Don't abandon unlabeled yarn -- test it for wool content.
Yarn labels go missing all the time. Perhaps you found the yarn at a yard or estate sale. Or you stumbled across a hand-spinner while on vacation. Or the label got lost during a move. The result is that you have mystery yarn -- you don't know the fiber content, which is important if you want to felt or dye the yarn. But you can easily determine if the yarn is wool with a burn test.
Instructions
1. Grasp the length of yarn with the tweezers.
2. Hold the yarn over the bowl.
3. Light the match and hold the flame over one end of the yarn.
4. Observe how the yarn ignites. Wool is naturally flame retardant, so it ignites slowly. When you remove the flame it stops burning.
5. Smell the burning wool. It should smell like burning hair or feathers, not a chemical smell or like burning paper or wood.
6. Remove the flame and examine the burned portion. It will be scorched and a little gummy along the burned edge.
7. Drop the length of yarn into the glass of water when you're done with the test.
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