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flocculent is an adjective describing something appearing fluffy or woolly. Compare
flocculant. --
Ali@gwc.org.uk 23:10, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Fire resistance?
Unlike synthetic fibers, is wool fire resistant/retartant?
(This unsigned comment left at 15:55, 28 January 2006 by 216.254.113.62):Not significantly afaik; its chief advantage in fires (which it shares with other natural fibres) is that it will burn cleanly rather than melting onto skin, seats, etc. Incidentally, please type
~~~~ at the end of your posts to sign them. /
blahedo (
t) 21:13, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
According to the wool scientists, wool is harder to ignite than most sysnthetic fibres used in equivalent products (higher ignition temperature); it has lower rate of flame spread; low heat release and low heat of combustion; doesn't melt or drip; forms a char which is insulating and self-extinguishes; and contributes less to toxic gases and smoke than other flooring products when used in carpets. Wool carpets are specified for high safety environments such as trains and aircraft. Wool is often specified for fire-fighter garments.
PeterBaxter 08:27, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Virgin wool
Hoping that someone might be able to add some content that explains what Virgin Wool is. Thanks.
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Sferrier 19:04, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
*It is wool not used before; wool not processed or woven before.
Eagle 20:33, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)
*Most british wool isnt virgin wool... incidently most british wool comes from Wales :D
Wolfmankurd 19:53, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Redirect?
Why does
Fleece redirect here?
→AzaToth 21:36, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
:Answer #1: Because it's just a name for unprocessed wool, so it doesn't deserve its own article.
:Answer #2: Oh, unless you mean the synthetic material. :) I've changed it from a redirect to a dab. If there's yet another kind of fleece you were looking for, feel free to add it over there. /
blahedo (
t) 02:08, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
Reverted Page
Someone changed the second paragraph maliciously, (changed wool to drool, inserted the word 'gay' a couple of times) so I changed it back to whatever it was right before that. I also put a brief definition of 'virgin wool' in the 'Uses' section.
Cicatrix 04:03, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Systemic bias
I'm adding a
systemic bias tag to this article, as it is clearly centered on the western tradition of a global concept. An article about wool should be about wool in general, providing an overview of sheep and goat wool and also alpaca wool, and derivative concepts like steel wool, and refer to the relevant main articles. Most of the current content should be moved to
sheep wool. -
Ahruman 09:51, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
:Ahruman, this article *is* about sheep wool. There is a statement in the first paragraph to that effect:
::"This article deals with the wool produced from domestic sheep."
:And there is an tag included up the top also. I don't think it is an exclusively Western concept that "Wool" refers to sheep wool first. In English anyway it does. And for alpaca wool and steel wool, etc there are separate articles. Most people think of wool as sheep wool first. I think sheep wool being by far the most common sort of wool shuold stay in this article here. And discussion about other sorts of wool should go elsewhere. What do you think?
:I changed the above sentence to say "explicitly" just to make it clearer and also added another sentence with links to the other fibres that use "wool" in their name or other animal furs called wool. I also removed the tag you put on. If your argument is that this article deals with
sheep wool from a Western-only viewpoint then feel free to put it back. Thanks for raising all the same —
Донама 02:20, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
Production question
Why are details given about sheep flocks in the US when it produces just .77% of the global wool clip? It would be alright to leave the details about the US, but only if details are also given about countries that have significant levels of production, eg China and New Zealand. --
Colourblind 04:29, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
:Because there are more English Wikipedia editors in the US than anywhere else. To bring back a balance I agree with you -- attention needs to be paid to add information about sheep husbandry outside the US. —
Donama 04:50, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
::If you have such information, write it in.
PrometheusX303 07:03, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Wool contains Carbon Dioxide?
Maybe I just don't know wool science but the statement that wool contains carbon dioxide seems suspect such CO2 is a gas. I did some google searchs and found nothing about this. If this is is true it needs more explanation and a source (I was unable to find anything about it after a short google search) --
67.101.146.57 20:00, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
Glass fleeces is also a term to be included here. It can be used for immobilization of biomolecules
11/06 Overhaul
I've been making some pretty heavy changes to this page. I pretty much overhauled the references section, since there were, I think, three cited sources, and they were not cited consistently or in keeping with current standards. I did try to keep & update the sources that were there, but it was patchy guesswork in some instances, so please contribute if you have any insights on them.
As for new sections, I haven't even looked at the history or uses parts. I was in the middle of making a stub section on common breeds, but my browser ate it, and I don't know too much about breeds, other than they exist, so I was having trouble paring down the huge lists I found as sources into summaries anyway. I also found a better source (http://www.textilelinks.com/author/rb/971021.html) for the quality section than the somewhat scattered stuff that is there now - I'll try to integrate/re-do it when I have time.
Hopefully nobody takes offense at anything I've done I'm not much of an expert in this area, and appreciate any feedback you have in making this page better.
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Spyforthemoon 22:14, 10 November 2006 (UTC)