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The pulled wool is a wool plucked from the dead sheep skin. It is a product of Wool pulling industry. Mazamet was the biggest center of "wool pulling industry"...

texture. It is much warmer and lighter than wool due to the hollow core of the angora fibre. It also gives the wool its characteristic floating feel. Angora...

Look up pulled in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pulled may refer Pulled rickshaw Pulled wool Pulled pork Pulled hamstring Pulled elbow This disambiguation...

Pulling the wool of socialism's sheep (Chinese: 薅社会主义羊毛), spelled 'hao shehuizhuyi yangmao' in Hanyu Pinyin, is a phrase originating from the sketch comedy...

Steel wool, also known as iron wool, wire wool, or wire sponge, is a bundle of very fine and flexible sharp-edged steel filaments. It was described as...

the wool pulling industry in Europe. In 1906, 95% of French workers in the industry were employed in Tarn. While the vast majority of Mazamet's wool industry...

Cashmere wool, usually simply known as cashmere, is a fiber obtained from cashmere goats, pashmina goats, and some other breeds of goat. It has been used...

Telegraph conceded that "with all we retrospectively know about the wool-pulling to make the case for war, it's a kick to follow a main character on the...

Glass wool is an insulating material made from glass fiber arranged using a binder into a texture similar to wool. The process traps many small pockets...

de France's 12th century version, the sheep is annoyed at having its wool pulled out. Samuel Croxall retitled the tale "The Jackdaw and the Sheep" in...

Worsted (/ˈwɜːrstɪd/ or /ˈwʊstɪd/) is a high-quality type of wool yarn, the fabric made from this yarn, and a yarn weight category. The name derives from...

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...

Recycled wool, also known as rag wool or shoddy is any woollen textile or yarn made by shredding existing fabric and re-spinning the resulting fibres....

Shahtoosh (from Persian شاهتوش 'king of wools'), also known as Shatoush, is a wool obtained from the fur of the chiru (Pantholops hodgsonii, also called...

often used to pull carts and small wagons. Historically, ponies were commonly used in mining to pull ore carts. Dogs are used for pulling light carts or...

Stalinist State. New York: The Donald Press. James Burnham, "A Little Wool Pulling", New International, Vol.4 No.8, August 1938, pp.246–247. Trotsky to...

materials developing from animal hides, to reeds, to early fabrics. Cotton, wool, and silk were the first materials for yarn, and textile trade contributed...

in cashmere and wool products, established in 1985 and owned by Spanish multinational company Inditex, the parent company of Zara, Pull&Bear, and other...

qiviuq; Inupiaq: qiviu or qiviuq (sometimes spelled qiveut)) is the inner wool of the muskox. In Inuinnaqtun the same word can be used to refer any down...

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....