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It wasn’t until after completing my woolclassing training
that I realised how important how it was to be able to recognise
the tactile qualities of wool without using any visual stimuli.
Before a fleece was consigned to a bale with a AAA brand on it,
It would have to be rated as some of the softest wool in its category/class.
To help improve our tactile skills a trainer asked us
to class/categorise wool using touch only.
The fleece sitting on the end of my wool table
would have been held back to donate to a local fleece show fund raiser.
Therefore it would have been one of the softest I produced each year.
