Pulled wool

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" in Europe for Pulled wool also referred to as "skin wool". [1][2][3][4][5]

Alternative names

Pulled wool has several alternative names such as "slipe wool", "glovers' wool", "tanners' wool"[6] and, "dead wool."[7]

Wool pulling industry

The wool pulling industry deals with the fleece from skin wool or pulled wool. Sheepskin is the raw material for Wool pulling industry. Unlike the usual practice of shearing, the wool of a living sheep, the pulled wool is obtained from the slaughtered sheep raised in the meat industry.

Wool sheared from a live sheep is called "clipped wool" and pulled wool is the wool pulled out from a dead sheepskin. The latter quality is inferior and less desirable. [8][9] Wool pulling industry has significant role in wool industry. In 1897, there was a monetary incentive in the United States to promote wool pulling locally. [5]

Mazamet

Mazamet in southern France was the biggest center in Europe for pulled wool. [10][11] There was a separate department (The Department of Tarn, France) was engaged in this profession with the manpower of 2200 in 1906.[5] The city was used to import sheepskins from many countries for Wool pulling. As per records, a large number of sheepskins were imported into the town in the year, 1910.[12]

Process

The process includes the following steps such as seating, depilation and fleece removal.[5]

  • Loosening the skin
  1. The chemical method involves the layering of sodium sulfide on flesh side.
  2. Sheepskins is hung in moisten environment.
  • Pulling the wool
  1. Wool pulling (usually by hand)
  2. They call it "slipe wool" if using lime for pulling the wool.
  • Sorting
Fellmongering

Fellmongering is the practice of removing the wool from a dead sheepskin.[13]

Use

Pulled wool, also known as skin wool, has been often of inferior quality, It was of short staple length, harsher and having less spinnability and was therefore primarily employed in lower to medium-grade woolen products.To make it more useful, pulled wool or skin wool has been blended with other wool qualities.[12][5]


See also

  • Dead cotton: Cotton that has not matured fully or is immature is considered dead cotton. Spinning and dyeing dead cotton is also difficult.[7]
  • Sheep meat

References

  1. ^ "Definition of PULLED WOOL". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2021-07-21.
  2. ^ "Definition of SKIN WOOL". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2021-07-21.
  3. ^ Inspection, India Directorate of Marketing and (1964). Marketing Series. The Directorate. p. 57.
  4. ^ Roche, Julian (1995-07-31). The International Wool Trade. Elsevier. p. 22. ISBN 978-1-84569-286-5.
  5. ^ a b c d e Board, United States Tariff (1912). Wool and Manufactures of Wool: Message of the President of the United States, Transmitting a Report of the Tariff Board on Schedule K of the Tariff Law. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 60, 61.
  6. ^ Bergen, Werner Von; Mauersberger, Herbert Richard (1938). Slipe+wool+if+using+Lime+for+pulling+the+wool. American Wool Handbook: A Practical Text and Reference Book for the American Woolen and Worsted Manufacturer, and Allied Industries. American wool handbook Company. p. 248. Numerous other names are used in the trade for pulled wool such as skin wool , slipe wool , tanners ' wool , and glovers ' wool .
  7. ^ a b Harmuth, Louis (1915). Dictionary of textiles. University of California Libraries. New York, Fairchild publishing company. p. 51.
  8. ^ Picken, Mary Brooks (2013-07-24). A Dictionary of Costume and Fashion: Historic and Modern. Courier Corporation. p. 377. ISBN 978-0-486-14160-2.
  9. ^ Electrical Record. Electrical Record Publishing Company, Incorporated. 1911. p. 56.
  10. ^ The Wool Digest. International Wool Secretariat in the United States. 1949. p. 9. MAZAMET , FRANCE Development of Mazamet , France , as a world center for handling and treating sheepskins
  11. ^ World Wool Prospects. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Economics. 1934. p. 18. France is the world's most important center for the wooleå sheepskin trade . Exports of wool ... The wool pulling industry is located chiefly at Mazamet .
  12. ^ a b Jenkins, D. T.; Jenkins, David Trevor (2003). The Cambridge History of Western Textiles. Cambridge University Press. p. 768. ISBN 978-0-521-34107-3.
  13. ^ Anstey, H. (Helen) (1997). The Anstey Weston guide to textile terms. Internet Archive. [Great Britain] : Weston. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-9530130-0-5.
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