Wool Nepps are tiny bits of merino wool… think of them like CONFETTI in your fiber art party! These little guys are actually a bi-product of wool processing, and are fabulous for creating texture and little clusters of color as you might often see if felting pictures, wet felting and nuno felting projects.

How do you use wool NEPP felting?

I was happily placing wool nepps onto my felty beach postcard and I remembered how I’d struggled with nepps in the early days, so I’d like to share this tip. Wool nepps are small balls of tangled fibres that can be bought in many colours, or you can buy natural and dye your own.

What do you use wool Nepps for?

Wool nepps are tangled knots composed of short wool fibers. These fibers come from second cuts that happen during sheep shearing. They would have been wasted, but luckily they can be used in wet felting and yarn spinning. In the form of nepps, they add some colors and texture to handmade felt and art yarns.

What is NEP fiber?

A nep can be defined as a small knot (or cluster) of entangled fibres consisting either entirely of fibres (i.e. a fibre nep) or of foreign matter (e.g. a seed-coat fragment) entangled with fibres. From this core, an array of fibres extends 5 to 10mm, sometimes even up to 25 mm, in length.

How do you control Neps in carding?

The most critical setting in a carding machine is between cylinders and flat can be close as 0.2 to 0.25 mm; neps are directly affected by this setting. Very close setting increase the flat waste. Normally the setting between the feed plate and licker in is around 0.45 to 0.7 mm.

How do you remove Neps from fabric?

Carding both generates and removes neps. Carding is the most significant process where significant decrease in the level of neps can take place. It was also observed that with finer cottons, increasing the card licker-in speed increased the card web neps.

How do you reduce thickness in yarn?

Increase in twist binds the yarn more tightly together which reduces on the number of thick places/km.

How do you reduce neps in yarn?

When flat speed increases, it reduces the neps content and short fiber content of sliver and increases the fiber parallelization, thus decreasing the unevenness. Irrespective of the flat speed, the yarn unevenness increases as the yarn becomes finer as expected.

What is Neps fabric?

Neps Devalue Cotton A nep can be defined as a small knot (or cluster) of entangled fibres consisting either entirely of fibres (i.e. a fibre nep) or of foreign matter (e.g. a seed-coat fragment) entangled with fibres. In contrast to the loose arrangement of a worsted nep, a cotton nep generally has a tight formation.

What is yarn hairiness?

Yarn hairiness is defined as hairs protruding from the main body of a yarn. The amount of hairiness is important to both the textile operations and the appearance of fabrics and garments.

How do you reduce a Classimat fault?

The blends with lower viscose content shows less occurrence of classimat faults. Increase in the fiber length increased the total faults but increase in the fiber denier decreased the total faults. Fiber length and denier have significant effect on A & B type of faults.

What is the main difference of thick place and Neps?

Thin places indicate the mass reductions, thick places indicate the mass increase and neps indicates the increase of short mass. Average of ten tests was taken for final result at each trial.