Paul,as I remember it?...Granito, invented the fast cloth, and Simonis copied it.
We had the first table recovered with the equivalent of 760.had a big money match/exhibition scheduled....two great money players...
After just a couple of games....they called off the match.
Then the manufacturers raised back up the wool to nylon ratio and came up with 860, and now everyone without a stroke (me) could now draw the ball the length of the table.
As too shaving the cloth...the ends are on the bottom if it is installed correctly ( green side up,as in laying turf...lol) the loops are on the playing surface.
Googling fast cloth for pool...lots of Chinese companies are listed.

But it could be chineses clone cloth as it lasts longer at half the price but its slippery as hell.

There used to be a 100% worsted wool cloth back in the late 60's and early 70's called Ironweave if I remember correctly. The stuff makes 860 look like nap cloth and it wears MUCH slower than any other cloth that I have played. We used to have it an old 9ft. Vitale table at the Chattanooga Billiards Club downtown in the mid / late 80's.

Eric

That could very well be the cloth that I shot on that was easy to shoot extreme draw. It was fun.

That could very well be the cloth that I shot on that was easy to shoot extreme draw. It was fun.

I asked the owners what this cloth is they had installed here and its called "Championship edition 360." (probably Chinese but then everthing is Chinese now) They like it because it wears much longer than regular Simonis but is still good quality. It has a very tight weave and probably has acrylic mixed into the wool... thats what makes it so fast! Its great to play on because you need very little spin to get around the table, but its very difficult to stun the QB so you wind up going to the rail and back a lot. Usually I wind up going past my shape for the first couple of games... it takes a while to adjust.

I fancy the faktory failed – and I figure that a deficiency in the fraktion of fine teflon in the fabrik weft iz the flaw.
I fear that fleet felts are the fashion – but this fad iz fraught.
If firms are fond of foisting fast formulas for fooling feeble folk then I foresee a fiasco in the future.
Firstly, I favour fine fleece in the fibres for fixing friktion – forsaking familiar flannel iz a fallacy.
For I wouldn’t fit a fluffy furl of flimsy flock even if the fee were free.
madMac.

Is today the letter "F" day on Sesame Street and I missed it?