Re: Observations on a Bad Week

Nasti J wrote:
> On Mar 28, 12:40 pm, Veronique <veroniqueuni...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > I think it just does. You clean it, you card it (so the fibers are
> > all laying in the same direction) and start twisting, then add
> > hairs to the twists and there groweth your thread. Each fiber is
> > held in place by the other fibers.
>
> "Wool has two qualities that distinguish it from hair or fur: it has
> scales which overlap like ****ngles on a roof and it is
> crimped...Wool's scaling and crimp make it easier to spin the fleece.
> They help the individual fibers attach to each other so that they stay
> together... Hair, by contrast, has little if any scale and no crimp
> and little ability to bind into yarn."

So does alpaca hair and goat hair and yak hair - or even doig hair - have 
these scales as well? Because people spin all of those, too.

Is that part of the "quality" of the yarn - how scaly it is and how well
it 
sticks together? I mean, there's tons of acrylic yarn - is that just 
manufactured with spinnable scaliness?


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