The population of coloured textile fibres on outdoor surfaces

The population, transfer and persistence of fibres on the skin of living subjects

“…The lengths of any recovered target fibres were estimated by comparison with a millimetre scale under a search microscope [9].…”

“…Likewise, numerous 'background' fibre population studies have been performed on a variety of substrates [2,[4][5][6][7][8][9] which provide data useful in the assessment of the significance of matching fibres. Again, to the authors' knowledge, no such data exists relating to the skin of live human subjects, which would undoubtedly compliment any obtained from a transfer and persistence study of this substrate.…”

The prevalence of two ‘commonly’ encountered synthetic target fibres within a large urban environment

“…In addition, both target fibres types are commonly encountered (in the generic sense) in casework and have been shown to be the most frequently encountered synthetic fibres in fibre population studies [4,24,25].…”

The European Fibres Group (EFG) 1993?2002: "Understanding and improving the evidential value of fibres"

“…There will always be room for more sheddability/retention studies [8,9,10,11,12,13], target fibre projects [14,15,16,17,18,19] and population studies [20,21,22,23,24] as long as garments, target fibres and areas studied are selected with care and are therefore relevant. Target fibre studies are unfortunately very time consuming and individual laboratories generally do not have the capacity to carry them out.…”