In the first decades of the 20th century a customer was still able to recognize offered yarn, which was mostly sheep's wool, cotton and linen. Today it is fundamentally changed. Even to a specialist now it is very difficult, without technical auxiliary devices, to determine the composition of a yarn. In order to protect the consumer, the law stipulates that the soft parts of garments have to be marked as pure wool, or clothing with a large percentage of wool.
An important difference for the market use of wool is the difference between pure new fleece and mixed wool.
Since 1972. The Consumer Protection Act takes care for marking textiles for unique labeling of textile goods, which still applies to all countries of Europe and the European Union.
By law, the designation »pure fleece wool« can mark only the wool that has been sheared from live sheep, which means that it is a product consisting entirely of wool fibers, which has never before been contained in a finished product and not subjected to anything else, except the necessary process for the production and certainly not allowed and do not contain any additives for wool. |
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According to the law for marking textiles with sheep wool, because they have similar properties, wool sheep was agreed to be equal to following animal hair: alpaca, vicuna, llama, camel hair, hair of the angora-tame rabbits, from angora goats-i.e. Mohair goats of Kashmir and yak-buffalo from central Asia. All products manufactured by these fine hairs, which by definition satisfy the notion of pure fleece wool, can bear this name on their labels.
Code tags »mixed wool« shows that the product contains the remains of woolen yarn that can originate from worn clothing.
Labels such as »worsted« or »shorn yarn« are not showing quality, but deal with the process of spinning, so they are purely technical terms, the yarn for handicraft work is primarily the product of combed yarn (not the same as the product of mixed yarns ).
If a yarn is labeled »pure wool« or »only wool«, we can be sure that it is a yarn that contains 70% wool.
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