Editing Wool (section)

==Yarn==
[[File:Worsted wool yarn.JPG|thumb| Woollen [[yarn]]]]

[[Shoddy]] or recycled wool is made by cutting or tearing apart existing wool fabric and respinning the resulting fibers.<ref name=Kadolph>{{cite book|editor-last=Kadolph|editor-first=Sara J|title=Textiles|edition=10|publisher=Pearson/Prentice-Hall|year=2007|isbn=978-0-13-118769-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/textiles0010kado/page/63 63]|url=https://archive.org/details/textiles0010kado/page/63}}</ref> As this process makes the wool fibers shorter, the remanufactured fabric is inferior to the original. The recycled wool may be mixed with raw wool, wool [[noil]], or another fiber such as cotton to increase the average fiber length. Such [[yarn]]s are typically used as [[weft]] yarns with a cotton [[warp (weaving)|warp]]. This process was invented in the [[Heavy Woollen District]] of [[West Yorkshire]] and created a microeconomy in this area for many years.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Shell |first1=Hanna Rose |title=Leftovers / Devil's Dust |url=https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/60/shell.php |website=cabinetmagazine.org |language=en}}</ref>

[[Worsted]] is a strong, long-[[staple (wool)|staple]], [[combing|combed]] wool yarn with a hard surface.<ref name=Kadolph/>

[[Woolen]] is a soft, short-staple, [[carding|carded]] wool yarn typically used for knitting.<ref name=Kadolph/> In traditional weaving, woolen weft yarn (for softness and warmth) is frequently combined with a worsted warp yarn for strength on the loom.<ref>{{cite book|last=Østergård|first=Else|title=Woven into the Earth: Textiles from Norse Greenland|publisher=Aarhus University Press|year=2004|isbn=87-7288-935-7|page=50}}</ref>