Pulled wool

Pulled wool has several alternative names such as "slipe wool", "glovers' wool", "tanners' wool"{{Cite book|last1=Bergen|first1=Werner Von|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wv0s7-vSxCAC&q=Slipe+wool+if+using+Lime+for+pulling+the+wool.|title=American Wool Handbook: A Practical Text and Reference Book for the American Woolen and Worsted Manufacturer, and Allied Industries|last2=Mauersberger|first2=Herbert Richard|date=1938|publisher=American wool handbook Company|pages=248|language=en|quote=Numerous other names are used in the trade for pulled wool such as skin wool , slipe wool , tanners ' wool , and glovers ' wool . }} and, "dead wool."{{Cite book |last=Harmuth |first=Louis |url=http://archive.org/details/dictionaryoftext00harmrich |title=Dictionary of textiles |date=1915 |publisher=New York, Fairchild publishing company |others=University of California Libraries |pages=51}}

The wool pulling industry deals with the fleece from skin wool or pulled wool. Sheepskin is the raw material for Wool pulling industry. Unlike the usual practice of shearing, the wool of a living sheep, the pulled wool is obtained from the slaughtered sheep raised in the meat industry.

Wool sheared from a live sheep is called "clipped wool" and pulled wool is the wool pulled out from a dead sheepskin. The latter quality is inferior and less desirable. {{Cite book|last=Picken|first=Mary Brooks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CbOI4TCcnbQC&q=The+wool+obtained+from+live+sheep+is+called+clipped+wool+and+that+from+dead+sheep,+pulled+wool.&pg=PA377|title=A Dictionary of Costume and Fashion: Historic and Modern|date=2013-07-24|publisher=Courier Corporation|isbn=978-0-486-14160-2|pages=377|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dTk6AQAAMAAJ&q=The+wool+obtained+from+live+sheep+is+called+clipped+wool+and+that+from+dead+sheep,+pulled+wool.|title=Electrical Record|date=1911|publisher=Electrical Record Publishing Company, Incorporated|pages=56|language=en}} Wool pulling industry has significant role in wool industry. In 1897, there was a monetary incentive in the United States to promote wool pulling locally. {{Cite book|last=Board|first=United States Tariff|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bi4uAAAAYAAJ&dq=Wool+pulling+industry+deals+with+the+Pulled+wool.&pg=PA60|title=Wool and Manufactures of Wool: Message of the President of the United States, Transmitting a Report of the Tariff Board on Schedule K of the Tariff Law|date=1912|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=60, 61|language=en}}

Mazamet in southern France was the biggest center in Europe for pulled wool. {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z3cnAQAAMAAJ&q=Mazamet,+France,+was+major+center+in+Europe+for+Pulled+Wool.|title=The Wool Digest|date=1949|publisher=International Wool Secretariat in the United States.|pages=9|language=en|quote= MAZAMET , FRANCE Development of Mazamet , France , as a world center for handling and treating sheepskins }}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=alpLAAAAYAAJ&q=Mazamet,+France,+was+major+center+in+Europe+for+Pulled+Wool.|title=World Wool Prospects|date=1934|publisher=U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Economics.|pages=18|language=en|quote=France is the world's most important center for the wooleå sheepskin trade . Exports of wool ... The wool pulling industry is located chiefly at Mazamet .}} There was a separate department (The Department of Tarn, France) was engaged in this profession with the manpower of 2200 in 1906. The city was used to import sheepskins from many countries for Wool pulling. As per records, a large number of sheepskins were imported into the town in the year, 1910.{{Cite book|last1=Jenkins|first1=D. T.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HZ3obCPDbwkC&dq=In+1910,+Mazamet,+France,+was+major+center+in+Europe+for+Pulled+Wool.&pg=PA768|title=The Cambridge History of Western Textiles|last2=Jenkins|first2=David Trevor|date=2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-34107-3|pages=768|language=en}}

The process includes the following steps such as seating, depilation and fleece removal.

• Loosening the skin

1. The chemical method involves the layering of sodium sulfide on flesh side.
2. Sheepskins is hung in moisten environment.

• Pulling the wool

1. Wool pulling (usually by hand)
2. They call it "slipe wool" if using lime for pulling the wool.

• Sorting

Fellmongering is the practice of removing the wool from a dead sheepskin.{{Cite book|last=Anstey|first=H. (Helen)|url=http://archive.org/details/ansteywestonguid0000anst|title=The Anstey Weston guide to textile terms|date=1997|publisher=[Great Britain] : Weston|others=Internet Archive|isbn=978-0-9530130-0-5|pages=52}}

Pulled wool, also known as skin wool, has been often of inferior quality, It was of short staple length, harsher and having less spinnability and was therefore primarily employed in lower to medium-grade woolen products.To make it more useful, pulled wool or skin wool has been blended with other wool qualities.

• Dead cotton: Cotton that has not matured fully or is immature is considered dead cotton. Spinning and dyeing dead cotton is also difficult.
• Sheep meat

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