[Cob] Coblist Digest, Vol 5, Issue 31

[Dulane]

Thanks for your input. More research needed. Have you ever seen it used for 
insulation?

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From: "DL" <*****>
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Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 10:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Cob] Coblist Digest, Vol 5, Issue 31


| YIKES!! Folks,
| I'm a spinner and I belong to a local spinning guild here in Seattle. I 
can
| assure you, that in the grease wool is courting trouble. Critters love the
| dirty wool. You don't have to take my word for it, check with the
| NWRSA=Northwest Regional Spinner Association or any spinning association 
or
| the Woolmark folks. Might I suggest that you at least check out this link
| http://www.goodshepherdwool.com/  You will find that the wool is treated
| with boron,and you can get a FREE sample.
| Other than that this site http://www.borax.com/ gives a lot of information
| about borates and it's uses. Take a look at this site: or here
| http://www.sheepwoolinsulation.ie/ (Ireland I believe)
| Dial Corporation is the maker of 20 Mule Team Borax. My boatload of wool, 
is
| scoured, bagged, then stored in barrels with 20 Mule Team Borax. If you
| scour the wool with borax don't let it soak in the water with borax more
| than 10 minutes, then after make sure you use VINEGAR to adjust the ph in
| the final rinse, borax saponifies with lanolin, which means it's on it's 
way
| to being soap! Type in wool on the Rio Tinto site.
|
| Dee
| >
| >Hi,
| >
| >I wrote about this earlier this year. I'm in Western WA. My
| >son-in-law is a sheep herder. He has sheep out doing
| >environmental work in sensitive areas.
| >
| >He also has a pretty good accumulation of sheep wool. He just
| >has it packaged in gunny sacks, which most aren't burlap these days.
| >
| >If anyone is interested in aquiring sheep's wool for roof
| >insultation, please let me know. I've heard that you don't
| >want to wash it too much, because the lanolin helps keep
| >critters out of it.
| >
| >Dulane
| >
| >If man makes it, don't eat it.
| >Jack La Lanne
| >
|
|
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