Week 4 Working with Wool Lab- Group B Data

The lab data collected was an accumulation of the 3 processes for manufacturing yarn that we learned today, including Carding (a sort of continuous disentangling and aligning of fibers using multiple different types of brushes/combs, in order to remove knots, clumps, and other earthen materials from sheep’s wool), spinning (using a spindle and your clean wool to make yarn of a sorts- though consistent size is quite difficult) and finally dyeing (which involves plants of some sort that are known for producing a good dye color, then the plants get heated in some way with some water and your yarn, while calcium carbonate gets added to make the water as basic as possible until the dye gets drawn out of the plant, and your yarn attracts the color of the dye because of the aluminum phosphate in it). This data focused specifically on the outcome of the spinning process as well as the dyeing process.

Weight of final produced wool yarn per group member (in grams):

Sophia– 32.1 g Shemsy– 6.7 g Patrick– 11 g Ian: 9.8 g

Temp. of water-root combo (from dyeing process) at start and at end:

Start– 11.6 degrees celsius/52.88 degrees farenheit

end– 71 degrees Celsius/160 degrees farenheit

Dye Ratio: 1 to 1

Disclaimer: several (at least 10) minutes worth of lab data lost (and sacrificed, in terms of the timeline of the yarn being dyed) to the point in the lab during lamb intermission.