Worsted Manufacture-General Observations on Wool.

WooL is the filamentous substance which covers the skins of sheep, and some other animals, as the beaver, the ostrich, the llama, the goats of Thibet, of Cachemir, &c. These varieties of wool serve for the manufacture of various stuffs and fabrics used for raiment and other purposes, under the name of broad cloths, kerseymeres, baizes, flannels, worsted stuffs, merinos, castorine, vigontines, cachemires, &c. Sheep's wool alone possesses the fulling or felting property.