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2. 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]

3. Hand spinning - Wikipedia

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   Spinning in the grease covers the spinner's hands in lanolin and, thus, softens the spinner's hands. Spinning in the grease works best if the fleece is newly sheared. After several months, the lanolin becomes sticky, which makes the wool harder to spin using the short-draw technique, and almost impossible to spin using the long-draw technique.

4. Long draw - Wikipedia

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   Long draw is the spinning technique used to create woolen yarns. It is spun from carded rolags. It is generally spun from shorter stapled fibers. Long draw spun yarns are light, lofty, stretchy, soft, and full of air, thus they are good insulators, [1] and make good knitting yarns.

5. The Best Felting Wool for Sculpting, Sewing, and More

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   The process involves tangling fibers together using a barbed tool, and it requires a special kind of combed wool to be able to make your own […] The Best Felting Wool for Sculpting, Sewing, and More

6. Wool top - Wikipedia

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   Topmaking mills make wool top, a semi-processed product from raw wool. The process requires that the wool be scoured (washed) and combed and sorted. The longer fibers resulting from the process are called tops, and are in a form ready for spinning. To be closer to customers, some of the industry has moved from Australia, Europe and the US to China.

7. Spindle (textiles) - Wikipedia

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   The various types of supported spindles range due to the difference in styles of spinning and yarn weight. [17] Navajo spindles have longer shafts that should reach from the ground to the top of the thigh. The spun yarn is wound above the whorl. [18] In Icelandic Viking times, the people used a high whorl lap spindle to spin wool into yarn. The ...