Wool
The wool which is
soft, durable and easy to work is the most widely used rug making material.
Good wool should have the softness with strenght. Best wool comes from the
lambs between 8 and 14 months and living in colder highlands. But sometimes,
as also the name of the carpet might indicate the wool comes from the flanks
and shoulders of the lamb where the fibre is longest.
Process of wool
First the wool is
washed and carded, a process which teases the wool into longer and straighter
fibres. Then fibres are hand spun into a continuous thread which is twisted
with other threats, in the opposite direction that they were spun, to form the
yarn.
