Okay, so maybe it’s not human hair, but it’s dark, coarse, and fibrous, and it’s the bottom surface of my box spring.
So, two questions:
- What the heck is it?
- Why use it in lieu of, well, anything else?
Neigh, it’s not human hair, it’s horse hair.
Go right to the source and ask the horse. He’ll give you the answer that you’ll endorse.
It’s called a dust cover. And it’s not horse hair.
BTW…The material is called Typar.
is it a pube?
Well, all I can find on Typar says that it’s a plastic film of some kind. So if the stuff on KK’s mattress looks like “hair”, then it’s probably horse hair, but if it looks like “a plastic dust cover”, then it’s probably Typar. How old is the box spring?
http://www.reemay.com/housewrap/hw_typar.html
http://www.clintonbedding.com/boxspec.htm
Typar is not plastic. It’s material with fibers through it to give it strength. It’s probably on the bottom of all your couches and living room chairs. Along with box springs.
Go look.
Right, I know the stuff you mean, it’s plasticky stuff, but it’s not “hair”. It couldn’t be described as “hair”.
KK says he’s got “hair” on his box spring.
And I’m getting the feeling that this thread is about to degenerate rapidly. 
I’ve never seen any ‘plasticky stuff’ on the bottom of my furniture–just the dark fibrous material. What kind of weird furniture you got there?
Wait a minute… isn’t this the mattress you bought a while ago at that yard sale from that skinny blond guy named Jeff? :eek:
Well, it doesn’t look like anything pictured in the links DDG provided (though only the last supplied any images that looked like what Typar should look like), and it does look like a mat woven, sorta, from hair.
Is Typar’s distinguishing characteristic it being a material that has fibers in it, or is it a predominantly fibrous material?
And astro, I was going to respond with a post laden with make-your-brain-bleed bad horse puns, but, sadly, I suck at that kind of thing so you lucked out.
And, ftr, I’m surprised this thread hasn’t degenerated more than it has already. 
What’s a box spring?
It’s, well, sort of a big box with interlaced springs that you put on the frame of your bed to give the mattress a supporting platform. If you just laid the mattress on the frame, it would get all saggy and fall through to the floor and be all uncomfortable and you would have wasted all that money buying a really good mattress.
The frame elevates your bed off the floor so you can store stuff under it.