YarnAddict
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roving/tops/sliver?What's the difference? I bought some stuff labelled as 'sliver' the other day and some stuff at FibreFest labelled 'tops', but it all looks very similar to the roving I've bought from Natalie. So what's the difference? 
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KnittingLadybird
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I thought this forum was all about chocolate cake and stuff Anni  
I like yarn but I can't eat that and feel guilty, so that I have to buy yarn to try and take the feeling away....usually end up nuying more choclate to get rid of the yarn guilt then 
But answer your question....dunno it looks the same to me too 
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YarnAddict
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I read th title as 'Spin City'. Thought this was th spinning section.  What's the spinning section called then? How do I move this thread? HELP!!!
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Binty
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 @ Yarnaddict ............. are you lost??
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KnittingLadybird
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I think it's that -------------> way opver in the 'In A Spin' forum
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terri
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there you go anni
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n
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Roving is really applied to pencil roving like my merino.
Sliver is a long section of unbroken fibre about as thich as two or three fingers, and tops is just combed or carded fibre.
If you think of how fibre becomes yarn, first it's washed (scoured) and then combed into long sections ready for the spinning machines, (sliver) then the next stage is to make the sliver into a finer length, some people call this roving, others call it first draft. The next stage it to spin it into yarn.
Tops and roving are often interchangeable terms, which is why I call the finer fiber "pencil roving". On the site I call it all roving because it starts getting complicated if there are too many subdivisions.
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YarnAddict
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Thank you Natalie (and thanks to Terri for moving me ) I once was lost but now I'm found...
So, Natalie, can you spin sliver then? And can you use the term 'roving' for sliver? I've bought stuff labelled as tops, roving (not pencil roving) and sliver and they all look the same to me. Are the terms interchangeable? They explained all abuot why ti's called 'tops' when I went to Coldharbour Mill. It was quite interesting seeing all the stages the wool goes through before it's spun.
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I've never seen spinning roving described as sliver once it's dyed, but I do think that for handspinners, most people just think of "fibre" these days.
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