Neps

Probably a certain amount of convergent evo happening – both plants want insects to drop into the bucket – neps for food, phrags for pollination as the insect climbs out… ❋ Unknown (2008)

There are teeny tiny neps in it, from less than ideal length angora, but in the spinning it matters not. ❋ FUZZARELLY (2008)

I mentioned before that the fiber has lots of neps. ❋ Unknown (2005)

That way I can get a little ahead of the curve on the metallic bits and can pull out the worst of the neps and the little bit of grass and vegetable matter that's in the fiber. ❋ Unknown (2005)

It's also got a lot of little neps in it, so it will be hard to make a smooth yarn with it. ❋ Unknown (2005)

It should spin very evenly into a nice drapey soft yarn with all that silk, with a few neps for texture from the angora and a very subtle bit of sparkle from the Angelina fibre. ❋ Spinningfishwife (2007)

So I chucked in some stronger purples and a few shocking pink silk neps. ❋ Spinningfishwife (2007)

I just pull them neps off and they stick to my jeans. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Lots of little bags of Angelina fibre, lame threads, dyed neps and such. ❋ Spinningfishwife (2006)

The old name for it was _nœp_, _nep_, or _neps_, which was only the English form of the Latin _napus_, while Turnip is the corruption of _terræ napus_, but when the first syllable was added I do not know. ❋ Henry Nicholson Ellacombe (1868)

They have 10 spinning mills and every one of them complains about neps. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Quality continues to be the key for keeping U.S. cotton competitive in a global market and anything the industry can do to develop better varieties and better production techniques that reduce broken fibers, minimize neps and avoid contamination will increase potential for market share, says Michael Watson, vice-president of fiber competition for Cotton Incorporated. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Lots of people will say that you don't want this in your fiber anyways, but it's not always * just* neps, sometimes its unaligned fibers that get trapped in the tines, etc. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When I first started combing, I'd get a lot of waste and much of it looked useable, if it weren't jumbled in with the neps and the trash. ❋ Unknown (2009)