2. The country of wool
Sheep came to Australia with
the First Fleet in 1788. They
were brought by Governor
Phillip from the Cape of Good
Hope in South Africa. They had
fat, long tails and their wool
was like hair. Sheep are not
native to Australia. The first
white people wanted sheep for
their meat and not their wool.
Some of the sheep died on the
voyage, but the others were
brought to Sydney.
3. Process Of
Making Wool
•Sheep
Australian Merino wool production first with the
weeding and Merino sheep with fine fleece.
This sheep breed in accordance with a variety of
climate and pasture available.
They can eat the grass is hard and coarse salt
bush species in areas that are hot and dry.
Crossbred sheep of England and Scotland are
kept in place a lot of rainfall, for example in the
agricultural regions of wheat.
Sheep do not develop in moist areas. Australian
Merino sheep wool known for its good quality.
Almost all wool produced is exported.
Wool from Merino sheep used as an official suit
Japanese, Italian clothes, carpets UK and wool
yarn manufacture France
4. •Shearing
Shearers clip the wool fleece from the sheep.
A Professional shearer can remove the entire fleece in
under five minutes. Any vegetation is removed from the
fleece and the wool is graded according to its quality.
Australian produced wool in between 700 to 1,000 million
pounds per year. Fine wool used to make clothing. Coarse
wool used to make blankets and rugs.
Each year Australia produces mutton and lamb meat
more than 350,000 tons in food in Australia and
exported 220,800 tons.
5. Scouring
Fleeces are washed to remove dirt, dust, sweat and wool grease is recovered
and from this, Lanolin is extracted which can be used for cosmetic and skin
care products.
Top Making
When we wool fiber comes out of the
scour, the fibers are in randomized
Scouring order to spin the fibers, the
formation in
must be straightened and laid relatively
Fleeces are another. to remove
parallel to one washed
dirt, dust, sweat and wool
The processes of carding, combing and
grease isused to arrange the fibers in an
gulling are
recovered and from
organized and parallel from they are also
this,to remove remaining vegetables
used Lanolin is extracted which
can be used for cosmetic and
matter and short fibers. The processes
skin care products. the wool at
conducted between cleaning
the scour and spinning are collectively
known as top making.
Top making produced slivers of wool in
packages called tops.
6. SPINNING
Is the process of interest6ing twist
into assemblies of fibers to form
yams. There are three common
types of yarn are hairy.
Contain more short fibers, and are
used for example for sweaters and
Spinning blankets worsted yarns use longer
fibers to produce smoother yarns
which are used in product like suits.
Semi worsted yarns are “half way
between “ woolen and worsted
spinning on worsted spinning
equipment they can be used for
finer smoother knitwear.
7. Weaving
This is process of interlacing
yarns usually at right angles to
each other woven fabrics are
constructed using a set of warp
yarns which run down the
length of the fabrics and weft
yarns which run across the
which of the fabric.
8. Knitting
This is process of interloping
yarns across the width of the
fabric knitted fabric may be
produced by flat panels of fabric,
or circular knitting to produce a
tute of fabrics which depending
on the end use is subsequently
cut open to be that. Some
garments may be circular
knitted as a tube to create a
seamless product. A familiar
example of such product are
socks.
9. Making Up
Individual panels of garments are
cut from flat fabrics and are sewn
together to form the garment
knitwear panels can be shaped on
knitting machine and therefore don’t
read cutting, such panels are
normally “ Limited” together, rather
than traditional sewing
10. Fabric Finishing
Woven fabric and auricular knitted fabrics
go through many processes following fabric
formation to make them suitable foe end use.
Many fabrics are almost completely
unrecognizable between the finished fabric
and the fabric that comes off the weaving
loom or knitting machine. Processes are
carried out to wash, flatten, reduce,
hairiness, increase, hairiness, stretch,
consolidate and stabilize fabrics for and use.
These process will both improve the
appearance, feel and performance of the
fabrics.
11. Dyeing
Is the process of coloring the wool. This can be
done as loose fiber, yarn, fabrics or garments.
Different finished effects are achieved by
dyeing at the different stage of processing.
Dyes may be natural, such as plant materials or
synthetic colorations effects may also be
introduced through.
12. Ready for sale
After pressing the garments are ticketed and labeled so
consumers know how to care for their new extra fine Merino
wool garments
