noils

Examples

• The short combed-out wool is called noils, and is used in making carpet yarns, ground up into shoddy stock, or utilized in spinning fancy yarns.

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• The cloths made from waste products, such as noils, are not much inferior in quality to those produced from the wool from which the noils are obtained; but the great majority of cloths made from other waste products are much inferior.

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• Noils are divided into classes, namely, long-wool noils, short or fine-wool noils, mohair noils, and alpaca noils.

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