The idea began at a time when raw wool prices in Nova Scotia were very low and ideas were needed to enhance income generation for the producer community. “The cost of shearing sheep was even more than ...

Traditional handmade woollen goods struggle to find buyers, with modern factory-made clothes and cheaper alternatives ...

Felting begins with the collecting of sheep wool, an essential raw material. Wool is collected during the shearing season, where it's carefully sheared to maintain its quality. Next, the wool is ...

Now, sheep can’t molt without human help, though we’re using little of their wool. Because consumers today favor softer and less expensive synthetic fibers, an enormous output of raw wool ...

The International Wool Textile Organization estimates that in 2021 alone, some 1.2 billion sheep created 4,296 million pounds of raw wool. But not all of that wool made it to our sweaters and socks.

After cleaning and separating hundreds of tiny cuttings of merino sheep wool, the researchers measured the curvature of each fiber, and then observed the wool under a microscope. They found that ...