The Wool Handbook

The Wool Handbook: Morphology, Structure, Property and Application explores fundamental aspects of wool fibres as well as traditional and novel applications of wool in areas including polymer composites and technical textiles. Apart from textiles and garments, wool has long been used for various diversified applications due to its unique material properties. Wool is inherently fire resistant, antimicrobial, flexible, and antibacterial, and as it is a natural material it can be used to create environmentally sustainable products. This book explains both the basics and advanced topics related to wool fibres, from shearing to marketing, drawing on academic and industrial research from a range of subjects. Providing statistics, processing methods, and testing and characterisation techniques for wool fibre, this book will help readers to use wool fibres to find new applications and solutions. Provides advanced testing methods to explore the material characteristics of wool Includes the latest industrial methods for physical and chemical processing of wool Case studies explain how wool fibres have been made into successful bio-based composite and textile products