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    materials, such as mineral wool and glass wool, that have some properties similar to animal wool. As an animal fiber, wool consists of protein together...
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    Vicuña wool refers to the hair of the South American vicuña, an animal of the family of camelidae. The wool has, after shahtoosh, the second smallest fiber...
    7 KB (994 words) - 06:37, 29 May 2024
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    (wool) Wool Wool bale Wool measurement Wool-sorter's disease, a historical name for anthrax Australian Wool Corporation; Australian Council of Wool Exporters...
    6 KB (793 words) - 16:59, 4 March 2024
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    Greenwood trained as a weaver, and then apprenticed as a wool sorter and remained in the wool sorting trade for 26 years. At 18 Greenwood became secretary...
    7 KB (593 words) - 05:47, 11 December 2023
  • Woolsorters' Society (NWS) was a trade union representing workers involved in sorting wool in the United Kingdom, principally in Yorkshire. The union was founded...
    2 KB (228 words) - 01:59, 23 May 2024
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    construction circa 1892, Harrop is described in city directories as a wool sorter, but, over the following years, he became a real estate developer. The...
    3 KB (313 words) - 16:49, 22 June 2024
  • mills make wool top, a semi-processed product from raw wool. The process requires that the wool be scoured (washed) and combed and sorted. The longer...
    783 bytes (105 words) - 11:44, 15 May 2024
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    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...
    10 KB (1,180 words) - 01:12, 21 June 2024
  • Pulled wool also referred to as "skin wool". Pulled wool has several alternative names such as "slipe wool", "glovers' wool", "tanners' wool" and, "dead...
    7 KB (726 words) - 19:08, 3 August 2022
  • author. Turner was born in Sowerby, Yorkshire, the third son of Robert, a wool sorter, and Elizabeth Turner. At the age of eight, he was sent to work at Peel...
    5 KB (383 words) - 20:14, 1 July 2023
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    A wool-stapler is a dealer in wool. The wool-stapler buys wool from the producer, sorts and grades it, and sells it on to manufacturers. Some wool-staplers...
    2 KB (179 words) - 22:26, 20 June 2021
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    Utica, N.Y., from 1905 until his death in 1961. Lincoln was the son of wool sorter Edwin Holroyd and grandson of the celebrated poet Abraham Holroyd of...
    7 KB (969 words) - 20:01, 14 May 2024
  • in Novopavlovsk, Russian SFSR. For the next two years he worked as a wool sorter at a storing department in Shaki, Azerbaijan. In 1986 he became senior...
    13 KB (1,419 words) - 23:06, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Joseph Wright (linguist)
    and writing, for me, were as remote as any of the sciences." By now a wool-sorter earning a pound a week, after 1870 Wright became increasingly fascinated...
    23 KB (2,304 words) - 06:50, 13 March 2024
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    West, the sixth of seven sons for John Mason, an English-born Welsh wool-sorter and Lydia Sarah Campbell, a Quebec-born housewife of Scottish background...
    34 KB (4,261 words) - 21:38, 11 June 2024
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    boss carder, two boss weavers, one laborer, one helper, one dyer, one wool sorter, one picker, two teamsters, one spinner, one blacksmith, one wagonmaker...
    10 KB (1,135 words) - 22:18, 26 September 2023
  • Wire wool is a generic term for products made of filaments entwined, woven or otherwise agglomerated into a sort of felt pad or belt that is often rolled...
    3 KB (330 words) - 02:44, 26 April 2023
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    Christopher Wool (born 1955) is an American artist. Since the 1980s, Wool's art has incorporated issues surrounding post-conceptual ideas. Wool was born...
    12 KB (1,214 words) - 00:16, 17 June 2024
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    married Mary Jane Bates (1822 – 5 August 1897), daughter of James Bates, a wool sorter of Halifax. They had no children. The England Census 1841–1891 describes...
    33 KB (3,584 words) - 14:32, 27 May 2024
  • 1930 he moved to Australia where his mother hoped he would become a wool sorter. He was more interested in art and in the 1930s studied at the Julian...
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