Silk Laps, Thistle, 1014-06, mulberry silk, nuno, wet felting, spinning fiber, art yarn, handspinning, felting fiber, corespinning Amount:1 oz Bluefaced Leicester wool with 2

Silk Laps, Thistle, 1014-06, mulberry silk, nuno, wet felting, spinning fiber, art yarn, handspinning, felting fiber, corespinning Amount:1 oz Bluefaced Leicester wool with 2Hand dyed mulberry silk laps. Cut across the grain about six inches staple length. What is a silk lap?? When silk cocoons are carded, the shorter, clumpier fibers are left behind on the carding machine drum. The fibers build up and then they are removed in big sheets (each sheet is one lap around the drum). Silk laps are lightly textured with varying lengths of silk fibers and some chunks. They are actually quite easy to spin, and have a wonderful

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