This is fascinating! I would send my wool to these people to process! As a handspinner I know how much work it is, doing all this one lock of wool at a time...amazing to watch how the same work is done on large machines so much faster. This man is a natural demonstrator and explainer--he's excellent at showing and telling as well as doing the job of processing wool.
thanks for making this video! I am sending my mohair to a small boutique mill like this one and it's nice to see how it all works. One thing, though, "woolen" isn't about fiber made of wool. It's a type of fiber preparation where there is more air in the finished product because all of the fibers aren't perfectly aligned and parallel. Combed top, which is another fiber prep, has all the fibers aligned and parallel and that's a worsted prep. Woolen is the prep and the method of spinning, not that it's made of wool. :-)
His hands are actually remarkably clean for someone who works with industrial machinery all day. Try looking at a mechanics hands sometime for a good baseline for "dirty".
And there was no mention of "combing"....removal of short fibre content up to 22 mill to make a fabric suitable for high end materials. Everyone even mass produced material is combed simply because it produces better fabric. They avoided fro what ever reason a critical process perhaps to save money as noil is reduction in weight of sold textiles. Combed wool offers better spinning performance and less fibre per cross section...
This is fascinating! I would send my wool to these people to process! As a handspinner I know how much work it is, doing all this one lock of wool at a time...amazing to watch how the same work is done on large machines so much faster. This man is a natural demonstrator and explainer--he's excellent at showing and telling as well as doing the job of processing wool.
this interviewer is so excited about this i really enjoy it
Thank you for showing this series - very interesting!
Amazing. Thank you for uploading this series. Very informative
Great video Tracy, very interesting.
Fantastic. This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you!!
thanks for making this video! I am sending my mohair to a small boutique mill like this one and it's nice to see how it all works. One thing, though, "woolen" isn't about fiber made of wool. It's a type of fiber preparation where there is more air in the finished product because all of the fibers aren't perfectly aligned and parallel. Combed top, which is another fiber prep, has all the fibers aligned and parallel and that's a worsted prep. Woolen is the prep and the method of spinning, not that it's made of wool. :-)
A lot of hard work. No wonder wool is so expensive.
This is so informative! Can you purchase the roving from them or not? How does a person find out?
This is fascinating
siempre tengo esperansa que habra un resultado dentro de poco para prosesar nuestras fibras del peru
His hands are actually remarkably clean for someone who works with industrial machinery all day. Try looking at a mechanics hands sometime for a good baseline for "dirty".
Interesting🤔💡
Awesome
en el peru hasta hoy no hay quien tome interes en serio sobre el proseso de la fibra de los auquenidos del peru
And there was no mention of "combing"....removal of short fibre content up to 22 mill to make a fabric suitable for high end materials. Everyone even mass produced material is combed simply because it produces better fabric. They avoided fro what ever reason a critical process perhaps to save money as noil is reduction in weight of sold textiles. Combed wool offers better spinning performance and less fibre per cross section...
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Look how DIRTY his hands are working with that fiber! I wouldn't send a hair off my alpacas there....although a good video on the processes.
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