I think it’s rather to distinguish between fur as being understood from skinning the animal and using the resulting hide including the hair versus cutting the hair from the skin and receiving the single hair strands and using those strands in construction.
But just how I imagined it is meant, no idea if that is true.
The fuck is goat’s hair? Isn’t it called fur? Unless it’s specifically fur on their head?
No I don’t think so. For instance we say cat hair but they have fur. I think it’s just a weird English thing.
Usually hair is long and typically sparse on animals like us, fur is short and covers the whole body like a moose.
Horse hair is very much a thing and used for insulation. I lived in an apartment in Boston built in the 1890s that had horse-hair insulation.
I do think it’s from the mane and tail and not the fine fur of the body. But that would just be an assumption.
I think it’s rather to distinguish between fur as being understood from skinning the animal and using the resulting hide including the hair versus cutting the hair from the skin and receiving the single hair strands and using those strands in construction.
But just how I imagined it is meant, no idea if that is true.
Seems like loose goat hair with clay could be used similarly to fiberglass with resin, or steel reinforcements in cement, just a different use case.