Talk:Staple (wool)

Really?

This article is fundamentally wrong with regard to how wool grows (in staples? that is meaningless.) I'll see if I can dig out some old books for clarification. -Roxy the dog bark 14:27, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

Actually, it turns out that it isn't fundamentally wrong, its crap. I'm not sure, and don't care, how it got this way, but I'd like to see it sorted out, either by deletion, or merging as the suggestion at the top of this page, from six years ago.

The lead of the 'article' is not supported at all by the body, and appears to be synthesis from a horrible misunderstanding of the source used.

For background, the word 'staple' is a textile industry Term of Art describing the nature of fibres, indicating that the sample is made up of discrete individual fibres. Wool is a staple fibre (discrete lengths of fibre) while silk is not, it is a continuous fibre that is spun by the silkworm, extruded through a spinnaret during its pupation stage.

for info, the opposite term is 'continuous' and so we get, staple fibre (all natural fibres including wool are staple fibres,) and continuous filament fibres, (mostly man-made or synthetic.) See my comments on silk above. Nowadays man made and synthetic fibres are produced as continuous or staple, depending on end use.

Suggestions? -Roxy the dog. bark 15:38, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

I've waited long enough, and intend to do something. Soon ... Roxy the dog. bark 15:59, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

I'm baaaack. -Roxy, the dog. barcus 07:59, 13 July 2018 (UTC)