The Long and Complex Process of Wool Processing
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Shearing sheep and processing wool involves several steps, from preparing the sheep to turning raw fleece into usable fibers.
This entire process requires a combination of traditional craftsmanship and modern machinery, and the quality of the final wool product depends on the care taken at each step.
The specific processes may vary depending on factors such as the type of wool, intended use of the final product, and the preferences of the manufacturer.
#shearing #wool #sheepfarming #sheep
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Wool, cotton, and linen are all biodegradable. Unlike polyester that fills up our landfills and doesn't break down.
It’s disgusting that humans have bred an animal that would die without humans because of its endlessly growing fur.
@@user-z1d-d5h They will die when their time comes, just like everything else and just like you. Relax. Complaining about humans like you’re not one of us. The whole point of domestic animals is that they live under the care of humans anyway.
Raising animals in huge concentrations for their hair causes massive environmental problems.
I refuse to buy any clothing or household fabrics with synthetic materials like polyester. It feels so cheap and is bad for our environment and health (microplastics).
Polyester is more durable though, I don’t like clothes that develop holes after only a few months
I just wanted to say that's one of the coolest thumbnail/title pictures ive ever seen
Two of my brothers and my mother in law, worked at Woolrich Woolen Mill.
All of the less desirable wool went to make blankets for the U.S. army.
They were scratchy but warm.
It’s amazing that your family has such deep ties to the textile industry! Woolrich Woolen Mill has a long history, and it’s interesting that your family was involved in producing army blankets. What was the experience like for them working at the mill, and did they share any stories about the process of making those scratchy but warm blankets?
“Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool? Yes, Sir, yes, Sir, three bags full…”
Yunno this rhyme, just made so much sense to me now
One for the master, one for the... (I've forgotten the rest 😂)
one for the master and one for the dame,
and one for the pretty lass who lives down the lane
Yess ! It was a best poem in early childhood! I also learnt 😅 . Pleasure from India ❤
People who wash dishes and laundry need to know about not using too much soap. The water is actually what does the cleaning, not the soap. Just add enough soap to make the water sudsy to remove the oil
@moosehead4497 Finally, somebody who understands that is is WATER that does the cleaning!
I cringe whenever I see a cleanser that says “rinsing not required” on the label. The marketing department knows that people will buy their product, thinking it means they can skip the rinsing step.
All it really means is that the cleanser residue is nontoxic. It doesn’t mean “clean.” Clean doesn’t happen until you rinse the soap and soil away.
I ask people to imagine washing their hair but skipping the rinse step. If that doesn’t get the message across, nothing will. would never wash your hair and skip the rinse strrp.
Soap is basically just used as a lubricant
This is part of my "if I get sent to another world knowledge" playlist
Where's the playlist
Wish I could go to a place where everything is made in the area. This is the way an economy stays good.
I will never again complain about the cost of wool yarn! Thanks, farmers and processors!
What an amazing process, props to the people who made all these machines so we can have warm blankets and clothes. Thanks sheepies!
I am Lacto vegetarian, I love human benefiting from animals.
@@mazedar_tv Never heard of that, but it always confused me how vegans refuse to use any animal products at all, not even wool, or leather, or milk, or eggs, etc. The sheep and alpacas need to be sheared. Cows die of natural causes. Dairy cows will be in pain if they aren't milked. Chickens lay eggs on a schedule at all times regardless of fertilization. If these animals are loved and cared for very well for their whole entire lives, why not use these products that are going to be produced regardless? I understand not wanting to raise a chicken to be slaughtered to be eaten, and I understand not wanting to have a dairy cow or chicken kept in a cramped pen used only for breeding or for their milk and eggs and then slaughtering them once they no longer produce those things. That is inhumane, but eating a non fertile egg that a beloved chicken (or duck, or quail) has laid as usual is nothing of the sort. 🤷🏼♂️
Wool is about 5% of the world fabric market.
NZ wool is about 5% of the world wool market.
Merino wool is about 5% of the NZ wool market.
And fine Merino wool is about 5% of the NZ Merino market. :)
Which explain why only about 5% of world population can effort to buy fine Merino shirts.
I think the demand for wool will pick back up soon with the "going back to natural" movement that is starting to gain momentum. I am a crocheter and love wool yarn but I am allergic so I can't use it without taking precautions. I get why it's so expensive though even from the dyers who sell the finished products.
Man, imagine fleecing 300 sheep a day for 200 days a year, that's 60,000 sheep in a year - that's an insane job.
Imagine sitting at the end of that belt (without ear plugs) pulling black wool out of white wool, 10 hours a day for the rest of your life. Do you know how bad lanolin stinks? What a horrible job.
Not 200 days per year but more like 60 - 80 days per year.
At $2 per that's a decent living.
It's backbreaking work, though; it's not something that can really be done year round. Anyway, sheep are only shorn during shearing season (usually spring).
For 20 years I worked on the assembly line at Chrysler. We processed a car every 49 seconds. I usually worked 6 days a week, frequently pulling 12 hour shfits. Of course there were line stops and breakdowns but one year I rough counted 108,000 vehicles through my particular station. Some jobs were "easier' than others but some included 3 differrent air tools with significant torque. Many jobs were significantly overcycled.. meaning you had to rush to complete the elements no matter how good you were at it. EVERY job came with repetetive strain injuries after a couple of months. Many years I spent working injured but so used to it I just pushed on. I'm retired now but my left shoulder will never recover. There are many consumer items.. like wool sweaters or automobiles that take a massive toll on workers health and well being.
Imagine running a billion dollar industry and all you want in return is just more grass 😶
God almighty is really great to give mankind such knowledge! He is ever merciful to us
This is a complicated process, the video gave me a lot of useful knowledge
At time stamp 04:12 it is indicated that there is a good amount of dirt/vegetable matter separated from each bale of wool. What becomes of this byproduct?
$2 per sheep and +/-300 sheep a day is about $600 a day. These guys earn more then engineers and doctors in my country. Wild
But the work is seasonal.
Many sheep shearers are considered self-employed. $600 for a day isn't that much after you account for all their own equipment costs, travel, and other overhead costs. Oh, not to mention the extra taxes on self-employed people. Most people are ignorant to all the costs associated with having your own business. He's not taking home $600 a day. Not even close.
And finally, the wool are made into sheep coats to keep the sheep warm during the winter.
What happens to the lanolin? I know there is a market for it and therefore must be a part of the process. A small aside would have been nice.
Fabulous video. Very informative. Thank you
Glad you liked it :)
2$ a sheep after 300 sheep is 600$ a day. this guy is making bank
guy at 8:20 sounded like he was about to explain how plumbuses are made
I loved this! 😊
Good informtive video and thanks for ur efforts ❤
New drinking game: drink every time they say "sheep"
Hi. Nice info. What is brand name for this blankets and is it available in India.... thanks...🎉
Where can I buy this wool blanket in the United States?
Witney. Centre of the blanket universe 👍
Charles Earley and Marriot were the best.
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I, too, try to avoid stained crotch wool.
Thanks for the information
AMEN‼️🙌🏼🐑🐑🐑 AFTER I JUST LOOK AT GOD'S PERFECTIONS IN THE WORLD🌍🌎...I CAN'T HELP BUT TO PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME‼️🙌🏼🙏👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 THANK YOU JEHOVAH YAHWEH GOD. IN HEAVEN‼️ YOUR THOUGHTS AND YOUR WAYS ARE SOO ABOVE MAN'S‼️ HALLELUJAH JESUS‼️🙌🏼
VERY INTERESTING AND EDUCATING VIDEO... THANKS FOR SHARING‼️😃👍🏼🙋♀️🔥🙏🏽👑✝️📖🔥🕊️🇺🇲
Amen and hallelujah
The Shearing of the Lambs
Who remembers the #THORNBIRDS ?
~$40 an hour sheerign sheep, not bad at all!
Baa, baa, white sheep, have you any wool?
Yes, sir, yes, sir, three bags full
One for the master, one for the dame
One for the little boy who lives down the lane
3:24 - 3:32 Haworth Scouring🙂
thanks for info👍👍👍❤❤❤
It looks like back breaking work to me.
bro be using jujitsu on sheep
Beauty contests
at 8:20 they hired the erotic novel narrator
Julian Branch
Nyc ❤
New York City is a Hellscape. Even worse than California. I didn't think how bad it was until tiktok videos started showing the true side of NYC. Thank God I don't live in that Concrete rectangular Hell.
Klocko Highway
The thumbnail broo 😢
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What? Typical shearer doing 300 per day must be very easy to shear. Not big merinos.
The workers who are trimming these animals will develop all types of back and spinal problems when they hit 50s-60s! Standing up with leg straight and bending over from the waist is one of the worst things a young person can do to their back/spine! They are screwed and they don't realize it yet!
people in lots of professions are screwed but don't find out to later in life.
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How cruel are we
I don't know you are the other people you are speaking off, but I will assume very cruel, since you brought it up. 🤣
@@Farm-World. The handling of animals in the video depicts cruelty mate. We don't do this neither do we harm or eat them. I however mentioned humanity as cruel ,how are we treating other fellow beings
@@nirmalsubramanian5370 this is not cruel, it's normal shearing behavior and the sheep are fine with it.
@@Farm-World. No problem brother/sister. Didn't mean any offence to you..We believe in the fact that whatever karma you do you get it back either in this life or the upcoming ones and been watching this cruelty a lot(you know the TH-cam algorithm). You might be taking care of them and I can't judge it sitting at my home.
@@nirmalsubramanian5370sheep and humans actually have a really important relationship, their wool helped us to live in colder climates and they depend on us to shear them and care for them
that annoying music sure does suck
Krimany!!!! 300 sheep @ $2/ea.....$600 a day. That's a good living (N.Zealand $ ??)......US$ that's about $240,000/yr. Oh, OK.......NZ 1$ = US $0.60 Still, US $144,000/yr. is a good living for Skilled Manual Labor.
Sheep always look relieved when being sheared.
That's what you think. How do you know that they feel,
@@agnelodsa788 wool is heavy and hot, and we can see signs of animals being stressed and uncomfortable when they have an excesive coat, like, they do not need to talk to know an animal is having a good or bad time
It's same when we get rid of armpit and pussy hair. Lol
@@agnelodsa788 Try wearing a heavy winter coat with a winter hat during a hot 100 degrees summer. And tell me how you would feel.
Por el peso de su lana
Just made me think of all the talent, artistry, industry, and hard work I wear every day.
How much wool do you actually wear?
Wool is such an incredible fiber. I've always been amazed at it's unique properties and even, after all these years, we haven't been able to replicate it. It's brilliant. We still got nothing on mother nature.
@@STANDINGONKINDNESS-s7h That's a very long post on something that wasn't part of the discussion. You should learn what the word hyperbole means.
@@MrMagyar5Hyperbole- Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.( E g. He was as big as a house)
As far as mother nature is concerned, I was also taught this too until I got a better understanding knowing where it came from.
I am glad that you were highlighted on your comment to me, but I was just stating how we give credit to a female deity, when the credit belongs to God. I am sorry that I hurt your feelings. My sincere apology because I stand on kindness.
@@STANDINGONKINDNESS-s7h My friend, I am a faithful and dutiful follower of Christ, but even He taught in parables and hyperbole. Mark 1:4-5. I am pretty sure John didn't baptize every man, woman, and child in Judea. God created the earth and all things in it, yet this earth nourishes us and provides for us during our mortal life. Much like a mother. One could even argue that the symbolism is there to say that Eve, mother of all, is Earth. That being said, we don't have the space nor time, to dive into the symbolic parables and hyperbole of the bible. Suffice it to say that when speaking to men, it's best to use language they can understand. (like parables). You didn't hurt my feelings. You simply gave a very long and elucidated response to 2 words which were meant for all to understand. Remember, when people are awed by the majesty and complexity of this earth and all things in it, where will it lead them? God bless and preserve you.
@@STANDINGONKINDNESS-s7h Amen. If it was just mother nature we'd be staring at 1 in 10 to the power of 100+ that it was all just a coincidence. None of this should be here unless there was intelligent design behind it.
Good boys and girls sheep for giving us this incredible material for just existing and eating grass. This was a great and useful video.
🐑🐑🐑🐑 Thanks
The price for wool from meat breed sheep is so low, that producers often throw it out. I have used it for years as a garden mulch.10-1-4 , retains >30% weight of water, keratin based so doesn't attract termites, can be used in pots to keep soil from falling out, along the sides of raised beds to fill in the gap as the soil settles or dries out, under downspouts and other potential erosion areas since weighted down wool will filter out particulate matter and slow down the water. Ask your local extension agent about small producers and offer them at least $10 for a large bag full. to help small farmers. I cover it with crushed leaves or thin layer of chips in public view areas since the white makes it 'glare'. The only problem I have is dogs like to drag it around and chew on it.
I remember a phrase I heard when doing re-enactments. From sheep to shirt takes about a year (when done by the woman of the house) I also heard that was why some Scots tribes would fight without a shirt on - too costly to risk ruining it.
2 minutes and 2 dollars per sheep. The shearer does 300 sheep. 600 dollars for 10 hours work. Thats good.
600 new Zealand dollars is about 370 USD.
@@hillbournesian still better than most jobs in USA
I need job plz contact me 🙏🙂
That's twice the Ontario min wage. Nearly $30 an hour
Dealing with a living creature, that's a good wage.
I'm sorry?! Only $2 a sheep no wonder there's a major shortage in the shearing industry
Problem is there not a lot of money in wool now days . For each Shearer you need a rousie to sweep up and gather the wool. While the Shearer is paid per sheep the rousies are paid per hour. Therefore farmers don't want to pay for new shearers as they may only shear 100 or so sheep a day which means the rousies work more hours and get paid more for less wool.
At the pace of a good shearer, That's a six figure yearly salary.
300 sheep a day at $2 a sheep is going on $60- $75 an hour. That a better pay rate by far than anyone I know personally.
Ah food shearer with a healthy well maintained sheep can accomplish a full shear in 3 minutes. This is how they can do 300 sheep a day.
The thumbnail picture is excellent 👌🏻
Thanks 🙂
@@Farm-World.
Pleasure 😘
Watching from Pakistan 🇵🇰
10:11 One essential component of a loom weaving machine is the loom reed, a structure that looks like a comb closed on both sides. Its job is to keep the threads evenly space while allowing them to move up and down. One part of the loom is the wire used to make the vertical "teeth" of the comb.
My family owned a shop in Paterson NJ that made that wire. We would take raw, round stainless steel wire and roll it to the correct thickness, then use cutters to reduce it to the correct width and cut angles into the corners. From there, we used files to smooth out the edge, then ran the wire through a series of straighteners to remove the curve induced in the previous processing. Finally, we ran it through a lime box to remove any remaining oil, then rolled onto a reel and sent it out for delivery.
The shop was built by my great grandfather in 1901, when Paterson was a textile powerhouse. It passed to my grandfather, then my father. By the time I became an adult, Paterson was no longer a good place to run a business, so when my brothers and I declined to take over, my father sold the shop.
It’s fascinating that your family shop played such an integral role in the loom weaving process by producing loom reed wire! What was it like growing up around this kind of specialized manufacturing, and do you have any memorable stories from the time when the shop was still operating?
Bruh 2$ per sheep 300 *2=600$ per day 😮
That’s back breaking work tho! And taxes lol!
spend most of it on Beer after a hard days work 🍺
Very few people here In the states make 600 a day
@@williamjones6053don’t forget though this isn’t a 365 days a year industry, though some shearers may travel the world I imagine
Consider it is a job done seasonally, so most of the year they don't have work.
As a pharma chemist I use cholesterol that is extracted from (specifically) New Zealand wool grease.
Wow, YT sent this to me out of the blue. What an amazing process. I can't imagine how difficult this must be if you didn't have machines.
It is. Right now I'm sitting on a wool bed cover woven by my grandma in the 70s.
We had some sheep. Grandma would spin the wool herself then weave it in beautiful patterns. Later, they'd give the wool to be pinned using machines.
As a manufacturer of woolens, we appreciate this vid. Nice work, THANK YOU!! Really terrif that so many people have viewed it!! Also, I've been a customer of Bollman and Ladd Hughes. Several years ago, there was a problem. "Someone" downstream from Ladd improperly discarded a substantial amount of our wool, and it amounted to real money for our company. Even though it was NOT NOT his fault, Ladd covered our entire loss because he wasn't going to let one of his customers take a hit!! I wholeheartedly recommend Ladd and his team at Bollman!! --- Ralph
Wow that is an amazing process. Thank you for the clip.
Shearing sheep looks pretty fun. I bet the sheep look forward to it.
Yeah everything is fun and games until you slip one of those spine discs on your back and in deperate need for surgery. lol
I did 20 years in the Army…the shearing made me think of that initial haircut in basic training…lol
At least the sheep shearers take care not to nick the skin when they do it.
Granted it’s because it lessens the value of the wool to nick them, but at least they try to avoid cutting the sheep
I don't know who all in these comments has actually done this before...but this dude makes this look so easy. It seemed harder than that when I did it as a kid. Proper form, once again, is everything.
@@Flyboyminer after 1000 shearings I'm sure you'd do pretty well yourself.
No wonder wool from New Zealand and Australia is so expensive! It's a tough job to process it.
Well done! Very informative. Thanks a million.
Wool makes great loft insulation and is much healthier than blown glass fibre.
Merino Sheep is tough for sharing than other sheeps. Love from kashmir India
Can you shave a woolly mammoth for us?
So glad this art and skill still exists ❤
Wool still makes up a large amount of clothing production, so there’s no reason for it to disappear
The wool is washed in hot water and dried with hot air and washed again so why do wool garments shrink??? I work in a dry cleaner and one lady brought in a cashmere sweater that she washed and it now fits a child. Why does wool shrink???
Oddly satisfying watching them shave sheep lol
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Background music is horrible and too loud!
Nothing warmer than a wool blanket!
Just $2 to sheer a sheep? Should probably be paid more I think 🧐
Each sheep only takes a few minutes though. It's probably around $$18-20 an hour. That's the problem with making money off of animals. The margins are tight.
Should be more for fellow NZ legends
Hobby farmers have to pay much more per sheep to have them shorn by a professional shearer. Otherwise, it’s not worth the shearer’s time to turn up.
At 600 dollars a day clown
Why dont they bathe the sheep before sheering ?
🤯😨😱💥💥💥👎Thoses poor workers! They are poorly protected from these production lines hazards : No respiratory protections, no hearing protections, no hand protection. That's Murica, with almost no Workers Unions to protect and fight for their rights. And this is Texas, by the way. Peace and Prosper.
unions are for losers, especially these days.
$600/day for shearing sheep is more than I expected.
Got to keep in mind that it's only a short season where you can do that, it's not all year round
Завораживает! Я люблю вязать, особенно из шерсти, мериноса.... Но никогда не видела, как животных стригут.... Спасибо за видео
Great video. I am also very curious how this was done prior to modern technology. I know shearing were done manually with clippers but it seems the cleaning and prep would had been quite labor intensive.
I haven't done much myself, but I've seen demonstrations of traditional wool working. The washing had to be done by hand, and the carding was done with hand-held wire-toothed carding combs. The fibers were spun either with a spinning wheel or a drop spindle, and then the yarn could either be knitted or woven on a manual loom. I've done some manual spinning, and it's not too hard, but it's fiddly work because you need to keep the thickness of the yarn even as you add more bits of wool into it. Weaving is fun, especially if you like playing around with different colors and paterns.
In effect, you've got all the same steps as shown here, just that you first have to pick out the rough dirt by hand, pluck it, wash it several times (personally, I use a bit of grated up traditional soap mixed with wood ash lye and a tad of natron for the first three washes in hot water and and then rinse the wool with increasingly colder water about 4-6 times), then dry it either on a clothes line or lay it out on a bit of framed wire mesh. Once dry, I again pluck it, then card it 2-3 times using a drum carder (which is already a fairly modern way) and then blend it (I take the batts apart and card them again, mixing different batts together, since we've got two different breeds of sheep and I want a reasonably consistent quality throughout the fabric later on). Alternatively, hand cardes or wool combs can be used. After that, it's spinning with either a spinning wheel (which is what I use) or hand (drop) spindle. To stop the yarn from unravelling, it needs to either be steamed/boiled to set the fibre, or two threads have to be spun in the opposite direction to what they were originally spun in (can't remember, what the English word for this process is). Last is, obviously, weaving, which includes several steps also. Sorry, since English isn't my first language, I unfortunately don't know the terminology, so I better not try and explain. But setting up a large loom, can take a week or more, before you can even start weaving.
Anyway, yes the work that goes into wool fabric doing everything by hand/ using basic tools, is insane. It puts into perspective, why clothing was so valuable, especially compared to fast fashion these days. I'm currently onto spinning, and at this point, it's already 100+ hour of work I've invested. And seriously, if I didn't find this relaxing and rewarding, I wouldn't be doing it since it's not my actual job. And even then, it can get tedious at times.
@@CalliopePonyThe more you spin, the easier and faster it becomes and you quickly learn to draw out the right amount of fibres to ensure an even thread. That said, I'm horrible with a drop spindle and definitely prefer a spinningwheel, while a friend of mine is equally good using the one or the other. But I guess, I should take my own advice, and just spin more often using a drop spindle. It's just, I've got a mountain of wool to spin and am eager to start weaving it into fabric... 🤷♀️
Acá en chile le lavaba a mano a orillas de los rios luego se ponía a secar sobre sacos extendidos luego seca se golpeaba con mucha fuerza(latigazos) con varitas de sauce y ya luego se "escarmenaba a mano o sea se abrian y esponjeaban los trozos y salía lo último y a los sacos para llevarlos a hilanderas con husos de madera para hacer los ovillos.
@@amaliamedina5068 That is so interesting! Never heard of wool being beaten after it had been washed and dried before. Do you know if it's done to get rid of dust or to get any remaining moisture out? Or perhaps to fluff it up a bit already? And are you talking sheep or alpaca?
Good job with the video and thumbnail mate!! Hard to get going sometimes with small channels. Best of luck!
Thanks, and yes, it's still slow going, but even wonder world started off slower.
I don’t farm or raise sheep yet here I am, watching Maa and Paa get a shearing.
Someone should make a wool fursuit and make $14,000 out of this.
Only natural enough to call it a real fursuit
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Do the shearers ever get a sheep that is...
*really*
... into being sheared? Like Family-Guy "F'ing SHEAR me - oh yeah - just SHEAR that right off..."
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A wool sweater is best in Norway when temp outside is from -10 to 10 degress and little wind. U can use this sitting inside your home, and go out, and dont have to change or put on a jacked. I mostly use wool sweater at spring and autumn for this combine. Wind over 1 m/s if its very cold, i put on a jacket.
Et encore là y a max de pétrole et de minerais utilisés. 10 jours c’est rapide et ce n’est pas vraiment un process durable
Lower quality wool can also be used for safe loft insulation. Its flame proof as, when flamed, wool produces self extinguishing steam.
I appreciate this video. It's very well done.
Thanks I appreciate it.
9:40 this might as well be talking about making a plumbus. I have no clue what most of these words mean.
ماشاء الله تبارك الله رائع عندنا في تونس نتعامل مع الصوف بدويا كل الشكر فيديوا رائع🌹
ممكن اتواصل معك انيس