マジックテープ (商標”Magic Tape”, “Velcro”, 一般名詞 hook-and-loop fastener、日本語は面ファスナー) は、日本のオナモミのような”burdock”の実にヒントを得て1941年にスイスのde Mestralによって発明されたもので、biomimetics 生物模倣 製品の最初期のものと言っていいでしょう。アイデアを織物業者に持ち込んでも最初はけなされて、実用化までに10年かかったとのことです。10年辛抱です！
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hook-and-loop_fastener から
The original hook-and-loop fastener was conceived in 1941 by Swiss engineer George de Mestral. The idea came to him one day after returning from a hunting trip with his dog in the Alps. He took a close look at the burs of burdock that kept sticking to his clothes and his dog’s fur. He examined them under a microscope, and noted their hundreds of “hooks” that caught on anything with a loop, such as clothing, animal fur, or hair. He saw the possibility of binding two materials reversibly in a simple fashion if he could figure out how to duplicate the hooks and loops.
fastener 留めるもの ファスナー
conceive 想像する、考える コン「シー」ヴ
bur 「いが」「いがのようにひっつくもの」
burdock ゴボウ
fur 毛皮 ファー
figure out 考え出す （会話でよく使うので、使えるようになってください）
De Mestral’s proposal was initially panned by industry leaders when he took his idea to Lyon, which was then a center of weaving. He did manage to gain the assistance of one weaver, who produced two cotton strips based on De Mestral’s designs. However, the cotton frayed and wore out in a relatively short period of time.
panned 酷評された panはフライパンのような皿状の容器の他に、「酷評する」という意味があります
weave 織る ウィーヴ
fray （名）喧嘩 （動）布の端がほぐれる、神経をすり減らす フレイ
ware out 擦り切れる
As a result, De Mestral began to explore the use of synthetic fibers, believing that they would provide a more resilient product. De Mestral eventually selected nylon, on the reasoning that it does not easily fray or attract mold, is non-biodegradable, and could be produced in threads of varying thickness. Nylon had only recently been invented, and through trial and error de Mestral eventually discovered that, when sewn under hot infrared light, nylon forms small hook shapes.
sewn ソウンは sew ソウ (縫う）の過去分詞です。赤外線を当てながら縫うと鈎（かぎ、hook、ひっかかり）ができるのは面白いですね。でも下記を見るとそれは使わなかった？ 最後に赤外線を当てて先端を鈎状にした？
However, he had yet to figure out a way to mechanize the process and to make the looped side.
Next he found that nylon thread, when woven in loops and heat-treated, retains its shape and is resilient; however, the loops had to be cut in just the right spot so that they could be fastened and unfastened many times. On the verge of giving up, a new idea came to him. He bought a pair of shears and trimmed the tops off the loops, thus creating hooks that would match up perfectly with the loops in the pile.
thread 糸、ネジ山
string 紐（ひも）
woven は weaveの過去分詞 織った
resilient 耐久力のある レ「ジ」リエント で日本語になっていますね。
on the verge of ～の瀬戸際で (in, atもありますが、weblio共起表現では圧倒的にonが多いです）
verge は 際（きわ）、縁（ふち）
a pair of shears 植木ばさみ
Mechanizing the process of weaving the hooks took eight years, and it took another year to create the loom that trimmed the loops after weaving them. In all, it took ten years to create a mechanized process that worked.
loom 織り機 ルーム
mechanized process that worked ちゃんと動く機械化工程 「メ」カナイズド