One important thing about this whole Wool Journey is that basically we have described getting from the sheep to the yarn, with various options along the way.  However, a yarn is still actually only an incredibly versatile raw material, ready to be made into something!

The options for wool yarn are huge: from lace ring shawls to heavy, hard-wearing carpets or fire-fighter clothing, from natural coloured to amazing dyed shades.  So here we are only just preparing a pack of yarn for the amazing further journeys.  Even so, each kilogram of spun single yarn may go through up to 7 further processes to get it ready to leave our mill.

We already mentioned cones in part 14, as the way in which single yarns are almost always packaged.  Cones have the advantage of density and carry a large quantity of yarn in a relatively small volume.