WHAT
IS WOOL?
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Wool
= one fibre, the lengths vary, it is scaly under the microscope like human
hair.
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The
raw fleece is an organisation of single filaments, mixed up with shit,
strands of grass. Marked in places with blue identification dye.
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The
fleece is carded and combed, the filaments sub-grouped into more ordered
fibre masses for the spinner.
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The
spinner uses a wheel to wind the yarn from fibre masses, teased into manageable
units by two fingers.
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The
strength of the yarn depends on the ply, namely how many single filaments
are united in even strands.
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Once
the wool is spun it can be dyed. Wool dyes well, it sucks up liquid colour
like a dream.
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Our
best knitters are the ones who manage to combine the functions of each
garment... disguise, face-framing, symbolic circle growing... with good
colour/yarn combinations and an eye for detail.
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