Fiber Study - Fiber List
& History of Spinning
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Included here is a sample fleece list: ***Kits may vary due to avaliablity of fleeces, there will always be 40 or more fleece samples to each kit. Black Welsh Mountain
California Red
*California Verigated Mutuant
Cheviot
North Country Cheviot
Clun Forest
Columbia
Coopworth
Cormo
Corriedale
*Cotswold
Debouillet
*Horned Dorset
Polled Dorset
Finnsheep
Gotland
*Gulf Coast Native
Hampshire
*Hog Island
Icelandic
*Jacob
*Karakul
Bluefaced Leicester
Border Leicester
*English Leicester Longwool
*Lincoln Longwool
Merino
Montadale
*Navajo-Churro
Perendale
Polwarth
Polypay
Rambouillet
Romney
Romanov
Scottish Blackface
*Shetland
*Soay
Southdown
Suffolk
Targee
*+Teeswater X Cotswold
Texel
Tunis
*+Wensleydale X Cotswold
*Rare or Endangered Breeds
+Only cross breeds in this study
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Spinning
has been known in some form since 5000 BC.
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The first spinning was done on hand spindles by stone age man. Spindle whorls have been found by archaeologists all over the world. Some made of stone and others of pottery.
Sometime between AD 500 to 1000, probably in India, the first spinning wheels were made to spin cotton. This was basiclly a spindle mounted horizontally in a holder and a wheel to turn it. This developed into the hand cranked Charkha type wheel or its oriental counterpart used to spin cotton and silk
From the far east the next developement was in the middle east - Turkey, Iran, etc. Their spinning wheels sat on the ground and still being turned by hand, they added an additional drive wheel speeding up the process..
When the spinning wheel moved to Europe it was greatly enlarged and set off the floor on legs. This became known as a wool-wheel and later as a walking wheel or great wheel. Most of these wheels were 4 to 5 feet tall. This type wheel continued to be popular until the late l9th century.
However, in 1530 a man namedJurgen, an innkeeper, cabinetmaker and wood craftsman in Saxony (German) is credited with 'inventing' the first treadle wheel. The flyer-type wheel design may have originated much earlier in Italy, from a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. The flyer-type spinning wheel spred thru Europe and then to America in many different styles, but they all, even to this day, have remained basically the same. The new electric spinners still use a flyer and bobbin mechanisim.
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