Uses for Wool

You may not know that wool is used for the felt to cover piano hammers and is also used to absorb the noise and odors that are produced by heavy machinery and stereo speakers. Wool has been used throughout history, to line the helmets of the ancient Greeks and to create breastplates for the Roman legionnaires.

Wool that has bee recycled or remanufactured is called shoddy. Shoddy is produced when wool fabric is torn apart or cut and then respun. Shoddy is an inferior fabric to original wool, as the fibers have shortened during the remanufacturing process. There are several other types of fibers that can be added in to lengthen the fibers, including cotton, raw wool, and wool noil. You most commonly see then used as weft yarns with a cotton warp.

The use of shoddy was invented in the Heavy Woollen District of West Yorkshire. The process was able to create a micro-economy there for many years.

For hardy applications, such as gloves, a sturdy wool fiber called ragg is made into a yarn and then used to create the item.
 

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