
How to process the raw wool?
What is raw wool? The raw wool is taken from the sheep skin by farmers, it contains oil, dirt, and vegetable matter. Farmers shear the raw wool from sheep and put them into bags. Such raw wool can not be used directly, it needs to be washed first to remove the oil and dirt. So how do process the raw wool? There are ways to process the raw wool in the following: 1. Washing/scoured wool 1) Workers open the bags and put raw wool together, and then let workers sort the wool by hand first, pick up the colored fiber, the big vegetable matter, etc. 2) After sorting the raw wool, it will be put into a water channel for the washing process. There are usually 5 water channels, put pure water into the first/fourth/ fifth water channel, and then put the washing agent for the second and third water channels. And then put the raw wool from the first water channel, then the second, the third channel… 3)After washing through the five water channels, the washed wool will be dry for packaging. 2. Carded/combed wool What is carded sheep wool? The carded sheep wool is the wool that has been carded by a machine to separate the wool with different microns. After carding the wool, the length will be shorter than scoured wool around 1.5inch. The process detail is as below: 1) Wash the wool with a scouring agent and then dry it 2) Put the scoured wool into the machine for carding 3) Put the first carded wool into the machine again, then card around 8-13 times 4) During the carded process, the wool is separated into different microns, put similar micron wool together, and then bleached or packed into a bale directly 3. Carbonized wool What is carbonized wool? Carbonized wool


