Wool Tasting - What Does It Tell You About the Structure of Wool?

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Wool tasting was an experience that i did at a wool shop called and woolly, up in north london and clapton. We were presented with an egg box full of six different wools that were unnamed. And we had to sort of knit up a small swatch of them and sort of experience how they behaved underhand. So this was what was really fascinating to me, because wool is not a material that we study in material science.

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