A method has been found to prepare bulk samples of wool fibers in such a way that reproducible compression tests may be performed upon them. An evaluation of the bulk compression characteristics of 29 widely different wool samples shows that compressive load, rather than resilience, serves to bring out differences among them. This finding suggests that quality differences among wools, as determined by handling, is related to differences in the wools' resistance to compression rather than to differences in compressional resilience.
展开▼
