Mr. EISENBERG. No; within unmercerized cotton.
Mr. STOMBAUGH. This would depend on the quality of the cotton and the
length of the cotton also.
Mr. EISENBERG. But I mean as samples come across your desk in your
office, or as you read about them in books, is there a great variation
in twist or a small variation?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. It depends--there is a small variation but this would
depend on the type of cotton. There are different types of cotton, and
each is determined from the length of the individual cotton fiber.
Mr. EISENBERG. Could you tell what kind of cotton you were dealing with
in the blanket?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. No; because here we are not dealing with a full-length
cotton fiber. We are dealing with a fragment of a single fiber.
Mr. EISENBERG. Now, could you determine whether there was a variation
in the twist of the cotton fibers within the blanket itself as there
was, you say, in the diameter of the viscose fibers?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. The twist seemed to coincide with the twist found in the
cotton from the blanket.
Mr. EISENBERG. Yes. But looking just to the blanket now for a second,
you said the brown viscose or the viscose generally in the blanket
itself varied as to diameter. Did the cotton in the blanket vary within
itself as to twist or was the cotton of a fairly uniform twist?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. No; it was fairly uniform twist.
Mr. EISENBERG. And you said the fibers you found, the green cotton
fibers you found, in the bag were the same twist as the twist of the
cottons which composed the blanket?
Mr. STOMBAUGH. That is correct.
Mr. EISENBERG. And just to tie this into the questions I was asking a
few seconds ago, would this degree of twist be significant, that is
can you determine under the microscope 4 different kinds of degrees
of twist or 20--how many different degrees of twist can you determine
under a microscope, just approximately?