@beka_valentine foam is really, really cheap (at industrial scale, anyway); intuitively we'd expect fabric to be less so. but we're guessing.

@beka_valentine fabric sucked in humid environments tbh. nothing like wet dog smell in your expensive electronics.

@beka_valentine i was talking to my mother the other day and she mentioned that in the 60s there was this mania for everything new and plastic. old things, materials, methods were deeply unfashionable.

I was reminded of this just now while watching a Vintage Filmmaker video about a Bell and Howell camera, where he opens the case and its made like a case for a musical instrument, lined with form-fitting green felt

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Maybe fabric is more complex to form?

With foam, you can basically use a hot wire or similar to cut shapes.