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Fabric and greasy wool handle, their importance to the Australian wool industry: a review

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posted on 2024-06-13, 16:09 authored by JWV Preston, S Hatcher, BA Mcgregor
Handle-related properties of woollen fabrics have been demonstrated to be major factors affecting consumer buying attitudes. Handle is the combination of both textural and compressional attributes. Compressional handle has demonstrated processing advantages in woven and knitted fabrics. The handle of processing lots can be manipulated using a variety of technologies but direct manipulation of textural greasy wool handle pre-processing is still crude. On-farm, there is documented evidence that including handle assessment in a selection index provides additional improvements in genetic gain. However, the assessment of greasy wool handle is based on a tactile evaluation of the wool staple by sheep and wool classers, and its application is affected by a lack of framework that instructs assessors on a standard method of assessment. Once a reliable and repeatable protocol is developed, further understanding of the effect greasy wool handle has on final garment quality will be possible.

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Journal

Animal production science

Volume

56

Pagination

1-17

Location

Melbourne, Vic.

ISSN

1836-0939

eISSN

1836-5787

Language

eng

Publication classification

C Journal article, C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2016, CSIRO Publishing

Issue

1

Publisher

CSIRO Publishing

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