Mohair

Vegetable (based on cellulose) cotton (qv), linen, hemp, jute, ramie Animal (based on proteias) wool (qv), mohair, vicuna, other animal hairs, silk Mineral asbestos (qv)... 

Mohair (angora wool) Angora goat (Capra hireus)... 

Mohs scale of hardness An empirical scale that grades the hardness of minerals from 1 (softest, talc) to 10 (hardest, diamond). mohair See angora. 

Vegetable timber, cotton, cork, sisal, hemp, straw, reed, cane, capok, rattan, etc. Animal wool, silk, fnr, mohair, horse-hair, intestine, down, ivory, horn, sponge, beeswax etc. 

Received April 11, 1966. Conducted in part under contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, authorized by the Research and Marketing Act of 1946. Contract supervised by the Wool and Mohair Laboratory, Western Utilization Research and Development Division, Agricultural Research Service. 

Although fibers can be classified in numerous ways, in terms of present-day technology, they are fundamentally classified as(l) natural libers, and (2) synthetic libers. The principal natural fibers are cotton, wool. and. to a much lesser extent, silk. liax. and mohair. Synthetic tihers have made inroads into the use of all natural fibers, bul the greatest impact has occurred in connection with the latter three libers. Cotton continues to be a major textile fiber, measured in terms of billions of pounds used per year. Colton is one of the most versalile of all libers and blends well with synthetics. This is also true of wool, bul lo a somewhat lesser extent. Synthetic Fibers. Introduced in 1910 as a substitute for silk, rayon was the first artificial or synthetic fiber. Rayon, of course, differs completely in chemical constitution from silk. Rayon typifies most reconstituted or synthetic fibers, which perform almost as well and. in a number of respects, far better than their natural counterparts Some of the more recently developed synthetic libers have lilile if any resemblance to naturally available fibers and thus enlirely new types of end-producls with previously unobtainable end-qualities are available,... 

Alpaca0 CameFs hair Cashmere wool Llama Mohair Vicuna... 

R. R. Franck.2001. Silk, mohair,cashmere and other luxury fibres. Woodhead Publishing. 

Highly effective scouring agent for wool, mohair, and other animal fibers. 

Amino acid Merino 70 s Merino 64 s" Corriedale 56 s" Lincoln " Mohair Human hair Range of variation of lowest value)... 

Simmonds comments (1958b) that the ready uptake of dyes by mohair, which Dusenbury and Menkart class as orthocortex, may be due to the presence of a high content of ionizable side-chain groups. As remarked earlier, however, the correlation of differences in amino composition with microfibril/matrix and ortho/para ratios is complicated by the fact that both the low- and high-sulfur fractions are complex groups of proteins with variable over-all amino acid compositions (see Section II,D,4). 

Calhoun, M. C., Huston, J. E., Baldwin, B. C., Jr., Kuhlmann, S. W., Engdahl, B. S., and Bales, K. W. (1990a). Effects of cottonseed meal source and dietary crude protein on performance of early-weaned lambs With observations on gossypol toxicity. In "Sheep and Goat, Wool and Mohair, Research Reports. PR 4790." Texas A M University System, College Station, TX. 

Wortmann F J, Quantitative fiber mixture analysis by scanning electron microscopy. Part III Round trial results on mohair/wool blends , Textile Research Journal, 1991,61, 371-374. 

Mohair comes from the Angora goat which is bred in Turkey, South Africa, and the United States. It produces cloths with outstanding resistance to wear, and is used for upholstery or, in combination with wool, for making clothing. 

Interdepartmental Angora Goat and Mohair Committee, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture... 

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