, there is always Nomex...

[Kilted KT]

something about wearing a pleated vase scares me...

[cavscout]

I can't imagine wearing that stuff on/near bare skin for any length of time. The ceramic cloth I've worked with in the past had a nasty tendency to leave fiberglass-like splinters in exposed skin.

I had wondered about that also, but it felt so smooth I don't know if it is the same stuff. Even the trimed edges feel pretty soft, not prickely like I imagine fiberglass.

[Caradoc]

I had wondered about that also, but it felt so smooth I don't know if it is the same stuff. Even the trimed edges feel pretty soft, not prickely like I imagine fiberglass.

It does, at first. The more you "work" with the cloth, the more the fibers break down.

Like I said, it's been a while since I've worked with the stuff, but it felt nice and smooth until it had been folded and refolded a couple of times, and then I ended up having to use a wad of duct tape to pull splinters out of my hands.

After that, I used gloves all the time while handling it. Further research indicated I should have been using a respirator, too, as inhaling the fragments is bad for the lungs.

Can you find an MSDS on the material?

[cavscout]

Here's an information sheet on it.

The abridged version is:

Tests indicate it is not a hazard to inhalation but can irritate skin.

Guess it would have to be lined with an "under kilt", or might work as a protective apron to be worn over a kilt.

[Caradoc]

Here's an information sheet on it.

The abridged version is:

Tests indicate it is not a hazard to inhalation but can irritate skin.

Guess it would have to be lined with an "under kilt", or might work as a protective apron to be worn over a kilt.

The line "Contaminated clothing should be laundered each day" indicates to me that it wouldn't be useful for anything I do - a simple welder's apron suffices for some of the stuff.

Nomex would be nice, maybe. Or Kevlar.