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41 Baby Combing Wool
Short, fine staple wools, usually under 21/2-in. staple, and treated by the French comb in the manufacture of French-spun worsted yarns. -
42 Iceland Wool
Iceland wools are of a character entirely their own. Gradings are usually in three qualities, whether of whites, browns, fawns, greys or blacks. The Icelandic character is of a wiry, spiral coarse-tipped staple, and a very soft, fine staple root. In combing, these soft finer fibres are removed as noil and often command a high price owing to their remarkable softness and lightness in weight. The coarse fibres are in sliver and top form, and are often blended with other carpet tops. -
43 Bussorah Wool
Inferior carpet wool from Mesopotamia has an irregular staple. It is dirty but rather better than Bushire wool (see Persian Wool.) -
44 Chinese Wool
The wools from China vary widely in length, quality, colour and cleanliness of staple, and are used mainly for American carpets. They are all good spinning wools, but without springiness, and therefore the yam is lean and flat. Shanghai and Tientsin are the chief markets and ports of export. The wool is also sorted, graded, and washed in these towns. Kashgar wool from Chinese Turkestan is a valuable white, silky, soft -wool, transported into Russia for the manufacture of woollen cloths. Wools shipped from North China go mostly to the American market. -
45 New Zealand Wool
A high-grade crossbred wool and one of the most useful wools of commerce. It is obtained by crossing merino ewes with Lincoln or Leicester rams. It has a staple of good and regular length and is soft in handle. It is used extensively for mixing with shoddy and mungo fibres to impart bulk and spinning qualities. New Zealand wools in the main are fairly free from vegetable matter, and this gives the wools a value very often more than like qualities from other countries. Merino wool is a small part of New Zealand production, probably not more than 5 per cent. The wool is generally free from vegetable matter, but is rather "lean" in character, the quality is not equal to the better-known Australian types, while the shrinkage is fairly heavy owing more to heavy grease rather than earthy matter. -
46 Romney Marsh Wool
The sheep of Romney Marsh, Kent, produce a long wool, which is soft, full and is classed as a demi-lustre wool. The average weight of a fleece is about 81/2-lb. The wool is used mostly for dress material, it has a 7-in. staple and spins 44's to 46's quality. -
47 Buenos Ayres Wool
Wool from this district is usually of a fine nature, but dirty and burry, rather lacking in strength and elasticity of staple. It is much used by French manufacturers for worsted yams (see Argentine wool) -
48 Hampshire Down Wool
A wool somewhat similar to South Down, but has greater length and is perhaps of coarser staple. An average weight of fleece is about 51/2-lb. The wool spins to about 50's to 56's. It is of good quality, and the fibre is one of the finest of English wools, while the sheep are the largest of Down sheep.Dictionary of the English textile terms > Hampshire Down Wool
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49 Joria Wool
The best type of East Indian wool, it has a springy staple and spins into a full handle yarn and cloth (see Indian wool) -
50 Khorassan Wool
A variety of Persian wool of long, fine staple. It is the best type of Persian wools (see Persian Wool) -
51 Mushy Wool
Wool which is dry, open and badly defined in staple, and which on being combed will noil heavily, This condition of the wool is due to the absence of grease, dryness of climate and lightness of soil. -
52 Argentine Wool
Is of a good to medium quality, but contains a large amount of prickly burrs, which are difficult to remove and thus reduce its value. Grown in Argentine and also known as Buenos Aires wool. The clip is very wide in range of character and adaptability of use, and colour is from white to a dark greyish-brown. The staple varies from 11/4-in. to 4-in. Types are numerous from cross-breds to merinos. -
53 Binders Of Wool
In well-cultivated sheep the wool-hairs are usually united in " tufts " or " locks " containing a hundred or more fibres. Often several locks are connected into one large one, called a "staple," the hairs joining the locks being known as " binders." The number of hairs growing in each square inch of the sheep's skin is between 4,500 and 5,500. The binders run obliquely, crossing several staples, and it is due to this clustering that the fleece can be removed in unbroken form (Mathews) -
54 Black Face Wool
The wool of a breed of sheep, native to Scotland; it is of medium length, coarse and shaggy, and very uneven and greasy. The fleece is about 5-lb. and the staple 6-in. to 8-in. Spins 28's to 32's quality. Principally used for homespun tweeds and carpets. -
55 Broken Wool
That which has become detached, or been torn from the fleece. The wool from the neck and belly part of the fleece, it is of short staple. Also called Skirting. -
56 Carding Wool
The wool that is shorter than combing or worsted quality wools. It has greater felting properties than others with a staple up to 4 in in length. Used for woollens and can also be combed into French yarn. The carding process is a continuation of the opening and mixing of the fibres commenced in the teazer and fearnought machines. Thus carding prepares the fibres for condensing and spinning (see Woollen Carding and Worsted Carding) -
57 Cheviot Wool
Produced by a breed of sheep in South Scotland and the Highlands. It is a fine, dense and soft wool, with a 4-in. staple, spinning 46's to 50's quality. The Sutherland Cheviot is the cleanest and best. It is used for Cheviot tweeds. -
58 Cotswold Wool
This wool from Gloucestershire is of long staple, averaging 8-in., is classed as demi-lustre, is silky and spins 44's quality. -
59 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. -
60 Lincoln Wool
A lustrous and thick English wool which spins 38's to 40's yarns. An average weight of fleece is 10/12-lb. of long fibre. One of the most important of English wools as it is the longest and strongest type, having a 12-in. staple.
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