Much the same process as was gone through with in the Noble comb, is
repeated, except that now only the Noble top is combed, and as all of
the fibers, less than two and a half inches, have been removed from this
mohair, the comb is set so that any fibers shorter than four or five
inches, shall be held as noil, and only those fibers which are longer
than four or five inches shall be included in the top. This combing
completed, we have a collection of mohair fibers none of them less than
about five inches in length. This top is now ready to spin. This combing
is rendered necessary by the fact that all of the mohair contains an
admixture of kemp, and kemp cannot be spun with the finer grades of
mohair. In getting this kemp out of the mohair many of the short mohair
fibers are lost, so that combing is an expensive process. It costs in
time, labor and mohair.