| Show what Is worsted A woolen yam is soft and fluffy whilo ft worsted yarn is hard and firm possessing a much greater tensile strength in the woollen yam the fibers are tangled and crossed and drawing is avoided aa much as possible in preparing the raw for spinning so as to leave th natural of the fibers undisturbed and afford the greatest freedom of action to the felting and quality 0 the wool in worsted yarns the object is to obliterate the felting quality and to secure elongation and parallel arrangement of the fibers in the early days of the manufacture the best results were only attainable in worsted bams yams from long fleece the english wools are commonly called combing wools for this reason and it was the possession of this fleece of aa unrivaled quality which made england the birthplace of the worsted manufacture and has kept it at the front in this process one of the results of improved machinery has been to remove any distinction between woolens and worsteds worst eds based upon the difference between the wools employed in the two processes short wool of merino blood can now be combed aa successfully as the longer staple the processes of treatment however continue to differ radically this difference is primarily created by the introduction of the combing machine an instrument to tha wool manufacture proper S N D north unpopular Popular in science monthly |
