Natural Fibers

          I have a bunch of notes about Natural fibers, so I'm gonna put down what notes I took, and tell you what I learned from it. 
          Natural fibers is the foundation of fabric. First it goes from fibers, then that goes into yarn, and then that goes up to fabric. Fiber looks like a small, hair-like substance that is called wool. It's warm and of course from a sheep. Then there's a part where lanolin comes in. They use lanolin in cosmetics, shampoo, and ointment.
          Now, silk will be used later on in my fashion class. So silk is a protean fiber, also very expensive. But, I also learned that worms play a part in this. they give us the fiber we need. They give it by going into an egg, there the egg is covered with these hair-like stands. Then the sheep is also a player too, when we shave the sheep we brush it out.
         You take the wool piece and brush it out gently, making sure it doesn't break, and then making a stop when the wool piece is long and smooth. But not ropy looking, that's what we don't want it looking like. 
          Then you take the wool piece and you spin it by taking it around your hand, but not too tight, and moving your hand in a motion that spins the wool. You want to do this until the long wool piece is tight twisted and ready to twine into each other. Once it's at that point, you take the two end and push them together, and at the bottom you'll see the long middle pieces twist together. After that you cut the two ugly end pieces and TADAA! you just made yourself a little piece of yarn, when I did it in the classroom it was so much fun, and such a big learning experience. But, also. All these are NATURAL FIBERS!





(pic cred: https://aos.iacpublishinglabs.com/question/aq/1400px-788px/natural-fibers_56b7fb259e780339.jpg?domain=cx.aos.ask.com )