The clothes-boys were looking for
stray tencels. They’d been riding through the forest all day
on their trusty steeds. Now it was getting late – time to
make a campfire and hit the hay. Well there weren’t no hay in
the forest, so they’d have to hit the pine needles
instead.
Before they hit the pine needles they
passed around the whiskey. They meant to go to sleep, but started
telling stories about rustling the neighbors tencels and branding
them as their own. After way too much whiskey, they decided to
discuss a strategy for finding the stray tencels – provided
some other clothes-boys hadn’t already rustled them.
One of the clothes-boys said,
“If I were a tencel, I’d head to Tencel Town.”
That got the others started. “Tencel Town, I never heared of
any Tencel Town.” “Whad’ya suppose Tencel Town is
like?” And they went on and on and on and on and on ….
Finally, the geek clothes-boy couldn’t stand it any longer
and pulled out his laptop and did a search for Tencel Town.
The first article informed him that
Acordis is the talk of Tencel Town. Apparently Acordis developed
tencel in 1988. The clothes-boy figured that meant they started
raising tencels in 1988, certainly tencels were around long before
1988 and they just grew – didn’t they. What the
clothes-boy knew for sure was that if the tencels had fled to
Tencel Town, they probably weren’t talking favorably about
Acordis, who was probably just another infamous tencel
rustler.
The clothes-boy also found several
companies selling clothes made from the hides of tencels –
REI, Cotton Clothing Company, LL Bean, Moon Bow Tropics, and many
others. Of course he’d have to search much deeper for the
best quality (of clothing and tencel) and the best
price.
But, the clothes-boy couldn’t
find anything more about where Tencel Town was located. So, he went
to Acordis’ home page to find out more about why they were
the talk of Tencel Town. He found that tencels are also called
lyocells. And he found out that tencels have a minimal impact on
the environment – but he already knew that. And he found
somewhere that there were so many people making clothes from
tencels that they were probably in more danger from the clothes
makers than from rustlers or Acordis himself.
Just as Acordis could be found at
www.Acordis.com, lyocell could
be found at www.Lyocell.com
– Hanil’s home page – must be another tencel
rancher/rustler like Acordis. There, the clothes-boy saw that
lyocells were natural pulps harvested from managed forests. Well
they must have meant pups rather than pulps. And tencels
weren’t harvested, mother tencels had baby tencels or pups or
togies. But, the clothes-boy knew all about managed forests, after
all that was his job, to manage the tencels in the forest, except
when he was hunting for strays.
One more search, and the geek
clothes-boy found the tencel FAQ at www.ecotex.com. There he found that
tencel is a wood pulp – another typo for pup. Well he knew
that. Why else was he in the woods searching for them. It was
getting too late to do any more searching, besides his battery was
dying.
In the morning the clothes-boys all
woke up with hangovers from too much whiskey the night before. They
all had also had dreams of Tencel Town. They argued for a while
about which way Tencel Town was from them. Each of them knew which
way it was from their dream, and each of the four of them said it
was in a different direction. Finally they decided to just spend
the day sleeping off their hangovers. For all they knew, the
tencels had already gone home dragging their tails behind them.
Book 5 My World of Clothes
Written by Dale Stubbart
Blessed by Terry Stubbart
