| Angora Goat | | Home of Ashford |
| Mother Of All | | the foot pedal that turns the main wheel |
| Double Drive | | the weighted part of a dropspindle that helps it to spin |
| Flyer | | two upright pieces of wood that hold the flyer |
| Noil | | The matting together of fibres |
| Teasel | | Yarn with an unusual character |
| Indigo | | the unwashed fiber as it comes off of a sheep |
| Distaff | | a pair of brushes used to smooth and straighten fibers for spinning |
| Whorl | | The product of a "worm" |
| Treadle | | The process of applying a permanent color to fiber |
| Carders | | a bundle of flax prepared for spinning after the tow has been removed |
| Grease Wool | | yarn spun with a clockwise spin |
| Hank | | a tighter-than-normal rolag traditionally used with cotton |
| Drop Spindle | | used to process long stapled wool for worsted spinning |
| Crimp | | winding two or more yarns together |
| Dyeing | | the straight piece of wood or wire that connects the treadle to the axle/crank |
| Puni | | very thin roving |
| Combs | | maidens, flyer and bobbin |
| Novelty | | A plant with a large prickly head used for raising or fulling fabric |
| S Twist | | length of a lock of fleece or a single fiber |
| Acrylic | | carded hunks of fiber as it comes off of a drumcarder |
| Orifice | | the u-shaped device on a treadle spinning wheel that twists the yarn |
| Bast Fibers | | double-ended tool used in skeining spun yarn |
| Plying | | short fibers removed when combing the fleece |
| Maidens | | grease wool that has had the dirty edges removed all the way around |
| Roving | | the sheered coat of wool off of a sheep |
| Footman | | a stick with a weighted whorl that is used to twist fibers into thread |
| Tow | | amount of curl in a lock of fleece |
| Bump | | the pulling out of fibers to allow only a certain amount of the fiber to twist into yarn |
| Fleece | | A four horned, spotted sheep |
| Jacob | | Both the flyer and bobbin are driven by belts from the "large" wheel |
| Drafting | | The small tool that is used to help form and even top in wool combing |
| Cabled Yarn | | Bluefaced or Border |
| New Zealand | | The product of plying two or more plyed strands together |
| Diz | | Yarn from a reel |
| Ewe | | Material obtained from the stems of certain types of plants. These include flax, hemp, jute, ramie, milkweed, and nettles. |
| Navajo Churro | | the short fibers left after flax is combed out |
| Micron | | The most accurate way of determining wool grades |
| Cotton | | In 1912 a Lincoln and Rambouillet were crossed to creat the |
| Strick | | the opening or eye of the spindle on a treadle spinning wheel |
| Wensleydale | | long tube of carded wool, produced by carding machines |
| Niddy Noddy | | A cylinder of coiled, prepared fibers ready for spinning |
| Leicester | | yarn spun with a counterclockwise twist |
| Z Twist | | Sheep breed with blue head, ears and legs |
| Skirted Fleece | | Native American double coated sheep |
| Staple | | A cellulose fiber collected from the perennial shrub from the genus Gossypium |
| Batts | | A manufactured fiber made from long-chain synthetic polymers |
| Rolag | | A blue dye |
| Silk | | a mature female sheep |
| Pencil Roving | | The animal that produces "mohair" |
| Felting | | a staff that holds the flax or wool fibers which are drawn from as the spinner needs them when spinning. |
| Columbia | | finger sized roll of carded wool, ready for spinning to make woolen yarn |
