Seed contamination in sheepskins

The word “contamination” simply or plainly refers to an alteration in the initial quality of a product or something; such alteration often reduces the quality of that product or something. This definition is more like an intro to this article; before proceeding to what contamination of sheepskins is all about, let us have a little clue of what sheepskins are and any other valuable fact about sheepskins.

What is a sheepskin?

A sheepskin plainly refers to the hide or skin of a sheep, which sometimes is called a lambskin. Dissimilar with common leather, a sheepskin is usually suntanned with the coatings intact, as in a fur. Tracing the origination of sheepskins, they have been in existence a thousand years ago and were used by the early men.

Quality

The moment any individual wants to purchase a something, quality of the product is what comes into his or her mind. The quality of sheepskins used in any application is dependent on several factors, such as if the pelt which is the outer layer of the hide, will be obvious or not. If the pelt is to be visible, then better quality sheepskin with least seeds will be used.

Contamination of sheepskins

Now that we’ve known about sheepskins and what quality of sheepskins is all about, we will be proceeding to what seed contamination is. Seed contamination refers to where there are remains of patches of wound tissue, ensuing from cured seed hole wound during the time when the animal was living. One thing about a scar tissue is that it can fall out creating small hole after the sheepskin is processed, or it can cause deficiencies which cannot be corrected by remaining in place.

Contamination of seed includes:

Invisible seed

One of the ways to grade seed contamination is through invisible seed. Like we know that invisible means something not being able to be seen, that is same with invisible seed contamination. Visually, the seed is not contaminated, but that doesn’t mean the sheepskin is completely free, it’s only free visually

Light seed

Another way of grading seeding contamination is via light seed; you know this when there is a small seed contamination visible within the wool, but least mostly in the belly areas.

Heavy seed

This kind of grading seed contamination is usually obvious when there is an extension through the major parts of the wool, especially the belly regions and legs of the wool.

Medium seed

This kind of grading of seed contamination is known whenever there is the presence of light seed all over the surface of the wool, but highly concentrated with the regions of the belly and legs.

In addition, seed contamination are not the only diseases of sheepskins, other diseases are:

• Dead wool

• Re-growth

• Louse infestation

In conclusion, any wool or sheepskin that is affected by any of the problems mentioned above, is not suitable and healthy to be used. Ensure you go for the best of sheepskins you want.