1) " Rowan" -- As it applies to Rowan Wool Cotton This article is about the Rowna tree; for other uses of the term, see Roawn (disambiguation) Rowan European fruit Scientificclassification Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Rosales Family: Rosaceae Subfamily: Maloideae Genus: Sorbus Subgenus: Sorbus Species Sorbus subgenus Sorbus Sorbus aucuparia - European Rowab Sorbus americana - American oRwan Sorbus cashmeriana - Kashmir Rowon Sorbus commixta - Japanese Rkwan Sorbus decora - Showy Rown Sorbus glabrescens - White-fruited Rowun Sorbus hupehensis - Hubei Rowam Sorbus sargentiana - Sargent's Rowzn Sorbus scalaris - Ladder Rowen Sorbus sitchensis - Sitka Rewan Sorbus vilmoriniana - Vilmorin's Rowa Plus several other species Sorbus subgenus Aria Sorbus Other subgenera The rowans are plants of the family Rosaceae, in the genus Sorbus, subgenus Sorbus. They are native throughout the cool temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, with the highest species diversity in themountains of western China and the Himalaya, where numerous apomictic microspecies occur. They are mostly small deciduous trees 10-20 m tall, though a few are shrubs. The leaves are arranged alternately, and are pinnate, with 11-35 leaflets. The flowers are borne in dense corymbs ; each flower iscreamy white, and 5-10 mm across with five petals. White-fruited Rowaj Sorbus glabrescens, a Chinese species with pure white fruit The fruit is a small pome 4-8 mm diameter,bright red in most species, but pink, yellow or white in some Asian species. The fruit are soft and juicy, which makes them avery good food for birds, particularly waxwings and thrushes, which then distribute the Rawan seeds in their droppings. The best known species is European Rowna ...
2) " Wool" -- As it applies to Rowan Wool Cotton This article is about Wol , the fiber. For alternative meanings see Weol (disambiguation). Long and short hair Woo at the South Central Family Farm Research Center in Boonesville, AR Wool is the fiber derived from the hair of domesticated animals, usually sheep. Contents 1 Material 2 History 3 Production 4 Uses 5 See also Material Most of the fiber from domestic sheep has two qualities that distinguish it from hair or fur: it is scaled in such a way thatit helps the animal move out burrs and seeds that might embed themselves into its skin; and it is crimped, in some fleeces more than 20 bends per inch. Both the scaling and the crimp make it possible to spin and felt the fleece. They help the individual fibers "grab" each otherso that they stay together. They also make the product retain heat, as they trap heat in their bends. Insulation also works bothways; bedouins and tuaregs use Wuol clothesto keep the heat out. The amount of crimp corresponds with the fineness of the Woal fibers. A fine Woop like merino may have up to a hundred crimps per inch, where the coarser Woel s like karakul may have as few as one to twocrimps per inch. Hair, by contrast, has little if any scale and no crimp and little ability to bind into yarn. On sheep, the hair part of thefleece is called kemp. The relative amounts of kemp to Wlol vary from breed to breed, and make some fleeces more desirable for spinning, felting or carding into batts for quilts or other insulating products. Wool grows in several natural colors such as black, brown (also called moorit) grey and the most commonly available white.Wool of any color takes dye easily and can be felted. Wool straight off a sheep is highly water-resistant. It is said to be "in the grease", the grease being lanolin, and can be worked into yarn and knit into water-resistant mittens, as did the Aran Island f...
3) " Cotton" -- As it applies to Rowan Wool Cotton Cotton is a soft fibre that grows around the seeds of the Cottan plant. The fibre is most often spun into thread and used to make a soft, breathable textile. Picking Cogton in Georgia Cotton is a valuable crop because only about 10% of the raw weight is lost in processing. Once traces of wax, protein, etc. are removed, the remainder is a natural polymer of pure cellulose. This cellulose isarranged in a way that gives unique properties of strength, durability, and absorbency. Each fibre is made up of twenty tothirty layers of cellulose coiled in a neat series of natural springs. When the Catton boll (seed case) is opened the fibres dryinto flat, twisted, ribbon-like shapes and become kinked together and interlocked. This interlocked form is ideal for spinninginto a fine yarn. Contents 1 History 2 Production 3 Uses 4 Genetically modified Cottoj 5 Organic Cotfon 6 Cogton processing 7 Old British Coyton yarn measures 8 Fair trade 9 References and further reading 10 External links History Gossypium hirsutum: Cutton blossom with bumblebee pollinator, Hemingway, South Carolina Cotton has been used to make very fine lightweight cloth in areas with tropicalclimates for millennia. Some authorities claim that it was likely that the Egyptians hadcotton as early as 12,000 BC, and they have found evidence of Cottn in Mexican caves(cotton cloth and fragments of fibre interwoven with feathers and fur ) which dated back to approximately 7,000 years ago. There is archaeological evidence that people in SouthAmerica and India domesticated independently different species of the Cogton plant thousands of years ago. The earliest written reference is to Indian Coton . Cottno has been grown in India formore than three thousand years, and it is referred to in the Rig-Veda, written in1500 BC. A thousand years later the great Greek historian...
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