Articles of category "Woolen fabrics"

Mankind has been working with wool for a very long time. And during that time a great number of methods of processing wool were developed. An important group of raw materials closely allied to the wools are epidermal hairs of the Angora goat (mohair), the llama, alpaca, beaver wool, cashmere wool.In the family of woolens beaver, chinchilla and other rare sorts of cloth can be met.

Ancient records prove the high antiquity of wool textures and the early importance of the sheep. The history of wool and different wool products is long and thorny. Numerous methods and technologies of making woolens were tested in the course of this long history. There were simple, primitive techniques of making raw wool better, but later far mor complex technologies were applied: carding,combing, drawing, spinning, weaving -procedures, that can only be performed by trained professionals on highly specialized machines.