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Croatian wool – high performance fibre instead of waste

According to the State department for statistic there are 800 thousand native (domestic) sheep in Croatia, and approximately 900 tons of sheared wool per year. This wool is not used in Croatian textile industry as raw material since the overall perception is that it is too coarse for fine wool products, and that is why it is mostly disposed in the environment regardless of its limited capacity to accept such kind of waste (Vujasinovic and Soljacic, 2006). In order to avoid harmful influence of domestic wool on the land and to revive interest in this Croatian only one textile raw material, wide-ranging field and laboratory investigations were started at the Faculty of Textile Technology University of Zagreb. Employing a systematic analysis of experimentally obtained data, especially fineness, medullation, bulkiness and sorption as well as the comparison with such data for the wool of similar characteristics (following the accepted standards of IWTO, WRONZ & AWTA), it is concluded that majority of Croatian domestic wool (e.g. wool of the predominant sheep breed, so called pramenka), with a proper clip preparations (Vujasinovic and Raffaelli, 1994) and environmentally friendly scouring (Vujasinovic, et al, 2007), can be used not only as replacement for some imported coarser carpet wool, but also as highly capable sorption material. Such suitability to be used in high added value product (technical textiles) can raise the interest in, and market value of Croatian domestic wool assuring it rightful place in Croatian economy and future sustainable development.

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