velcro

     

Velcro is a bran name of fabric hook-and-loop fasteners. It consists of two layers: a "hook" side, which is a piece of fabric covered with tiny hooks, and a "loop" side, which is covered with even smaller and "hairier" loops. When the two sides are pressed together, the hooks catch in the loops and hold the pieces together. When the layers are separated, the strips make a characteristic "ripping" sound.

Trivia about velcro

  • This trademarked brand of hook & loop fasteners is named in part for velour
  • A Swiss engineer got the idea for this from the burrs that stuck to his clothes
  • Get out the door faster in shoes that fasten using this material of tiny hooks & loops instead of laces
  • On "Late Night" David Letterman put on a suit of this material & stuck himself to a wall of it
  • In one of his bits, David Letterman stuck to a wall by wearing a suit made of this fastening material
  • The trademarked name of this hook & loop fastener is from the French for "hooked velvet"
  • For developing this nylon fastener, George de Mestral is stuck in the National Inventors Hall of Fame

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