Suits, are they made of wool?

Hi
I want to know if you buy a suit with the tag "Pure new wool" with
content of 100% wool, does it really mean they are made only with wool
? On the invoice of my Jones New York it was printed "Suit Bengaline".
Is there any trick to detect suit that are not made of 100% wool? Also
what they mean by Super 100, 120? the number of fibers by inches?

Thanks

alph...@hotmail.com (alpha mu) wrote in message news:<859fd25d.0310272044.48b81...@posting.google.com>...
Should be. Quality clothes proof the seal of the international wool
secretary (IWS).
More quality security provide well–known high–end manufacturer such
the Italian: Reda, Scabal, Cerruti, Loro Piana, and Zegna. The raw
wool comes mostly from Australia merino cheeps.
Its the length of 100 gramm fibre in meteres??
The higher the number the better, the more expensive. At that time
maximum is Super 200, very rare quantities and very expensive, f.e. by
Scabal.
www.scabal.com/
http://www.ofda.com/technical/b3.htm
Generelly Super 150+ is very wrinkle–resistant, but also very
fine/thin, not recommendable for cold winter times.
cu Carlo

Hello, if the tag is pure new wool than the fabric is 100% wool.
Super 100,120 or 200 refer to the degree of finess of the wool, the
higher the number the higher the quality. For more technical
explaination refer to
http://www.hollandandsherry.com/textileguide/superfine.html .
The most easy to test whether the fabric is pure wool is the burn test
which smell like burning skin. If they are any polyester in it, the
residue is some solid burned rubber. But obviously we cannot burn a
suit down. Any suggestion?
Thanks
Hwa Seng Textiles www.hst.com.sg
Goh Cher Peng
CarloKes...@gmx.net (Carlo Kessel) wrote in message news:<e6dc5c39.0310311136.4078e...@posting.google.com>...

That info is a bit misleading... The best cashmere, known as
"super–white" can get down to ~9 microns, finer than vicuna.
Rick
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Rick,
This is the first time i heard about super–white. can you share with
us further information on this. thanks.
Hwa Seng Textiles www.hst.com.sg
Goh Cher Peng
"Rick" <...@privacy.net> wrote in message news:<bob9la$1c9gh...@ID–82690.news.uni–berlin.de>...

Super–white cashmere is hand gathered from wild goats in the
Central Altai region of Siberia. The amount produced each year
is incredibly small. These goats are exposed to extremely cold
winters in the wild, so their down is finer (and warmer) than any
breed of farm–raised goat, or goats raised in other regions such
as outer Mongolia. In especially cold winters the down can get
to as little as 9 microns.
The majority of the world's dehaired cashmere comes from
Mongolia, the very best of which generally produces down in
the 11–14 micron range because of the warmer winters.
It should also be noted that the term "super white" is used by
other cashmere producers to refer to any high grade, dehaired
cashmere, but the real super–white is rare to find and almost
never used in commercial production.
Rick
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