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Types of Wool

Alpaca
Alpaca

Alpaca fleece is the natural fiber harvested from an alpaca. It is light or heavy in weight, depending on how it is spun. It is a soft, durable, luxurious and silky natural fiber. While similar to sheep’s wool, it is warmer, not prickly, and has no lanolin, which makes it hypoallergenic.

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Angora
Angora

Angora wool, showing the 'halo' effect Angora hair or Angora fibre refers to the downy coat produced by the Angora rabbit. While their names are similar, Angora fibre is distinct from mohair, which comes from the Angora goat.

Angora Wool
Angora Wool

3. The male Angora rabbit has a fur yield that is only 80 percent to that of the female. They’re routinely killed immediately after birth since they’re not profitable to the breeder. PETA. 4. The trade value of angora wool is $27 to $35 for every two pounds.

Angora Wool
Angora Wool

Angora wool is an extraordinarily soft knitting fiber produced from the fur of the Angora rabbit. It can only be spun from the hair of rabbits, while the product of angora goats is called mohair. The fibers have a very soft, silky texture and are usually 10 to 13 microns thick.

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Camel
Camel

Camel wool and yarn and products made of camel wool are not very common in everyday life but nevertheless our overview of wool yarn types would be incomplete without it. Camel hair is an animal fiber collected from the camel.

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Cashmere
Cashmere

Cashmere wool, usually simply known as cashmere, is a luxury fiber obtained from cashmere goats and other types of goat. The word cashmere is an old spelling of Kashmir, the geographical region in north of India and Pakistan. Common usage defines the fiber as wool but it is finer and softer than sheep's wool.

Cashmere Wool
Cashmere Wool

Cashmere wool and merino wool are fabrics with similar properties used in many products. But despite their similar appearance, cashmere wool and merino wool are different. Let’s highlight differences and similarities of cashmere and merino.

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Cashmere Wool
Cashmere Wool

Cashmere wool and merino wool are fabrics with similar properties used in many products. But despite their similar appearance, cashmere wool and merino wool are different. Let’s highlight differences and similarities of cashmere and merino.

Cotton
Cotton

Telephone messages were sent up to the Glen, Doctor Dave and a white-capped nurse came hastily down, Marilla paced the garden walks between the quahog shells, murmuring prayers between her set lips, and Susan sat in the kitchen with cotton wool in her ears and her apron over her head.

Merino Wool
Merino Wool

Merino wool breathes and manages moisture better than any other fiber. Time for a little science: Breathability is the ability of a fabric or fiber to transport moisture in the vapor state from an area of higher humidity to an area of lower humidity.

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Mohair
Mohair

Mohair is composed mostly of keratin, a protein found in the hair, wool, horns and skin of all mammals. While it has scales like wool, the scales are not fully developed, merely indicated. Thus, mohair does not felt as wool does. Mohair fiber is approximately 25–45 microns in diameter.

Mohair
Mohair

Mohair is composed mostly of keratin, a protein found in the hair, wool, horns and skin of all mammals. While it has scales like wool, the scales are not fully developed, merely indicated. Thus, mohair does not felt as wool does. Mohair fiber is approximately 25–45 microns in diameter.

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Rayon
Rayon

Rayon is a versatile fiber and is widely claimed to have the same comfort properties as natural fibers, although the drape and slipperiness of rayon textiles are often more like nylon. It can imitate the feel and texture of silk, wool, cotton and linen.

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Rock wool, like other forms of fiber insulation, greatly slows heat loss by trapping air in tiny pockets separated from one another by the rock wool fibers. Heat can't travel easily from one pocket to the next.

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Sheep's Wool
Sheep's Wool

Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and other animals, including cashmere and mohair from goats, qiviut from muskoxen, angora from rabbits, and other types of wool from camelids. Wool mainly consists of protein together with a few percent lipids.

Silk
Silk

Some time ago we got interested in silk/wool blends. So we set about the task of sourcing them and found several. After narrowing down the selection to a lightweight and a heavyweight blend, we placed our orders for fabric and scarves.

Wool
Wool

A wool fibre is composed of a natural protein called keratin that is biodegradable, similar to the protein found in human hair. When disposed of, Merino wool decomposes in soil in a matter of years, slowly releasing valuable nitrogen-based nutrients back into the earth, acting like a fertiliser.

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Wool
Wool

Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and other animals, including cashmere and mohair from goats, qiviut from muskoxen, angora from rabbits, and other types of wool from camelids. Wool mainly consists of protein together with a few percent lipids.

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