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2. Lopi (knitting) - Wikipedia

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   The machine-carded roving is produced in disc-shaped rolls. This is the original unspun lopi first used for knitting c.1920s. More recently, lightly spun lopi yarn in different thicknesses has become available. Most wool produced in Iceland is processed by Ístex, the Icelandic Textile Company. [1]

3. Lopapeysa - Wikipedia

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   A lopapeysa Icelandic girls wearing traditionally patterned lopapeysa sweaters. A lopapeysa (Icelandic: [ˈlɔːpaˌpʰeiːsa]) or Icelandic sweater is an Icelandic style of sweater originating in early or mid-20th century, at a time when imports had displaced older and more traditional Icelandic clothing and people began to search for new ways to utilize the plentiful native wool.

4. Roving - Wikipedia

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   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. After carding, the fibres lie roughly parallel in smooth ...

5. Spindle (textiles) - Wikipedia

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   Here the cop is wound around the arms to form a ball. Spinning with a suspended spindle (below) and distaff (above). A spindle is a straight spike, usually made from wood, used for spinning, [1] twisting fibers such as wool, flax, hemp, cotton into yarn. It is often weighted at either the bottom, middle, or top, commonly by a disc or spherical ...

6. Wadmal - Wikipedia

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   Wadmal army jacket from the Hälsinge Regiment. Girls' wadmal dress Faroese postage stamp with a picture of a Viking helmsman in a wadmal tunic.. Wadmal (Old Norse: vaðmál; Norwegian: vadmål, 'cloth measure') is a coarse, dense, usually undyed wool fabric woven in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Greenland, and the Orkney, Faroe and Shetland Islands from the Middle Ages into the 18th century.

7. Ring spinning - Wikipedia

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   A ring spinning machine in the 1920s. Ring spinning is a spindle -based method of spinning fibres, such as cotton, flax or wool, to make a yarn. The ring frame developed from the throstle frame, which in its turn was a descendant of Arkwright 's water frame. Ring spinning is a continuous process, unlike mule spinning which uses an intermittent ...