HISTORY OF WOOL

What is wool?
Wool is a soft curly or wavy hair forming the coat of a sheep,goat or an similar animal.

Where does wool come from?
Wool comes from sheep goat and any animal that is similar and it is used to make yarn and polyfill.
It is cut off using shears.

• Wool comes from sheep goat and any animal that is similar and it is used to make yarn and polyfill.
• They wool is cut off with shears.

Growth?
first the sheep need to grow the wool.it mostly comes from sheep but also comes from alpacas,camels,and goats.....

Harvesting wool?
They need to cut the wool of the sheep.the process is called sheering.a sheering specialist can shear 200 sheep a day.female sheep can produce 15 pounds of wool.male sheep cam produce up to 20 pounds of wool.

Grading?
Wool is graded for fineness and length.
The length varies from place to place on the animal, but it mostly varies amongst sheep.

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