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
