Pug hair magnets.

[Steve Ashton]

It's actually due to the nature of micro-fiber fabrics. Once hair of almost any kind comes in contact with micro-fiber fabrics they are a royal pain to get back out. It is one of the reasons micro-fiber clothing went out of favor.

You may need to abandon the micro-fiber kilt.

[Todd Bradshaw]

The down garment manufacturers blast them with ionized air after filling to get the excess fluff off the nylon surface. I don't know anything about ionized air, or where to get it, but I have a hunch that it might require getting dangerously close to a lightning bolt.

[tundramanq]

Steve, got me thinking. To make the fabric look less shiny, more natural looking and feel better, all the synthetic threads are mechanically or chemically abraded making them fuzzy like natural wool or cotton. The micro- just refers to a smaller thread fiber diameter. The easily ignited fuzziness is why all synthetics need fire retardant treatments for clothing use.

When you drive a nail into wood the wood fibers are broken and bent in the direction the nail was driven in. The nail is wedged in the wood. That is why a nail holds so well. It takes a lot of force to get back out the first time as you are breaking all the little wedges.

Same principle with the dog hair nail - it easily works it's way deeper in because the fuzz is already laid that way and only has to bend a few more ahead of its progress deeper. To extract it all the bent fuzz has to be re-bent in the opposite direction.

On the side, without the natural oils in wool or human hair "gluing" the rough cell edges down it is quite fuzzy or frizzy and will hold a huge static charge.