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  2. Roving - Wikipedia

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    Grey and white wool roving. A roving is a long and narrow bundle of fiber. Rovings are produced during the process of making spun yarn from wool fleece, raw cotton, or other fibres. Their main use is as fibre prepared for spinning, but they may also be used for specialised kinds of knitting or other textile arts.

  3. Spindle (textiles) - Wikipedia

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    Unlike the Navajo spindle, however, the spun yarn is wrapped around the lower end of the spindle. The roving is prepped first by drafting it before the wool is spun into yarn. The separation between the drafting and spinning creates a softer yarn. Since it is a supported spindle, the yarn is less strained, which also makes the yarn soft. [19]

  4. Glossary of textile manufacturing - Wikipedia

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    Woolen or woollen is a yarn and cloth usually made from wool. worsted fabric Worsted is a yarn and cloth usually made from wool. The yarn is well twisted and spun of long staple wool (though nowadays also medium and short fibers are used). The wool is combed so that the fibers lie parallel. woven fabric A woven fabric is a cloth formed by ...

  5. Textile manufacturing by pre-industrial methods - Wikipedia

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    A pencil roving is a roving thinned to the width of a pencil. It can be used for knitting without any spinning, or for apprentices. Combing is another method to align the fibres parallel to the yarn, and thus is good for spinning a worsted yarn, whereas the rolag from handcards produces a woolen yarn.

  6. Noil - Wikipedia

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    The short noil fibers are left over from combing of wool or spinning silk. [2] Noil may be treated as a shorter-staple fiber and spun, hand-plied, or used as wadding. [citation needed] Noil may also be used as a decorative additive in spinning projects like rovings and yarns.

  7. Spinning (textiles) - Wikipedia

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    Spinning is a twisting technique to form yarn from fibers.The fiber intended is drawn out, twisted, and wound onto a bobbin.A few popular fibers that are spun into yarn other than cotton, which is the most popular, are viscose (the most common form of rayon), animal fibers such as wool, and synthetic polyester. [1]

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