At 10:50 AM 9/15/2007, you wrote:
Is there a quick and easy way to know whether a wool fabric is a
good candidate for fulling? My experiments so far have had wildly
different results (the one which I bought marked 100% wool -a
suiting- shrank almost not at all), the other was a blanket from
Value Village (which I did the burn test on the sly in the store)
shrank about the equivalent of my knitting with a worsted
yarn. Thanks for any input.
Laurie
Worsted wool suiting is unlikely to full very much, if at all; it's
generally a smooth, firmly woven, somewhat shiny fabric made of
worsted-spun wool. If something is fairly fluffy (meaning it's made
of a woolen-spun yarn) and not firmly woven, like the blanket, it
will probably full to some extent (sometimes to a great extent).
Worsted and woolen are technical terms in spinning that define the
way the wool is prepared and spun (the use of "worsted" as a size of
yarn is a modern misnomer). Worsted yarns are very firm and smooth,
with uniform wool fiber lengths and little air incorporated into the
thread; the wool fibers are prepared by combing. Woolen yarns are
more open and airy than worsted, and have a mix of wool fiber
lengths; the wool fibers are prepared by carding.
Joan Jurancich
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