--- Kimberly Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> My thoughts would be that the angora my have had a
> touch of wool mites in it,

That is an interesting idea. I noticed no frass in
either of the batts. Would something like that be
apparent in a wool mite infestation? 

> leaving a bit of a sticky, felted mess. 

It wasn't quite that bad... more like it needed some
strong handling to return to a draftable state.

I said in my original post that I hadn't seen this
happen before. I was wrong - I remembered this morning
that I *did* have this happen once before with the
down I harvested from my cat (pure undercoat). It
matted down, iirc, but with some hand-picking, it was
spinnable. 

Thanks for your thoughts,
June


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