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