Shoddy

Illustration of shoddy

Description

Recycled wool as defined by the US Wool Products Labeling Act of 1939. Shoddy is composed of wool fibers obtained from either new rags and table clippings or from worn garments. Fibers from worn garments are weaker than the new fibers. Shoddy can also refer to recycled rubber or leather. Mungo is a poor quality type of reworked wool with shorter fibers than shoddy.

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Synonyms and Related Terms

sackcloth; reclaimed wool (Br.); recycled wool (U.S.); reused wool; mungo; lana reutilizada (Esp.)

Authority

• Rosalie Rosso King, Textile Identification, Conservation, and Preservation, Noyes Publications, Park Ridge, NJ, 1985

• Fairchild's Dictionary of Textiles, Phyllis G.Tortora, Robert S. Merkel (eds.), Fairchild Publications, New York City, 7th edition, 1996

• Edward Reich, Carlton J. Siegler, Consumer Goods: How to Know and Use Them, American Book Company, New York City, 1937

• M. Doerner, The Materials of the Artist, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1934

• G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 880

• Richard S. Lewis, Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 10th ed., 1993

• Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997

• The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998