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  2. Wool - Wikipedia

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    Wool straight off a sheep is known as "raw wool", "greasy wool" [8] or "wool in the grease". This wool contains a high level of valuable lanolin, as well as the sheep's dead skin and sweat residue, and generally also contains pesticides and vegetable matter from the animal's environment. Before the wool can be used for commercial purposes, it ...

  3. Alpaca fiber - Wikipedia

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    Alpaca fleece, Wool Expo, Armidale, NSW Spinning alpaca wool by Treadle wheel, Gotthard Pass, 2018. Yarn spun from alpaca wool. Alpaca scarf. Cambridge Food, Garden and Produce Festival, England. Alpaca fleece is the natural fiber harvested from an alpaca. There are two different types of alpaca fleece. The most common fleece type comes from a ...

  4. Mohair - Wikipedia

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    Mohair wool An Angora goat. Mohair (pronounced / ˈ m oʊ h ɛər /) originated from the Arabic word [مهير] and it is a fabric or yarn made from the hair of the Angora goat (not Angora wool from the fur of the Angora rabbit). Both durable and resilient, mohair is lustrous with high sheen, [1] and is often blended to add these qualities to a ...

  5. Cashmere wool - Wikipedia

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    The demand for the fiber has caused some vendors, both knowingly and not, to sell yarns or textiles containing little to no cashmere [4] representing themselves as being composed of cashmere. Wool and other fibers have been mixed in by unscrupulous manufacturers, deliberately selling mislabeled items to well-known department stores.

  6. Textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution

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    At the same time, the East India Company's rule in India contributed to its deindustrialization, opening up a new market for foreign goods, [5] while the capital accumulated in Bengal after establishing direct control in 1757 was used by the East India Company to invest in British industries such as textile manufacturing, which contributed ...

  7. Linen - Wikipedia

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    The standard measure of bulk linen yarn is the "lea", which is the number of yards in a pound of linen divided by 300. For example, a yarn having a size of 1 lea will give 300 yards per pound. The fine yarns used in handkerchiefs, etc. might be 40 lea, and give 40x300 = 12,000 yards per pound.

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