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A skein of wool can come in different weights. There is not a specific amount of wool needed in a skein.
No. Worsted wool is sourced and processed differently from other types of wool. You can read more about worsted wool, below.
A bale of wool. Or a skein of wool.
Skein is a non-standard length of spun fibre, which can be wool or any other fibre.
This varies with the thickness of the yarn. A conversion from weight to length should be given on the ball band. For worsted weight yarn 400 yd would be about 227 g.
Skein
A bale of wool
You can wash worsted wool pants by hand. Washing them in the washing machine can cause them to become damaged or misshapen.
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Yes, a small amount of wool yarn can be called a skein, especially if the fibre is rare and expensive, such as baby yak wool yarn.
Collective nouns for wool are a bale of wool or a skein of wool.
I guess you have half a 100g ball of the wool (since 1.76 oz is approx 50g). Depending upon the actual make up of the wool, a full 100g ball is 200 to 240m in length, so half a ball is 100 to 120m in length which is 109.4 to 131.2 yards in length.