Hi everyone, I've read many times that angora should be spun fine and with a fairly hard twist to lock in the fibers, that the guard hairs will spring free to give that great angora halo, that spinning tightly will minimize shedding. This all makes sense.
I was spinning some pure angora (I was told it was plucked, not sheared) into laceweight and finished dyeing and setting the twist just now. As I was "snapping" the skein, a bunch of short fibers (1 cm) were shedding out of the skein. Now I have a few questions: 1) Should a harvest by plucking have fibers of such varying length? The majority of guard and undercoat fibers were about 5 cm (a bit over 2 inches). 2) If I spin 2-3" angora carded with 4" wool locks, should I spin to accomodate the shortest fiber? If I didn't spin it hard, would the shorter angora fibers shed out? Or might the wool help lock it into the yarn? Thanks for your advice, June -- why i knit: what else would i do with all these long pointy sticks Fiber Blog has MOVED (3/05): http://www.twosheep.com/blog To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
