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Carbonised wool -  Wool that has been treated with sulphuric acid to remove vegetable matter from scoured wool.
Carded wool -  Wool that has subjected to carding, whereby fibres are opened out and separated to give a web of fibres, crossed and recrossed.
Cashmere -  fiber from several different varieties of goats.
Charkha -  word used in India for a spinning wheel
Combed wool -  Wool that has subjected to combing, whereby fibres are made to lie parallel to one another in a rope or combed top.
Cottage Industry -  an industry whose labor force consists of family units or individuals working at home with their own equipment
Croft -  a small rented farm, especially one in Scotland, comprising a plot of arable land attached to a house and with a right of pasturage held in common with other such farms
Crofter's Agency of Edinburgh -  marketed crofters tweed in the south