Grass seed catching fasteners would be another alternative.

There's no hook on them at all. One side has loops and the other is just fuzzy stuff that 'catches' the loops. I checked the shoes I'm wearing just after my previous post. I hate the stuff but it serves its purpose. The only shoes I can wear have it, unfortunately.

Why doesn't Velcro make a fortune by licensing the use of the word to people who make similar products? How is anyone supposed to know whether it's Velcro or an imitation, or does Velcro only sell it for use in home sewing?

According to wiki Velcro is from velour (French for velvet) and crochet (French for hook), so someone could do a knock-off of that and take different parts of the French, or English words, then hope that takes over as the generic term...

 

Velchet? Kinda similar the sound of pulling velcro apart..

 

Hookour? Bit risky...

 

You could get a bit more simple and literal - it's a strip of sticky rippy stuff, so... Sticki-Rip™ for short

Velcro are desperately trying to avoid it becoming a generic term. Like Xerox became when people used photocopiers. Or Claytons. Or Hoover. Or Scotch tape. Or Ugg boots (which was generic before some US Corporation tried to copyright an Australian invention).

It's so generic already that I think Velcro have lost the batlte... but that won't stop Velcro from attempting a stable-door closure approach.

 

Alternative name - touch fasteners is better (in my view, anyway!) than hook-and-loop.

 

I very much like the Sticki-Rip idea.

ooh  ooh      please Miss....I said touch fasteners.

 

Is there a prize?

 

I, too, like Sticki-Rip

self-fastening is easy to use