That means separating the unwanted coarse outer hair of the goats from the valuable ultrafine cashmere underfleece, which measures just 12 to 18 microns in width (one sheep wool fiber is more like 25 microns wide).
Italian merchants might, for example, lend to English sheep farmers or wool merchants, in return for lower prices.
Sperotto Rimar, Mr Fochi's firm, sprouted originally because of the sustaining presence in the region of Marzotto and Lanerossi, two textile firms that some 150 years ago found in the steep hills north of Vicenza fast-flowing streams to drive their looms, and sheep to provide wool.
By our reckoning, just about every man and his dog is getting involved, and occasionally even some sheep ( Shearing and Wool Handling Championships).
Even when wet, a Golden Retriever scarf doesn't smell any more like dog than a typical wool sweater smells like sheep, she says.
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In Afghanistan, Duck-worth has a dozen people setting specifications (wool must be from sheep in Gazni, Afghanistan) and working with the families and health care providers.
There will be no tungsten sheep-fleece, but sheep in future will grow not just more wool, but softer wool.
Rings of wool were observed on fields where sheep carcasses had lain.
Named Blanket Bay (after the blankets used by sheep shearers here in the 19th century to keep wool dry), the resort is the type of luxe but rough-hewn lodge one might expect to find in the Adirondacks or at Lake Tahoe.
Chappell's newest business venture is Rambler's Way Farm, which this summer will start selling long underwear knitted by American workers from superfine wool taken from Maine, Montana and Dakotas-raised sheep.
My wife and I own a small sheep farm in upstate New York offering for sale our livestock and wool products both online and at festivals and fairs in many states.
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