We visited the St. Peter Woolen Mill to learn about how wool is processed. I will let the students explain this to you in detail next week when they submit their papers, but for now here are the pictures. The mill is one of only three in the U.S. that will give you back the same wool you send in for processing. Customers drop off bags of wool like this: The wool is washed in the metal tub with wool wash and hot water, put into the adjacent extractor to remove the water, and then tumbled in the dryer just visible in the left corner of this image:
The wool then goes through the picker and the carder, seen here:
We also stopped at Knit & Sew World, also in downtown St. Peter, for a demonstration of a knitting machine. I'll share a student's reaction paper with you next week.
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