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·        Batts – carded hunks of fiber as it comes off of a drum carder

·        Fiber – the unspun hair/wool/plant material (as opposed to thread which is spun)

·        Hank – a 560 yard long skein of wool, usually wound on a niddy-noddy or reel

·        Knot – a 40 yard strand skein of yarn wound on a reel or niddy-noddy that measures two yards in circumference = 80 yards

·        Niddy-noddy – double headed tool used in skeining spun yarn

·        Noils – Short fibers removed when coming the fleece; can be mixed with other wool and carded and spun

·        Pencil roving – thinner strips of roving roughly the diameter of a pencil

·        Rolag – finger sized roll of carded wool, ready for spinning to make woolen yarn

·        Skeining – winding yarn off the spindle

·        Sliver – strips of batts in one continuous strip

·        Tops – long fibers straightened by combing