Mr. Squirrel awakes from hibernation!  But did he see his shadow?

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Rocket J Squirrel
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 1:20 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: How are carpets formed ?

Carpets are formed by growing them in a suitable culture medium on
three-dimensional forms, called "scaffolds," which have been seeded with
carpet substrate cells and fibers.

Or wait -- that's how they do soft tissue engineering. Never mind.
--
Rocky J Squirrel
'84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
'74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
Bend, OR
KG6RCR

On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 09:36 -0700, John C... wrote:

> Curious George here.
>
> I have all of my carpets out of the Van
> and laying on the shop floor.
>
> And I,m wondering how VW formed all of the shapes into the carpets.
> Especially into the front carpet.
>
> Does anyone know how they did that
> or have any general insites into how it's done?
>
> Heat and a form press I'm a guessin' ?
>
> It would be great to be able to emulate what the factory has done.
> I have some silver gray carpet that would be perfect in my Vanagon.
>
> Can we do this at home ???  ;o)
>
> Thanks,
> JC...