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Silks Company Pivots From Making Jockey Gear To Surgical Masks


Bloodline Products, which has made its name producing jockey silks, helmet covers, and racing-themed apparel, is revamping its business to aid in the fight against coronavirus. Business owner Adiclere Evans told The Blood-Horse that seamstresses in Del Mar, Central Kentucky, and Georgia are hard at work producing two types of surgical masks to offset a nationwide shortage in personal protective equipment for doctors and nurses.

Evans said her company has patterns developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and is working with two senators to fast track approval, ensuring the masks can be used by hospitals. (Some homemade masks have been discarded because they aren’t made to federal guidelines.) Bloodline is making a pleated surgical mask and a filtered mask that is the equivalent of a N95 filtering mask using approved filter materials.

Evans estimates her team can make between 6,000 and 12,000 masks per week and they are also working with patterns to do surgical gowns and protective face shields.

There are costs to the start-up however, and Evans has set up a Go Fund Me page to allow the racing public to help the company get started.

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