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aligns the individual fibres to be parallel with each other. In preparing wool fibre for spinning, carding is the step that comes after teasing. The word...

loft and softness of the undercoat. Wool that has never been used is known as virgin wool and can be mixed with wool that has been recovered from rags....

"Firework"; Katy Putty's new song "Flammable" gives hope to clay, paper, and wool characters who feel rejected by society – but all of them burst into flames...

Bronze wool is a bundle of very fine bronze filaments [citation needed], used in finishing and repair work to polish wood [citation needed] or metal objects...

fibers of the wool. Usually, sheep are shorn in spring and fall. The spring shear produces wool of finer quality. The lowest grade of wool used in carpet...

Salix lanata, the woolly willow, is a subarctic species of willow native to Iceland, the Faeroe Islands and Finland, through to eastern Siberia. In Scotland...

Ampeloglypter ampelopsis Anthonomus nigrinus Cryptorhynchus lapathi Poplar-and-Willow Borer Dorytomus taeniatus Lixus musculus Rhinusa pilosa Smicronyx sculpticollis...

Wilfred Wooller (20 November 1912 – 10 March 1997) was a Welsh cricketer, rugby union footballer, cricket administrator and journalist. He was acclaimed...

Wool stole the 7 Willows that brought light to it. In desperation, the Fairy Queen Velvet dispatched a beautiful fairy named Silk to get the Willows back...

black and white cat with green eyes, from the CBeebies series Postman Pat. Willow (voiced by Morwenna Banks) is a skewbald horse wearing a sunhat. The largest...

Sark spent only a few years on the tea trade before turning to the trade in wool from Australia, where she held the record time to Britain for ten years....

Dick as "an old bull whale, of prodigious size and strength... white as wool".: 379  According to Reynolds, Mocha Dick's head was covered with barnacles...

agriculturally, about 70 per cent is used as grassland and the rest is arable. Willow and teazel are grown commercially and peat is extracted. A Palaeolithic...

nettle fibre, milkweed fibre, rushes and reeds, willow bark and more recently, domesticated sheep wool. Growing in many areas, Indian hemp (Apocynum cannabinum)...

stuhlmannii) Willow (Salix) Black willow (Salix nigra) Cricket-bat willow (Salix alba 'Caerulea') White willow (Salix alba) Weeping willow (Salix babylonica)...

contain wool, but also food (bread, cheese, milk, fruits and vegetables), small animals or flowers. The calathi were most often made of willow rods, but...

is by the felting of wool. Namda is a traditional Kashmiri carpet produced by felting wool instead of weaving woollen threads. Wool that comes directly...

woven or flat woven without pile, using various materials such as silk, wool, cotton, jute and animal hair. Examples range in size from pillows to large...

sheep Roxanne (who was taught to walk on its hind legs and has overgrown wool) as the Action News Team work to find Roxanne before Mr. Bolhofner finds...

a method of building for creating framed structures of heavy timber or willow wood Frame (aircraft), structural rings in an aircraft fuselage Frame (nautical)...