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	Wool - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wool is the fibre derived from the fur of animals of the Caprinae family, principally sheep and goats, but the hair of certain species of other mammals such as alpacas and rabbits may also be called wool.
		Wool felt covers piano hammers and it is used to absorb odors and noise in heavy machinery and stereo speakers.
		The recycled wool may be mixed with raw wool, wool noil, or another fibre such as cotton to increase the average fibre length.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wool (1829 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - wool
		WOOL [wool] fiber made from the fleece of the domestic sheep.
		Wool consists of the cortex, overlapping scales (sharper and more protruding than those of hair) that may expand at their free edges causing fibers to intermesh; elasticum, the inner layer; and a core.
		Wool is warm because its fibers are nonconductors of heat and its crimp permits it to enmesh still air.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/wool_WoolProduction.asp (1167 words)

	Wool classing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wool Classing is a profession designed for the sole purpose of grading the spinning capacity or designated purpose for the wool produced.
		The weaker wools are generally sent for production of felt etc where the processing is not as extensive and harsh.
		The fleece forming the bulk of the yield is placed with other fleece wool as the main line, other pieces such as the neck, belly and skirtings (inferior wool from edges) are placed together and sold for such purposes where the shorter less inferior wools are required.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crimp_(wool) (329 words)

	Galerie Micheline Szwajcer
		Crimp's argument is important both in terms of how it challenged the painting versus photography argument of critics such as Barbara Rose, and in how it went further, to articulate a theoretical position that questioned the continued viability of painting.
		Wool's interest in opening the paintings to a wide range of associations was further expanded in this pivotal work, not only by adding to his ongoing investigation of the relationship between process and painted imagery, but also by raising the possibility of a painting that would invite an active, physical engagement with the viewer.
		Wool extended his interest in layering imagery in the roller paintings to layering meaning in the word paintings through the selection of words or texts that are both common and open-ended.
	www.gms.be /wool.info.html (3602 words)

	Wool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Long and short hair wool at the South Central Farmily Farm Research Center in Boonesville, AR Wool is the fiber derived from the hair of domesticated animals, usually sheep.
		A fine wool like merino may have up to a hundred crimps per inch, where the coarser wools like karakul may have as few as one to two crimps per inch.
		The spinning capacity of wool is determined by the technique known as wool classing, whereby a qualified woolclasser might group wools of similar gradings together to maximise the return for a farmer wishing to yield the most from the sheep's fleeces.
	www.centipedia.com /index.php?title=Wool (762 words)

	Grades and Length of Wool
		Separation of wools into the various utility classes is based on relative fineness and the diameter of the fiber.
		Crimp is the waviness of the wool fiber, and the crimp count per inch (2.5 centimeters) usually will be higher (more) in finer grades and lower (less) in coarser grades.
		In the worsted system of manufacturing, the wool, after scouring and drying, is carded to lend some organization to the fiber mass and then the wools are "combed." This combing process can only be accomplished on longer length wools and results in the fibers being laid parallel to each other prior to drawing and spinning.
	www.ext.colostate.edu /pubs/livestk/01401.html (909 words)

	Crimp
		Crimp is defined as the natural wave formation of the fiber and is expressed as waves or crimps per unit of length.
		Crimp also occurs along the shaft of a single fiber and is defined as crinkle by Cameron Holt of the Melbourne College of Textiles.
		Large-scale wool-processing studies using a wide range of wool types from different breeds have demonstrated that 80 to 90 percent of the variation in the processing performance of wool yarn and in the quality of fabrics may be explained by variations in the fiber diameter, crimp, and length of raw fleece.
	www.belleauwood.com /Crimp.htm (1694 words)

	Australian Wool Innovation Limited - Wool fibre
		Versatile - wool fabric, knitwear and carpets are made from a wide range of wool types varying from extrafine for suits and knitwear through to broad fibres that give carpets their strength and character.
		The cortical structure of the wool fibre is related to crimp in fibres.
		Wool fibres with little crimp do not bind as well as fibres with crimp and therefore are harder for processors to spin.
	www.wool.com.au /LivePage.aspx?pageId=237 (914 words)

	Wool classing
		Wool crimp ~ The quantity of crimps within a staple (tuft) indicates spinning capacity of the wool.
		Wool Strength ~ also known as "Tensile Strength" ~ determines wool's ability to withstand vigorous cleaning and manufacturing.
		Wool colour~ Indicates whether wool is able to be dyed in light shades.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wo/Wool_classing.html (268 words)

	PLF Karakuls--Wool Judging Article
		The value of wool is judged by its suitability to a specific use.
		Fleece characteristics of grade, crimp, staple length and lock formations are breed related and should be dictated by the standard of breed.
		Wool production is a year round process, where that perfect fleece is determined by animal selection, management, and environment.
	www.plfkarakuls.com /art-wooljudge.html (1290 words)

	Selecting Your Sheep (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		There are several characteristics that have an affect on the value of wool but the most important ones include: fiber diameter, staple length, density and body surface area.
		Crimp or waviness is also taken into account when determining the value of the wool.
		Wool with a tight crimp is said to be fine and loose crimped wool is termed coarse.
	ag.ansc.purdue.edu /sheep/ansc442/Semprojs/2003/sweater/choosing.htm (277 words)

	Wool
		For example, "virgin wool" is wool which has not been spun or woven previously; it comes directly from the fleece of a live sheep, or it is "fell" or "pulled" wool off a dead animal.
		In fine merino wools, for instance, the individual scales are in the form of cylindrical cusps, one somewhat overlapping the other;...In some varieties of wool, on the other hand, two or more scales occur in the circumference of the fibre, e.g.
		The breed of the sheep influences the character of the wool grown on it, and governs to a large extent the length and diameter of the fibres, and also the other points to be considered, such as strength, elasticity, shrinkage, color, luster and waviness.
	www.rugreview.com /83wool.htm (3016 words)

	Sheeps on the Freak Planet : General Informations : Wool
		Wool is the fibre derived from the hair of animals of the Caprinae family, principally sheep and goats, but the hair of other mammals such as alpacas may also be called wool.
		Wool is the fibre produced as the outer coat of sheep.
		Raw wool may go through more than 70 processing steps to assure that fabrics made from the wool are of the highest quality.
	freaksheep.itgo.com /wool.html (760 words)

	Wool Fat Soap -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Mineral wool, also known as mineral cotton, silicate cotton, stone wool, slag wool, rockwool, and rock wool, is an inorganic substance used for insulation and filtering.
		A native of Newburgh, New York, Wool was practicing law in Troy, New York at the outbreak of the War of 1812.
		A wool church is an English church built primarily from the proceeds of the mediaeval wool trade.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/179/wool-fat-soap.html (1937 words)

	Wool Shows
		Wool fibers which are all weak in one specific region of a lock are referred to as a BREAK.
		Crimp Is important for breed character and is indicative of wool grade.
		Crimp - The natural waviness in fibers: distinct crimp - crimps are sharp and clear - fine wools have more crimps per inch; bold crimp - larger crimp spaces widely apart - coarser wools have fewer crimps per inch.
	www.gfwsheep.com /wool.show.html (3001 words)

	Don't Let Micron Madness Crimp Your Style
		Some breeders find crimp attractive and many measure the quality of their fleece by the amount of crimp present.
		The concept of crimp and its relationship to value is undergoing change in the wool business.
		Alpaca fiber lacks crimp, and if it has it, it is almost imperceptible; except in the case of the huacaya, where in some individuals it is possible to notice a curling, though not as noticeable as in sheep.
	www.alpacas-4-sale.com /micron.htm (1355 words)

	Mohair Wool -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The spinning capacity of wool is determined by the technique known as wool classing, whereby a qualified woolclasser might group wools of similar gradings together to maximise the return
		Mineral wool is a furnace product of molten rock, at a temperature of about 1600°C, through which is blown a stream of air or steam.
		The characteristics which a wool classer may examine are: ''Wool crimp'' - The quantity of crimps within a staple (tuft) indicates spinning capacity of the wool.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/99/mohair-wool.html (1647 words)

	Llamapaedia: Wool: Glossary
		The factors involved in felting are the fiber structure, the crimp of the fibers, the ease of deformation of the fiber and the fiber's power of recovery from deformation.
		A hank of wool is 560 yards, cotton and silk is 840 yards and linen is 300 yards.
		Cleaning raw wool or fiber and removing such impurities as dirt, sweat, and grease by washing with soaps and alkalies or with chemicals.
	www.llamapaedia.com /wool/glossary.html (2565 words)

	Llamapaedia: Wool: Fleece Evaluation
		Other characteristics such as crimp, crinkle, density, luster, amount of contamination, color, and handle are more dependent on human sight and touch.
		Crimp is the organized or uniform waviness or curliness of a lock of fiber.
		It pertains to fibers in an intact lock and is measured in waves per unit of length.
	www.llamapaedia.com /wool/evaluation.html (1739 words)

	WOOL
		Wool bedding is the safest choice both at home and in hospitals, hotels, schools, and other institutional settings.
		The wool in wool filled comforters, mattress toppers and pillows can be recarded (re-fluffed) for generations of lasting use.
		A wool comforter lasts for decades and when the comforter finally gives out, because it is wool, it can be returned to the earth for natural recycling, or custom recycled (recarded) at the St. Peter Woolen Mill and returned to you for decades of comfort.
	www.flobeds.com /wool.htm (1532 words)

	Galerie Micheline Szwajcer
		At the beginning of the 1980s, the conservative reinvestment in the authority and market value of painting of the moment was marked as a retrograde, if not necrophilic trajectory.
		Crimp cited the practice of Daniel Buren, who in 1965 limited his painting to alternating white and coloured vertical stripes as a visual signifier within a specified space and context.
		Wool was particularly affected by the attitude of the painters of his generation in Germany - especially Oehlen and Kippenberger - whose work, as Friedrich Petzel has written, "hailed the productivity of failure, claiming that the discrediting of painting's effective capacity has opened yet another discursive field."
	www.gms.be /wool_exhibition_2001.html (823 words)

	Summary of report: The Quality and Processing Performance of Alpaca Fibres
		The wool component is beneficial to the strength of the blend due to the much higher crimp of wool in the blend.
		Unlike knitting wool yarns that have a twist factor of less than 80, it is suggested that knitting alpaca yarns have a minimum twist factor of 80, in order to maintain an acceptable strength for knitting.
		However, for alpaca and superfine wool blends, high-crimp-wool may be preferred if the ratio of alpaca fibre component is high and low-crimp-wool may be preferred if the ratio of alpaca component is low in the blend.
	www.rirdc.gov.au /reports/RNF/03-128sum.html (2564 words)

	Handspinning Wool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Corriedale sheep produce versatile fleeces of moderate length and crimp which can be used to spin a wide range of soft, elastic yarns from fine to thick.
		Coneflower Farm Corriedales have wool in various shades of gray and brown, and variations in between.
		We remove the leg and belly wool and those parts of the fleece outside of the coat that have become contaminated with hay and manure.
	www.spindrifters.com /pages/Maxwell/wool.htm (445 words)

	Fleece Cormo Sheep Wool
		Most of the fleeces are in the middle but I have some fleeces that I describe as a fine crimp (many more crimps per inch) and some have what I call a bold crimp (fewer crimps per inch but the crimps are deeper).
		Usually the bold crimped are not as fine but not always and I've been told by an expert that these are a little easier to spin.
		The fine crimp fleeces tend to be the finest and shortest staple length.
	www.cormo.us /fleece.htm (559 words)

	Crimp Frequency Effects on Processing Performance of Superfine Wool When Staple Length is Held Constant
		There were two crimp frequency (CF) levels (5.5cr/cm and 9cr/cm) and two specific staple length lots (74mm and 85mm) within each CF group.
		These lot specifications were achieved by allocating fleeces to lots based on pre-shearing midside wool measurements and shearing certain groups at times pre-determined by wool length growth at the pre-shearing sampling.
		These results were in broad agreement with others in the literature where either, the wool was obtained from multiple sources, CF was confounded with SL, or the wools were of broader fibre diameter classes.
	sheepjournal.une.edu.au /sheepjournal/vol53/iss2/paper1 (352 words)

	Breeds & Wool Uses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Pronounced, closely-packed crimps usually indicate that the resulting yarn will have some elasticity and a garment made from it should hold its shape well.
		The Down breeds, such as the Poll Dorset, show a confused fibre crimp and yarns made from these bulky fleeces are bouncy and light.
		Soft silky wool which handles like mohair, felts easily, and is suitable for garments and woven fabrics.
	www.colouredsheep.org.nz /breeds.html (635 words)

	Australian Wool Innovation Limited - BTB - Issue 2 Horses for Courses
		The take-home message behind the field days, held in Parkes, NSW and Lara, Victoria is that when it comes to wool, there are horses for courses.
		There are markets for both low and high crimp wool.
		Low crimp wools provides the best balance of properties when it comes to the tailorability of woven fabric, while for knitwear high crimp wool proves more suitable," he said.
	www.wool.com.au /LivePage.aspx?PageId=914 (230 words)

	Door County, Wisconsin - Whitefish Bay Farm, Bed and Breakfast
		Our adult sheep wear jackets year round to assure absolutely clean wool and, in the case of the colored sheep, that there is little or no sun bleaching.
		The wool from the adult rams that we currently use for breeding test from 26.6 to 31.2 microns.
		The geographic range of our customers and their continued loyalty to the wool that our sheep produce is a compliment to our efforts for which we are humbly proud.
	www.whitefishbayfarm.com /fleeces.htm (743 words)

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