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1 Wool Yield
Raw wool in the greasy state contains a great amount of extraneous dirt and grease. Before wool is made into yarn, the dirt and a large proportion of the grease or fat is removed by washing, preceded sometimes by a shaking or dusting operation which shakes out loose dirt. The yield of clean wool varies with the locality where the sheep have been reared, and may be from 45 per cent to 75 per cent of the greasy weight. -
2 Wool-And-Cotton Flannel
Fabric used as a substitute for all-wool flannel and made from mixture yarns composed of wool and cotton; in plain and twill weaves. There are numerous qualities and the percentage of wool varies with the price of the cloth.Dictionary of the English textile terms > Wool-And-Cotton Flannel
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3 wool
[wul] noun, adjective(of) the soft hair of sheep and some other animals, often made into yarn etc for knitting or into fabric for making clothes etc:صوفa wool blanket.
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4 wool
قُمَاشٌ صُوفيّ \ flannel: soft woollen or cotton cloth: flannel trousers. wool: woven cloth made from the soft hair of sheep. -
5 wool
صُوف \ wool: the soft hair of sheep; thread or woven cloth made from this hair. -
6 Down Wool Yarns
A term to distinguish the worsted yarns made from wool grown in the South of England, and the finest of which is Southdown. The yarns are strong, but rather short in staple, and used for Meltons billiard cloth. West of England cloth, etc. Counts vary from 4/12's to 4/24's and up to 2/24's. Such down wools as those from Norfolk, Sussex, Oxford and Shropshire are chiefly used for hosiery yarns for hard-knitting, fingering and for crewel yarns. -
7 Armure Wool Fabric
Made in wide widths for use as dresses, coats, etc., good quality yarns, 72-ends, 68 picks per inch. The warp is usually end and end mohair and worsted, two-fold yarns, such as 2 / 60's or 2 / 40's - The weft is single worsted 26's to 32's. Other qualities are made from one kind of warp, but in right and reverse twist, and up to about loo-ends per inch. Cotton weft is used in the cheapest cloths, about 48's yarn dyed black. The photograph shows a typical wool Armure fabric made in a fancy rep weave 84 X 68, 2 / 60's botany / 30's botany. A heavy cloth is also termed "Armure", used for drapery and curtains, woven with brocade figuring on the armure weave ground, and all-wool yarns
Dictionary of the English textile terms > Armure Wool Fabric
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8 Artificial Wool
Is really a recovered waste product, and has grown to an important branch of the textile industry. A large quantity of cheap suits are made from these yarns, of which there arc several varieties, known as mungo, shoddy, extract wool, etc. The various wool wastes which are obtained from rags and waste containing wool, cotton or other fibres are so treated that the vegetable fibres are destroyed by chemical means. The animal fibres remaining are respun into yarns. The term is wrongly applied because the fibre is actually wool, although recovered (see also under Mungo, Shoddy, Extract Wool). The term is also given to a rayon fibre manufactured in Italy and sold as "Snia-fil". The Wool Textile Delegation should give a definite ruling on materials such as this which have no wool in their make-up (see Wool Substitutes) -
9 Blending Wool
After the materials have been well opened and cleansed, a large square bed of one material or colour (say 12-ft. X 12-ft., 6-in. to 9-in. thick), is made on the floor, then a bed of the second element in the mixing is spread over the preceding one, and so on. Each layer is levelled by beating with sticks; and oil is usually distributed by a rose spout as evenly as possible, according to requirements, on the layers. Oiling is, however, better done by a spraying apparatus attached to the teazer. No oil must come on cotton in a blend, but remanufactured products require more oil than wool. Scotch manufacturers usually put on 1-lb. oil to 5-lb. wool. There is little doubt that this proportion is excessive and militates against good results, but bad customs die hard. Dyed wool being harsher than undyed wool needs more oil. When the pile of layers reaches a convenient height (say 6 feet), it is broken down in vertical slices, shaken, and put through the teazer to mix thoroughly. Improved methods of blending wool are now being adopted, principally consisting of air trunk conveyers (see Blending Wool, Modem System) -
10 Shetland Wool
A very fine and lustrous wool from the Shetland sheep, in white, grey or brown and is one of the most expensive wools. The wool is scoured and spun by hand, then treated with sulphur fumes and made up into hosiery, underwear, fine shawls, and crochet work. The wool is an undergrowth found under the longer hairy wool and is not shorn but pulled by hand. It is very soft and silky, of medium length and felts well. The 1938 crop was about 150,000-lb. Only a small proportion of this weight is really fine. Hand-spun yarns are produced from the finest of this wool which give 30,000 to 40,000 yards to the pound. -
11 Slipe Wool
The wool obtained from the skins of slaughtered sheep by treatment with lime. Through contact with the lime, which penetrates the fibre, wool treated by this means is harsh in handle and grey and dull in colour, while the operation of washing is made much more difficult and expensive. Lime is only sparingly soluble in water, it loosens the fibre quite well, but it also dissolves substance and leaves the wool drier and less elastic. The lime also combines with the internal yolk, forming a lime soap which is exceedingly difficult to get rid of. Besides this the " slipe " usually contains free lime in the form of small pellets embedded in the staple. Some wools are put on the market containing 8 per cent of free lime, while the combined lime may amount to 2 per cent of the weight of the wool, depending on the strength of the solution and the duration of the immersion. Every pound of free lime destroys 15-lb. of soap. "Slipe" wool is largely employed in crossbred top-making for serges and hosiery of medium-class types. Low qualities are also employed in the manufacture of cheap hosiery, carpets, woollen suitings, blankets, flannels, and rugs. -
12 Ice Wool
Fine two-fold worsted knitting yarn used for shawls; in all colours. ———————— A thick, fluffy wool yarn, mostly used for knitting comforters and other fancy articles. It is made of two-fold yarns, very soft spun and has a high gloss finish. Also known as Eis wool. -
13 Non-Shrinkable Wool
Wool which has been treated with a solution of chlorine, and has been largely deprived of felting properties. Chlorinated wool has a greater affinity for dye-stuffs than natural wool and acquires a scroop. In a process only introduced in 1937, wool is made unshrinkable by steeping it for one hour at room temperature in a 2 per cent solution of sulphuryl chloride in white spirit, followed by hydro-extraction and washing out the residual sulphuric and hydrochloric acids.Dictionary of the English textile terms > Non-Shrinkable Wool
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14 Alpaca (Extract Wool)
Alpaca "wool" weft is obtained by disintegrating fabrics made of mixture materials, and may contain animal and vegetable fibres. The term is also applied to a lustre fabric woven with a cotton warp and alpaca wool weft, plain weave. When dyed in solid colours it is cross-dyed, the cotton warp being dyed before weaving, and the piece is piece-dyed after leaving the loom. The warp is usually 2/80's Egyptian. The cloth wears well and not liable to gather dust, so is used for linings and men's summer coats. A typical cloth is woven 56-in., 72 X 70, 2/80/ 28's alpaca. The true alpaca is a long, white or coloured smooth hair obtained from the Auchenia paco of South America (see Alpaca Wool)Dictionary of the English textile terms > Alpaca (Extract Wool)
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15 Kandahar Wool
Good quality carpet wool from East India. It is largely used for the native-made Indian carpets (see Indian wool) -
16 Alpaca Wool
This is obtained from the domesticated alpaca, an animal resembling the angora goat, but smaller, and is variously white, reddish-brown, or black; fibre 6 to 8-in. long, with a uniform diameter, slightly wavy, smooth and fine. It is chiefly used for ladies' dress cloths and lounge jackets. Spun into counts 28's and heavier, also 2/40's and 2/36's from the finer wools. Hosiery yarns are also made from alpaca wool, mostly soft spun in natural shades. -
17 Berlin Wool
A soft, full and brilliantly-coloured woollen yam made for hand-knitting, usually four or eight ply. Also known as German Wool, not necessarily German or Berlin make. -
18 Botany Wool Cloth
A fabric during the early 19th century, made of fine botany wool yarns, in a herringbone twill weave, 25-in. wide, for ladies' dresses. -
19 Hamburg Wool
A term denoting embroidery wool finished with a gloss. Usually four-fold, but also made up to twelve-fold. Dyed in brilliant colours and spun from the finest German worsted. -
20 Lady Betty's Wool
Very fine wool yarn, spun from the Leicester fleece and used solely in the early 19th century for knitting shawls and the like. It was made single and up to six-fold.
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