ABSTRACT
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A detailed information on wool structure, chemistry, and technology are covered in the
published proceedings of eight quinquennial international wool textile research conferences:
Australia, 1955; Harrogate, U.K., 1960; Paris, 1965; San Francisco, 1970; Aachen, Germany,
1975; Pretoria, 1980; Tokyo, 1985; and Christchurch, New Zealand, 1990 [1-8]. The proceed-
ings of the Harrogate and San Francisco conferences were published, respectively, in volume
51 of the Journal of the Textile Institute (December 1960, number 12) and in Volume 18 of the
Journal of Polymer Science, Applied Polymer Symposia (1971, parts 1 and 2). The proceedings
of the other conferences were published by the organizers of the conferences. Crewther et al.
[9] and Bradbury [10] published two important reviews of the investigations of wool structure
using biophysical and biochemical techniques in 1965 and 1973; the first came from
the CSIRO Division of Protein Chemistry in Parkville, Australia, and the second from the
Australian National University in Canberra. Keratins, authored by Fraser et al. [11] in 1972,
describes the composition, structure, and biosynthesis of epidermal and fibrous keratins. The
Chemistry of Natural Protein Fibres by Asquith [12] includes chapters on the structure and
