This is a heating mantle used for heating up round bottom flasks glassware. It's a weaved coil basket made of fiberglass with a heating element hidden inside the coiled tube. I'm curious what kind of weaving they've used to hold it in place? Does the technique look familiar or have a name?
This is part of a heating mantle used for holding glass round bottom flasks. It appears to have the heating element hidden inside a coiled fiberglass tube. The weaving (or stitching?) holding the coil in place is also using fibreglass thread. Would anyone here recognise what type of weave pattern has been used to hold the coiled tube together? I'm guessing they've used this pattern to create some spacing between each row of coil. Unsure why commercial heating mantles typically use this pattern or what it is called.