You can’t spin thread from it since the fibers are too short.
But you can use lint for felting.
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One use for lint is as a fire starter.
You can just use it as is and light it and it works great.
Or you can soak the lint with Vaseline, then store a small bunch of it into a sandwich Ziploc bag and keep it for emergencies or camping.
Because it's so good as a fire starter ... always check your dryer for excessive accumulation.
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Lint is made of very short fibers. Yarn is held together by friction and tangling between the fibers; if they're too short, it won't hold together. So if you tried to spin lint into a yarn, it would probably just break apart.
Lint makes a great firestarter
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The fibers are too short, but you could probably make a neat paper out of it.
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I remember reading about someone who tried that once. He wasn't able to spin thread from the lint.
If I remember correctly, the fibers were too short and frayed to form into threads.
I use mine as firestarter at barbecues- ot did, back when summer still had rain in my area (the only time of year when it gets nice enough to bbq), now there’s a yearly burn ban that spans the entire season
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Dryer lint is basically microplastic if you have synthetic fibres
It does make excellent fire starter material. Add wax to it and wadd it up. Candle wax, paraffin wax, whatever. The little lint wax wads are easy to light and burn for a while.
Doesn't answer your question directly but those short lint fibers can be pushed into a toilet paper roll and made into firestarters that work at the campsite
Kind of related but would it make for good insulation in a jacket?
Well you got me curious:
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-make-clothes-out-of-dryer-lint
you would need a magic spider, and those only start to show up once you've consumed enough meth.. although if you're thinking of making clothes from dryer lint, it sounds like you've made a good start on that..
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