Hand combing method

To thoroughly understand how combing machines carry out the combing process, it is worth mentioning how wool was manually combed in the past. This process included three main operations and precisely:
1. introduction of the fibre tuft in the comb;
2. combing of the head of the fibre tuft;
3. extraction and combing of the tail of the fibre tuft 1) Introduction of the fibre tuft in the comb (Figure 1). The "p" comb was fixed to a wall with the needles tips directed upwards; the comber took a

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