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I want to make my own glass fiber ceramic matrix composite. I could just buy glass filament, but i want it to be a form of primitive technology, that is something you could make by yourself with materials found in nature. I already learned how to purify sand into very pure silica with KOH from wood ashes and I have a furnace that can melt it. How do I form the filaments? In industry they use bushings with hundreds of nozzles, but I am sure that I could use a single larger diameter nozzle (1mm?) and adjust the spin rate of the spindle to get a decent output of fine fiber. However I need to keep viscosity of the glass in the right range by controlling temperature. Are there any resources on the internet on amateur glass fiber production that could help? Google only gives me car fender making videos