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SPINNING TERMS 

• Card... Process fiber into roving
• Roving... carded fibers
• Draft... a fan-shaped bunch of fibers ready to be spun
• Scour... wash a fleece
• Fleece... all of the hair/fiber from one goat shearing
• Staple... length of individual fibers
• Dehair... separate primary hair from secondary hair
• Tease... gently pull apart locks of fiber
• In the grease... unwashed
• Twist... spiral of fibers being spun into yarn
• Skirting... removing stained locks, second cuts, matts and kemp areas from a sheared fleece
• Kempy... hairy
• Breaks... weak fiber
• Grade... to separate fleeces by fineness & length of their fibers