The women prepared, spun, and dyed the wool.

妇女们将羊毛预备、纺线并染色。

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Wool can be spun from fleeces.

羊毛可以纺成毛线。

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At the mill the wool was washed and spun into knitting yarn.

在工厂对羊毛进行洗涤和编织。

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Leicester Civic Society's chair, Stuart Bailey, said the building on the Grand Union Canal, where wool was spun from the latter half of the 19th Century, was an important reminder of Leicester's heritage.

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In her workshop at the Limerick Craft Hub, she showed me how the technique just involves a strip of silk, some lengths of spun wool, some water and a couple of hand sanders.

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The "story" is about how wool has been dyed and hand spun into tweed by islanders for centuries and how in the 1840s it was first brought to the attention of commercial markets by a widowed aristocrat, Lady Dunmore, after she fell in love with the material.

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