Elements and Performance Criteria
- Separate wools with characteristics outside the uniformity requirements of the Code of Practice.
- fibre diameter
- length and strength
- colour and character
- handle and style.
- Separate wool showing faults that impact on processing or fabric quality.
- Wool is examined for dogginess that will impact on fabric quality.
- Wool is checked for cotts that will require extra processing.
- Skin pieces are identified and removed.
- Wool is checked for dermatitis and kept separate.
- Wool with a level and type of vegetable matter contamination that requires different processing is kept separate.
- Mobs with high pigmented fibre risk are recorded according to the Code of Practice and their wool kept completely separate from low risk wool.
- Wool from sheep with shedding characteristics is identified and kept completely separate from non-shedding white woolled sheep, with any risk of exposure documented on the classer's report.
- Fleeces containing pigmented fibre in a white woolled flock are kept separate.
- Wool containing stain is kept separate.
- Recognise impurities of greasy wool and their effect on processing and yield.