Hi Fibernetters,
I can't resist throwing in my take on the wool break discussion.
What is a break?
The usage that I understand is that it is a place in a fleece where
the wool is a much smaller diameter and therefore weaker. A 'break'
also has the quality of having its origin at a moment in time. In
other words, a break in one fiber in a fleece is mirrored in every
fiber in that fleece. So, a fleece with a break means just that. The
entire fleece will show evidence of the smaller, weaker fiber that
was grown at the same time.
In a fleece with a very strong break, the fleece will just peel apart
into two fleeces along the weak boundary. the boundary is as smooth
as it a razor-sharp knife cut it.
The 'break' or 'the lift' are the same thing in terms of the physical
nature of the fleece. The cause is another issue altogether that
doesn't matter in this context.
What is not a break?
What is not a break is a distributed breaking in a fleece. By
'distributed' I mean that the perceived weakness is not at the same
time plane in the fleece. If you take a lock of wool and yank on it
enough, it will eventually part into two locks. It the two locks
don't have an almost even breaking boundary, then that is just fibers
breaking anywhere. If the two locks have fuzzy broken ends, that
isn't a 'break', Any fleece at all will break if pulled hard enough.
The point is that each fiber will break 'on its own' at the place
where that fiber yields.
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isn't a break
Best,
Ron
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