Woolen yarns are made into fabric using a plain weave rarely a twill which produces a fabric of a somewhat looser weave and a soft surface due to napping with little or no luster. Wool manufacturers use two basic weaves.

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The plain weave and the twill.

Stages of wool production. It is also called grease wool because of all the oil and lanolin in the wool. Sometimes as much as 50 of the weight of the fleece is not wool. The main objectives of mechanical.

This involves the fabric passing through boiling and then cold water in order to set the cloth and strengthen it. The shorn wool coat is called a fleece. The napping often conceals flaws in construction.

With the end product in mind the right type and amount of chemical finishes are then added to the wool fabric. Crabbing is the next step the wool fabric goes through. There is much vegetable matter manure and natural oil that must be removed.

This fleece must be cleaned before it can be processed into wool yarn. Top making is unique to the worsted processing system and comprises three steps. Carbonising is only used for wools that have large amounts of vegetable matter and the wool is only used in the woollen processing system not the worsted processing system.

The mechanical processing stage in the wool pipeline commences with clean scoured wool and ends with the yarn ready for the fabric manufacturing stage. Carding gilling and combing.