Huacaya Alpaca Fiber Fine Grade 3 Black Batt 8 oz 1/2 Lb Roving Spinning 9.5"!

Description: Description of This Product: You are buying: 8 OZ. (1/2 LB.) OF GRADE 3 (FINE) FIBER, AS MULTIPLE, APPROX 20.5"L x 8"W BATTS (Carder drum size, before natural expansion). The images show 8 ounces of this fiber on a 15"x 20" cutting board, at normal fluff after lifting from the drum carder. While batts can be used as padding, the usual use is to draw their straightened fibers into roving for spinning. Preparation: This fiber has been: - Carefully skirted as a raw fleece to remove, to the extent feasible, guard hairs, light colored hairs, non-blanket hairs, and large contaminants- Washed to remove most oils and fine dirt particles- Combed to remove most neps (fiber clumps), noils (very short fibers), and remaining debris. The very short-fiber fuzz that naturally occurs in this type of fiber has been substantially removed with combing, leaving longer fibers suited to strong strand.- Hand drawn from the combs and the hackle into sliver, orienting the fibers in parallel- Drawn out, then fed end first into a drum carder to improve blending and parallelism- Removed from the drum carder as batts Use: These batts are ready to:- Draw immediately through a diz into roving for woolen or semi-worsted spinning with long fibers- Process with other fibers- Further comb and draw into long fiber top for smooth worsted yarn or thread- Make exceptionally strong felt- Use in other desired ways This substantial length of fiber is not recommended for bird nesting, due to possible entanglement. While batts such as these could be used as padding inside of garments or cushions, it is a more economical choice to use lower quality, coarser fiber for purposes where the fiber does not rest against the skin. Grade: The staple length of this blanket fleece is approx 9.5". The tested fiber diameter averages at about 24 microns, grade 3, fine. The histogram image provided in this listing summarizes 50 random measurements, +/- 1 micron, from this fleece. Color: Natural, undyed. This blanket selection of fleece, after skirting, is almost entirely of the natural "true black" color. Some light fibers remain that can yet be pulled out, but most have been removed throughout the several skirting and processing steps. Contaminants: Occasional flecks of loose vegetation. Other information about this fiber: - Fleece#: 43720- Fiber type: Peruvian Huacaya Alpaca- Source: Amazing Grace Ranch, Elizabeth, CO- Shear Area: Blanket- Color (nearest standard approximation): True Black (500 TB)- Animal Name: Ebony Joy- AOA Reg#: 30332348- Animal Gender: Female- Animal Birth Date: 8/7/2011- Shear Date: 6/9/2016 General information on the qualities, use, and processing of alpaca fiber: Fleece Areas: - Blanket (back from lower neck to tail): Best quality. Some animals have coarser guard hairs in the tips than others, and fiber diameter and qualities can vary by genetics, animal age, food, and annual environmental conditions. Gender does not substantially affect quality.- Neck and Belly: 2nd quality, somewhat coarser. Neck fiber is longer than belly fiber.- Legs and tail: 3rd quality, coarsest, and rather short Fiber diameter grades: - Grade 0, Royal Alpaca - under 18 microns- Grade 1, Ultra Fine/Baby - under 20 microns- Grade 2, Super Fine - under 23 microns- Grade 3, Fine - under 26 microns- Grade 4, Medium, under 29 microns- Grade 5, Intermediate, under 32 microns- Grade 6, Robust, under 35 microns- Grade 7, Coarse, over 35 microns Staple Length: In general, short fiber (around 2-4 inches) yields fluffier (warmer) but weaker yarn. Yarn from long fiber (around 4-7 inches) can be quite fluffy if loosely spun, or dense if more tightly spun, but with fewer tips exposed, this yarn is smoother and stronger. Fiber less than 2" can be used to make felt, but is not a normal choice to make yarn, unless it is a minor inclusion in a batch of longer fiber. Woolen and worsted: In making yarn, basic English types are "woolen" and "worsted", originally based on spinning wool but now applied to various types of fiber. In most basic description, woolen spinning uses fiber that is often simply carded, is not necessarily made very parallel in alignment, and may contain substantial neps (small clumps) and noils (very short fiber lengths). This produces a weaker, fluffier yarn. Worsted, meanwhile, uses fiber that is combed to pull out noils, neps, and contaminants, leaving longer fibers in a parallel alignment. These longer, parallel fibers move intact through the spinning process to yield smoother, firmer, and stronger worsted yarn. Handcrafted yarns commonly fall somewhere between these polar extremes, with a worsted purist diligently removing virtually all neps and noils, often even keeping the tips and the cut ends of the fiber in uniform orientation, and following through with a strictly defined spinning procedure.

Price: 24 USD

Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado

End Time: 2023-09-01T22:17:32.000Z

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