Wool Terms

Question 1

Wool suitable for manufacturing into apparel fabrics

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Apparel Wool

Question 2

Short and often defective wool from the belly

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Bellies

Question 3

Denotes fineness; More___ means finer wool

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Blood

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has a weak area in the staples; strong on either side

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Break

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Coarse hair found on the legs; typically the least quality

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Breech or Britch Wool

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Light colored wool free of dirt

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Bright

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Wool shorn from rams or whethers

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Buck wool

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Wool heavy in burrs and is expensive to have processed and the burrs removed

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Burry Wool

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Yellowish coloration which cannot e removed during sanitation. Though to be of bacterial origin

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Canary Stained Wool

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Removing burrs in the wool in sulfuric acid

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Carbonizing

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Color, Crimp, Brightness and sound tip of wool, makes the wool attractive

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Charecter

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Term that describes the physical color of the wool

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Color

Question 13

Manufactoring process which separates the long fibers from the short fibers that are combined into a large parallel fibers called tops

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Combing

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Wool that is large and strong enough to be combed

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Combing wool

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Refers to the amount of grease and dirt in a fleece

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Condition

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The coring of bales or bags of wool to determine the clean content and yield.

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Core testing

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Fibers that are matted together

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Cotted

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Natural waviness in the fibers

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Crimp

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wool that is darkish grey in color and lacks luster

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Dingy

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Medium staple length, too short for English Noble comb

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French combing

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Wool that is dry and lifeless without crimp due to weather or poor quality

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Frowzy

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Wool that is shorn from sheep before any processing

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Grease Wool

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Grease wool that has excessive amounts of yolk which is sticky and stiff

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Gummy

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Actual feel of the wool; pleasing to touch, soft, fineness and length

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Handle

Question 25

A 560 yard unit of wool yarn wound on a spool or rail

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Hank

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Chalky white brittle weak fiber that may be mixed in the normal fibers of a fleece. Will not take dye

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Kemp

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Refined yolk or grease wool

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Lanolin

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A tuft or group of fibers that cling naturally to each other in the wool; also known as staples

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Lock

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"full of life" springs back to normal position, very elastic, and bulky compared to weight

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Lofty

Question 30

Natural gloss or sheen-very desirable

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Luster

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Center cell area

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medulla

Question 32

fibers having more medulla-fibers are coarse and uneven and low in elasticity

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Medullated Fibers

Question 33

Short wool fibers removed in the combing process

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Noils

Question 34

Narrow staples or lock formation indicates an open fleece less density

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Pencil Locked

Question 35

Refers to the absence of dark fiber kemp or hair

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Purity

Question 36

Grease wool in its natural state before scouring

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Raw

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Actual separation of dirt, grease and vegetable matter from grease wool

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Scouring

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Solution used for scouring

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hot, mildly alkaline solution

Question 39

Short pieces of wool that result from the shearer from the clipper making a second stroke-increases the noils

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Second Cuts

Question 40

The weight raw wool loses when scoured

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Shrinkage

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freedom of the fiber from breaks and tenderness-refers to strength

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Soundness

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The length of a lock of shorn wool

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Staple

Question 43

The longest length wools within a grade

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Staple

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Wool that is weak and can break anywhere typically due to nutrition efficiency

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Tender

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The tip or weather end of the fibers that are encrusted making the wool wasty in processing

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Tippy Wool

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A continuos strand of partially manufactured wool

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Top

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The loss of fiber lost in combing due to tenderness, weakness or vegetable matter

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Wastiness

Question 48

Large amounts of shorter wools, such as noils

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Woolen

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Longer length wool fibers that have not been processed

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Worsted

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Opposite of shrinkage the percentage of clean wool after scouring

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Yield

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The combined secretion of oil and sweat in the skin

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Yolk