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inorganic materials, such as mineral wool and glass wool, that have some properties similar to animal wool. Wool is an animal fiber and consists of protein...

Look up wool in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wool is the textile fibre obtained from sheep. Wool may also refer to: Alpaca wool, derived from fur...

the short story "Wool", which was later published together with four sequel novellas as a novel with the same name. Along with Wool, the series consists...

Breeda Wool is an American actress, writer and producer. She is best known for her roles as Lou Linklatter in the Audience crime drama series Mr. Mercedes...

Mineral wool is any fibrous material formed by spinning or drawing molten mineral or rock materials such as slag and ceramics. It was first manufactured...

Wood wool, known primarily as excelsior in North America, is a product made of wood slivers cut from logs. It is mainly used in packaging, for cooling...

Lanolin (from Latin lāna 'wool' and oleum 'oil'), also called wool fat, wool yolk, wool wax, sheep grease, sheep yolk, or wool grease, is a wax secreted...

Cashmere wool, usually simply known as cashmere, is a fiber obtained from cashmere goats, pashmina goats, and some other breeds of goat. It has been used...

Steel wool, also known as iron wool or wire sponge, is a bundle of very fine and flexible sharp-edged steel filaments. It is the most common type of wire...

television series created by Graham Yost, based on the Silo trilogy of novels (Wool, Shift, and Dust) by author Hugh Howey. Set in a dystopian future where a...

breed or group of breeds of domestic sheep, characterised by very fine soft wool. It was originated in the Iberian Peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal) during...

series: Wool (2012), fix-up novel of one short story and four novellas: "Wool: Holston" (short story), "Wool: Proper Gauge" (novella), "Wool: Casting...

Glass wool is an insulating material made from glass fiber arranged using a binder into a texture similar to wool. The process traps many small pockets...

Bronze wool is a bundle of very fine bronze filaments [citation needed], used in finishing and repair work to polish wood [citation needed] or metal objects...

Maltolt or "bad tax" (in Norman-French) was the name given to the new taxes on wool in England of 1294–1297. Protests against the maltolt played their part in...

Vicuña wool refers to the hair of the South American vicuña, a camelid related to llamas and alpacas. The wool has, after shahtoosh, the second smallest...

Wool is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Christopher Wool (born 1955), American artist Dan Wool, American composer and sound designer...

England that designated towns for the overseas export of key commodities like wool, allowing the Crown to monitor and regulate overseas trade and collect customs...

The Wool Road (also later known as 'The Old Wool Road') was a historic road in New South Wales, Australia, that ran from Nerriga to what is now called...

texture. It is much warmer and lighter than wool due to the hollow core of the angora fibre. It also gives the wool its characteristic floating feel. Angora...

The Salish Wool Dog, also known as the Comox dog or Clallam Indian Dog, is an extinct breed of white, long-haired, Spitz-type dog that was developed and...

Steel Wool Studios, formerly Steel Wool Games, is an American video game development and publishing company located in Oakland, California. It was founded...

Look up shoddy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Recycled wool, also known as rag wool or shoddy, is any woollen textile or yarn made by shredding existing...

The Wool Hall is a recording studio in the village of Beckington, near Frome, Somerset, England. It was originally a residential studio set up by Tears...

Wooler (/ˈwʊlə/ WUUL-ə) is a town in Northumberland, England on the edge of the Northumberland National Park, near the Cheviot Hills. It is a popular base...

Wool is a large village, civil parish and electoral ward in south Dorset, England. In the 2011 census the parish – which includes Bovington Camp army base...

pre-Columbian era. Llamas are social animals and live with others as a herd. Their wool is soft and contains only a small amount of lanolin. Llamas can learn simple...

Wire wool is a generic term for products made of filaments entwined, woven or otherwise agglomerated into a sort of felt pad or belt that is often rolled...

fibres in a wool fleece. This hair is not desirable in a fleece, as it does not accept dye, minimizing both the quality and the value of the wool. Kemp fibre...

Australian grazier and wool industry leader. Among other industry roles, he was a long serving chairman of the Australian Wool Board. He is associated...

(grading) it accordingly. Wool classing is done by a wool classer. Some of the qualities a wool classer examines when classing wool are: Breed of the sheep:...

Glenn Wool is a Canadian stand-up comedian based in England. He has released six albums, including 2020's Viva Forever, produced by Dan Schlissel for Stand...

Christopher Wool (born 1955) is an American artist. Since the 1980s, Wool's art has incorporated post-conceptual ideas. Wool was born in Chicago, Illinois...

The Fruit and Wool Exchange was an exchange market in Spitalfields, London. Opened in 1929, it served as a distribution centre for produce that arrived...

A wool bale is a standard sized and weighted pack of classed wool compressed by the mechanical means of a wool press. This is the regulation required method...

The Wool Products Labeling Act is a U.S. regulation enacted in 1939, which makes provisions for the accurate labeling of products containing wool fibers...

Wool& (stylized as wool&) is an American womenswear brand that produces merino-wool apparel, including dresses. The brand was launched in 2018 by entrepreneur...

wool is a type of fabric primarily used in creating berets, scarves, vests, cardigans, coats, and jackets. To create this fabric, knit wool or wool-blend...

A wool church is an English church financed primarily by donations from rich merchants and farmers who had benefitted from the medieval wool trade, hoping...

Mark Wool (born 10 February 1990), also known by the nickname of "Woolly"', is a Welsh former rugby union and professional rugby league footballer. He...

Wool moth may refer to two distinct moths: The Australian moth Monopis icterogastra, which looks "woolly". The cosmopolitan moth Tineola bisselliella,...

example is: “Wool sweaters are better than nylon jackets as fall attire because wool sweaters have higher wool content". The claim here is that wool sweaters...

Wool town is a name given to towns and villages, particularly in Suffolk and north Essex, that were the centre of the woven cloth industry in the Middle...

WOOL (91.5 FM, "Black Sheep Radio") is a Community radio station broadcasting a freeform music and talk format. Licensed to Bellows Falls, Vermont, United...

Jimmy Beans Wool is an American yarn retailer. The company is headquartered in South Meadows, a neighborhood in Reno, Nevada. Other physical locations...

An S number on the label of wool suits or other tailored apparel, wool fabric, or yarn, indicates the fineness of the wool fiber as measured by its maximum...

Cotton wool consists of silky fibers taken from cotton plants in their raw state. Impurities, such as seeds, are removed and the cotton is then bleached...

John Ellis Wool (February 20, 1784 – November 10, 1869) was an American military officer in the United States Army during three consecutive American-involved...

Wool insulation is made from sheep wool fibres that are either mechanically held together or bonded using between 5% and 20% recycled polyester adhesive...

Sonny Wool (2008–2020) was a sheep from the North Island of New Zealand. Born in Dannevirke circa 2008, he was named after All Black Sonny Bill Williams...

raised for fleeces, meat (lamb, hogget, or mutton), and sheep milk. A sheep's wool is the most widely used animal fiber, and is usually harvested by shearing...

Wool Market is the name of: Doncaster Wool Market, a market hall in England Wool Market, Mississippi, a community in the United States Wool Market square...

express the diameter of wool fibre. Fine wool fibers have a low micron value. Fibre diameter is the most important characteristic of wool in determining its...

Organic wool yarn is wool that is from sheep that have not been exposed to chemicals like pesticides. The Organic Wool Factsheet Archived 2014-11-20 at...

The wool trade was one of the most important factors in the medieval English economy. The medievalist John Munro notes that "no form of manufacturing had...

Cotton Wool is a 2017 British drama film following the story of a 7-year-old boy (Max Vento) who cares for his mother (Leanne Best) after she has survived...

Xinjiang Tianshan Wool Textile Company (Chinese: 新疆天山毛纺织股份有限公司, 天山纺织), or Tianshan Wool Textile (SZSE: 000813), established in 1980 and previously named...

wool consists of thin strands of lead metal that can be used to cold-caulk cast iron and steel pipes. It was manufactured by the New York Lead Wool Company...

The Wool-Pack is a children's historical novel written and illustrated by Cynthia Harnett, published by Methuen in 1951. It was the first published of...

Dan Wool is an American composer and sound designer based in San Francisco. He is known for his work across feature films, television, themed entertainment...

Steele Wool is a 2019 American dark comedy thriller film directed by Frank Cappello and starring Cami Varela and Cappello himself. In the film, a deaf...

Wool House is a grade II listed Victorian wool warehouse at 74 Backchurch Lane, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It was originally five storeys...

Cotton wool spots are opaque fluffy white patches on the retina of the eye that are considered an abnormal finding during a funduscopic exam (also called...

The Shetland is a small, wool-producing breed of sheep originating in the Shetland Isles, Scotland, but is now also kept in many other parts of the world...

since the Stone Age. Fiber materials came from animal hides, reeds, cotton, wool, and silk. Textile trade contributed immensely to the ancient global economy...

Edward Leonard Wool Jr., the son of concert pianist Claudine Lucas Wool, is an American electric blues guitar virtuoso, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist...

The Wool Track is a name given to the road route between Balranald and Cobar, via Ivanoe, in New South Wales, Australia. It connects the Sturt Highway...

The Wool Hall is a historic building in St Thomas Street, Redcliffe, Bristol. Originally built as a market hall, today it is home to The Fleece, a pub...

loft and softness of the undercoat. Wool that has never been used is known as virgin wool and can be mixed with wool that has been recovered from rags....

Wool was an American rock band from Washington, D.C., and based in Los Angeles. The band was active from 1990 to 1996 and specialized in a rough hewn but...

of Switzerland. It is a dual-purpose breed, raised both for meat and for wool. The breed originates in the mountains of the canton of Valais – from which...

A wool-stapler is a dealer in wool. The wool-stapler buys wool from the producer, sorts and grades it, and sells it on to manufacturers. Some wool-staplers...

Adam Wool is a former American politician who served as a member of the Alaska House of Representatives from District 5. He was a member of the Democratic...

mercantile corporation in England) dealing in wool, skins, lead and tin which controlled the export of wool to the continent during the late medieval period...

Mineral bonded wood wool boards (WW boards) are building boards made of wood wool fibres, water and the binding agents cement, caustic magnesia and gypsum...

Ed Wool and The Nomads were an American rock band from Watertown, New York led by Ed Wool, who were active in the 1960s and early 1970s. At the time, they...

Wool railway station serves the village of Wool in Dorset, England. It is on the South West Main Line, 125 miles 69 chains (202.6 km) down the line from...

The Wool Cap is a 2004 American television comedy-drama film directed by Steven Schachter, who wrote the teleplay with William H. Macy. It is an updated...

The Flax and Wool Cabinet or the Flax and Wool Wardrobe is a large piece of painted furniture designed by the English architect and designer William Burges...

The New Zealand wool boom of 1951, one of the greatest economic booms in the history of New Zealand, resulted directly from United States policy in the...

The International Wool Secretariat (IWS) was formed in 1937 to promote the sale of wool on behalf of woolgrowers and review research carried out by independent...

Fort Wool is a decommissioned island fortification located in the mouth of Hampton Roads, adjacent to the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel (HRBT). Officially...

sheep alcohol, lanolin alcohol, or wool alcohol) is a non-drying organic compound produced from lanolin, the fat of wool shearings, which has been reacted...

Benjamin, and Karyn Kusama. It stars Natalie Brown, Melanie Lynskey, Breeda Wool, and Christina Kirk. It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival...

"butterfly children" as the skin is fragile as a butterfly's wings, "cotton wool babies", or "crystal skin children". Fine JD, Hintner H (2009). Life with...

woollen clothmaking which involves the cleansing of woven cloth (particularly wool) to eliminate (lanolin) oils, dirt, and other impurities, and to make it...

Wool Bay (formerly Pickering) is a locality and a former government town in the Australian state of South Australia on the east coast of southern Yorke...

The Wool Exchange Building in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, is a grade I-listed building built as a wool-trading centre in the 19th century. The...

Died in the Wool is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the thirteenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1945. The novel...

The Wool Warehouse, on E. Bridger in Bridger, Montana, was built around 1900. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. It was...

Shearing sheds (or wool sheds) are large sheds located on sheep stations to accommodate large scale sheep shearing activities. In countries where large...

Norwegian Wool is a luxury outerwear company based in New York. Norwegian Wool was launched in 2014 by Michael Berkowitz as a men's outerwear brand. All...

woollen fleece of a sheep is cut off. The person who removes the sheep's wool is called a shearer. Typically each adult sheep is shorn once each year (depending...

Holmgren's wool test also known as Holmgren's colored wool test is a color vision test used to detect color vision deficiency. Swedish physiologist Frithiof...

Pulled wool also referred to as "skin wool". Pulled wool has several alternative names such as "slipe wool", "glovers' wool", "tanners' wool" and, "dead...

Wool 100% (Japanese: ウール100%) is a 2006 Japanese comedy-fantasy film directed by Mai Tominaga. It was released on October 28, 2006 in Japan and had a United...

Game of Wool: Britain's Best Knitter is a British reality show, where knitters compete to be named "Britain's best knitter". A spin-off of the format of...

1922) was a New Zealand wool-scourer and wool-classer. He was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1856. He built up the largest wool-scouring plant in the...

Laz Alonso, Moon Bloodgood, John Patrick Amedori, Justin H. Min, Breeda Wool, and Silas Weir Mitchell. Abbie Cornish as Rebecca Kamen Laz Alonso as Detective...

Gabardine is a durable twill worsted wool. It is a tightly woven waterproof fabric and is used to make outerwear and various other garments, such as suits...

aligns the individual fibres to be parallel with each other. In preparing wool fibre for spinning, carding is the step that comes after teasing. The word...

The International Wool Textile Organisation (IWTO) is the international body representing the interests of the world's wool-textile trade and industry...

back-formation arising because part of the business of a wool-stapler was to sort and class the wool according to quality. Staple strength is calculated as...

Wooller is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Robert Wooller (1817–?), English cricketer Wilf Wooller (1912–1997), Welsh cricketer and...

The Wool House is a medieval building in Southampton, Hampshire, England, which was built to serve the wool trade. It has since had various uses. The...

predominantly for clothing manufacture. It was originally made of wool, but is now made of wool, cotton and synthetic fibers. Jersey fabric originated in the...

to scour the wool. The removal of lanolin, vegetable materials and other wool contaminants before use is an example of wool scouring. Wool scouring is...

Worsted (/ˈwɜːrstɪd/ or /ˈwʊstɪd/) is a high-quality type of wool yarn, the fabric made from this yarn, and a yarn weight category. The name derives from...

Company. The company makes eponymous products primarily from Merino wool. Merino wool manages moisture, regulates temperature, and resists odors extremely...

from the obsolete noun stapler meaning wool-stapler, a merchant trading in wool who would sort and class the wool according to quality, or from the obsolete...

Wool Winder (5 April 1904–28 November 1928), also known as Woolwinder, was a British-bred and raced Thoroughbred racehorse that won the 1907 St. Leger...

The British Wool Marketing Board (also now known as British Wool) operates the central marketing system for UK fleece wool. A farmer-run organisation,...

because wool easily absorbs colour, so it is important to be cautious in order not to ruin the wool. Some of the higher-end wools are alpaca, angora wool, mohair...

popular, are viscose (the most common form of rayon), animal fibers such as wool, and synthetic polyester. Originally done by hand using a spindle whorl,...

wool broker who also ran a wool scouring business, at what is now Bunnerong Road, Botany. John Geddes handed over day-to-day management of the wool scour...

Wool Market (also Woolmarket) is an unincorporated community in Harrison County, Mississippi. Wool Market is approximately 2.7 miles (4.3 km) northwest...

Th Australian Wool Reserve Price Scheme (RPS) was a price floor scheme for wool that operated in Australia between 1970 and 1991. The scheme was set up...

such as wool, are used because they are thicker and have more substantial fabric to them, but cotton can also be used for light blankets. Wool blankets...

Kasaï Velvet Velveteen Zibeline Nonwoven Felt Cedar bark Knitted Boiled wool Coolmax Machine knitting Milliskin Jersey Velour Netted Bobbinet Carbon fibers...

pile attached to a backing. In Europe, the pile was traditionally made of wool, but since the 20th century, synthetic fibres such as polypropylene, nylon...

term wool alien is used for any plant species whose occurrence at a particular site is due to transportation there as a result of the making of wool products...

the source, the cashmere wool of the Changthangi cashmere goat, or fine Kashmiri cashmere wool. The word pashm means "wool" in Persian, but in Kashmir...

The Minden Wool Warehouse is a historic building at 1615 Railroad Avenue in Minden, Nevada. Built in 1915, it was designed by prominent Nevada architect...

The Australian Wool Board was an Australian Government statutory board that existed in its first phase between May 1936 and January 1945; in its second...

Berlin wool work is a style of embroidery similar to today's needlepoint that was particularly popular in Europe and America from 1804 to 1875. It is typically...

The New Zealand Wool Board was a New Zealand public body established in 1944 under the Wool Industry Act, whose key objective was "to obtain, in the interests...

Anthidium manicatum, commonly called the European wool carder bee, is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae, the leaf-cutter bees and mason bees...

The wool industry emerged as one of the first businesses in the new colony of Australia. Its growth had a significant influence on the development of Geelong...

Lambswool is wool which is 50 millimetres (2 in) or shorter from the first shearing of a sheep, at around the age of seven months. It is soft, elastic...

animal textiles which are made from hair or fur are alpaca wool, vicuña wool, llama wool, chiengora, shatoosh, yak fibre and camel hair, generally used...

Wool top is a semi-processed product from raw wool. The process, by hand or machine, prepares the wool for worsted spinning and generally the wool is scoured...

Wooler is a small town in Northumberland, England. Wooler may also refer to: Wooler, Ontario, a community in Quinte West, Ontario, Canada Wooler (motorcycles)...

has since appeared in films such as Haruta & Chika (2017) and A Forest of Wool and Steel (2018), for which she won a Newcomer of the Year award at the 42nd...

Wool Act 1698 (10 Will. 3. c. 16) (or the Woolens Act) was an act of the Parliament of England, long titled An Act to prevent the Exportation of Wool...

The National Wool Museum, located in Drefach Felindre, Llandysul, Carmarthenshire, is part of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales. Historically and into the...

The English Understand Wool is a 2022 novella by American author Helen DeWitt. The novella was published by New Directions. DeWitt announced the upcoming...

Alpine Fine-wool is a breed of domesticated sheep from China. This breed was created by crossing Mongolian or Tibetan with Xinjiang Fine-wool and then with...

Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches and is the patron saint of wool combers and of sufferers from head and neck illnesses. In the Latin Church...

fibers of the wool. Usually, sheep are shorn in spring and fall. The spring shear produces wool of finer quality. The lowest grade of wool used in carpet...

Wool on Wolves is a Canadian folk-rock band based in Edmonton, Alberta. The band formed in October 2008 while attending the University of Alberta. Wool...

and pressing fibers together. Felt can be made of natural fibers such as wool or animal fur, or from synthetic fibers such as petroleum-based acrylic or...

The Wool Warehouse (originally known as the New Mexico–Arizona Wool Warehouse) is a historic building in the Warehouse District of downtown Albuquerque...

together, the product of the vicuña's wool is very soft and warm. The Inca valued the vicuña highly for its wool, and it was prohibited for anyone but...

Woolmark is a wool industry certification mark used on pure wool products that meet quality standards set by The Woolmark Company. It is a trade mark owned...

(including wool) and feathers. The animal fibers used most commonly both in the manufacturing world as well as by the hand spinners are wool from domestic...

1893, the Pendleton Wool-Scouring and Packing Company was established in Pendleton, Oregon, as a wool scouring plant, where raw wool was scrubbed and packed...

The Dorper is an easy-care animal that produces a short, light coat of wool and hair that is shed in late spring and summer. It was developed in South...

It is sometimes spelled as Loaghtyn or Loghtan. The sheep have dark brown wool and usually four or occasionally six horns. The Manx Loaghtan is one of the...

Crêpe, also spelled crepe or crape (from the French crêpe), is a silk, wool, or synthetic fiber fabric with a distinctively crisp and crimped appearance...

alpaca, separated based on their respective region of endemism and fiber (wool) type: the Suri alpaca and the Huacaya alpaca. Both breeds produce a highly...

and his wife, Julia Garner. It was promoted with three singles; "Lamb's Wool", "The Things We Do" and "Under the Moon". It is the band's last release...

of products in the 19th century, including copper cents, paper, cotton, wool, carpets, and handkerchiefs. In the 1780s another mill, connected by the...

However, the American Fuzzy Lop is a wool breed and will have wool similar to the Angora breeds although the wool will be shorter than that of a commercial...

cotton, wool is highly receptive toward mordants. Due to its amphoteric nature wool can absorb acids and bases with equal efficiency. When wool is treated...

originally the US Army issued Cap, Wool, Knit, M1941 is a knit cap with a short visor made mostly from knitted yarn, originally wool, but now typically acrylic...

International Congress on Technical Education. Smith also developed a career in the wool trade. He became a mill owner and rose to be a senior partner of a worsted...

the removal of wool from around the tail and between the rear legs of a sheep for hygiene purposes. It can also refer to removing wool from the heads...

company of the Aditya Birla Group, in 2000. It produces suiting fabric, wool and wool-blended fabrics. According to the website of its parent company, as...

particularly wool. It was a boomtown of the Industrial Revolution, and amongst the earliest industrialised settlements, rapidly becoming the "wool capital...

The wool produced by the laboratory was in high demand, and by 1940, lab grown wool was the preference for most weavers. Various experiments on wool were...

Housework - Women Spinning Wool or Women Spinning Wool, is a 1905 or 1907 documentary film directed by the Manaki brothers. The film is a 1-minute silent...

Eisenhower jacket or "Ike" jacket, officially known as the M-1944 Jacket, Field, Wool, Olive Drab, is a type of waist-length jacket developed for the U.S. Army...

strips of wool-bearing skin from around the breech (buttocks) of a sheep to prevent the parasitic infection flystrike (myiasis). The wool around the...

the goat meat. When raising sheep for wool, wethers are commonly used. This is because males produce more wool than females, but rams can fight each other...

The Blue Wool Scale measures and calibrates the permanence of colouring dyes. Traditionally this test was developed for the textiles industry but it has...

qiviuq; Inupiaq: qiviu or qiviuq (sometimes spelled qiveut)) is the inner wool of the muskox. In Inuinnaqtun the same word can be used to refer any down...

Reda Group is an Italian wool mill established in 1865 by Carlo Reda. The mill is in Valdilana, in the historic Biella region. Lanificio Carlo Reda e figli...

Edward Wooler FSA (28 October 1851 – 7 July 1927) was a solicitor, author, councillor, alderman and antiquarian from Darlington. Wooler was born on 28...

Sheep and Wool Festival may refer to: Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival New York State Sheep and Wool Festival This disambiguation page lists articles associated...

] were shown garments supposedly woven from such "salamander's" hair or wool. Such garments were, of course, actually made of asbestos cloth. According...

The Calais Staple was the centre of England's medieval wool trade, linking royal finance, the power of the Merchants of the Staple and the strategic defence...

A Forest of Wool and Steel (Japanese: 羊と鋼の森, Hepburn: Hitsuji to Hagane no Mori; lit. 'Sheep and Steel Forest') is a 2018 Japanese drama film directed...

Wooler Water is a stream that flows through Wooler in Northumberland, England. It is a tributary of the River Till and is 12 miles (20 km) in length. Its...

and guide. Black wool – Any wool that is not white, but not necessarily black. Board – the floor where the shearing stands are in a wool shed. Bolus – an...

Balochistan) over $1.5 million in wool. Frequently fat-tailed sheep were interbred with Indian sheep to produce high-quality wool. In addition, because the fat...

The cloth part is known as the beged ("garment") and is usually made from wool or cotton, although silk is sometimes used for a tallit gadol. The term is...

Bissinger Wool Pullery was a wool pullery business in Troutdale, Oregon, United States. Adolph Bissinger, Samuel Bissinger, Louis Bissinger, and Louis...

Standard Wool is a global group of companies which sources, processes and supplies quality wool and its by-products to its worldwide customer base. The...

Stephen John Wooler CB (born 16 March 1948) is an English Barrister who was HM Chief Inspector to the Crown Prosecution Service (1999–2010). Wooler was born...

fleeces and the wool has to be combed to ensure that all the fibres are parallel.) Coldharbour Mill classifies itself as "a working wool museum" and as...

Wooler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bob Wooler (1926–2002), Liverpool DJ associated with The Beatles Charles Wooler (1930–2017)...

fineness. Flannel was originally made from carded wool or worsted yarn, but is now often made from either wool, cotton, or synthetic fiber. Flannel is commonly...

characteristics unusual in sheep: it is piebald – dark-coloured with areas of white wool – and it most commonly has four horns. The origin of the breed is not known;...

Crewel embroidery, or crewelwork, is a type of surface embroidery worked in wool. A wide variety of different embroidery stitches are used to follow a design...

Merino wool in New Zealand due to the rise of recycled polypropylene and a lack of industry representation, he secured a grant from New Zealand's wool industry...

zone (cropping (principally winter crops), and the grazing of sheep (for wool, lamb and mutton) plus beef cattle) and the pastoral zone (characterised...

together in front of a background. The original score was composed by Dan Wool, who started work on the project in 2010 and developed the score in chapters...

stone of 12+1⁄2 lb. used for wool. In 1350 Edward III issued a new statute defining the stone weight, to be used for wool and "other Merchandizes", at...

Sydney Wool and Produce Journal. The Sydney Wool and Produce Journal was first published on 15 November 1890 by John Leach of the Sydney Wool Exchange...

rabbit breeds, which is bred for the long fibers of its coat, known as Angora wool. They are gathered by shearing, combing or plucking. There are at least 11...

South Africa. South African Wool International Wool Secretariat Australian Wool Board New Zealand Wool Board British Wool Marketing Board State of South...

name for "sea silk" is ṣūf al-baḥr ("sea wool"). The 9th-century Persian geographer Estakhri notes that a sea-wool robe cost more than 1000 gold pieces and...

streptotrichosis (on cattle, goats, and horses), rain scald (on horses), lumpy wool (on sheep), and strawberry foot rot. The pathogenic factors are very diverse...

/ˈmoʊhɛər/) is a fabric or yarn made from the hair of the Angora goat (not Angora wool from the fur of the Angora rabbit). Both durable and resilient, mohair is...

Retrieved 13 January 2008. "Big Bad Wool - Soho Press". "Big Bad Wool by Leonie Swann: 9781641297936". "Amazon.com: Big Bad Wool: A Sheep Detective Story, Book...

Cyril Eric Wool-Lewis (1906 – 1975) was a British Colonial administrator whose responsibilities included the Turks and Caicos Islands. Wool-Lewis was educated...

woven or flat woven without pile, using various materials such as silk, wool, cotton, jute and animal hair. Examples range in size from pillows to large...

Freddy's: Security Breach is a 2021 survival horror game developed by Steel Wool Studios and published by ScottGames. It is the ninth main installment in...

14th century, it was licensed to export wool from which it earned great wealth. Later it imported Irish wool, but its harbour silted up and other trades...

organiser of the 1808 Rum Rebellion and a pioneer of the Australian Merino wool industry. Born in England, Macarthur joined the nascent New South Wales Corps...

sheep, it is commonly reared for meat, for milk and for wool. In Syria it supplies all the wool, about 30% of all milk and about 80% of all red meat. In...

Wool Act 1699 restricted the export of colonial wool. As a result, many people wove cloth from locally produced fibres. The colonists also used wool,...

produce a range of merino wool layers including long johns, underwear, vests, and short and long sleeve t-shirts. The merino wool is sourced from Australia...

herdvyck, meaning sheep pasture. Though low in lambing capacity and perceived wool quality when compared to more common commercial breeds, Herdwicks are prized...

Woolgathering is a practice similar to gleaning, but for wool. The practice was of collecting bits of wool that had gotten caught on bushes and fences or fallen...

exist. Some imitate the feel and texture of natural fibers such as silk, wool, cotton, and linen. It can be woven or knitted to make textiles for clothing...

to create contrast. Wool-on-wool (wool pile on wool warp and weft): This is the most traditional type of Anatolian rug. Wool-on-wool carpet weaving dates...

The wool combing machine was invented by Edmund Cartwright, the inventor of the power loom, in Doncaster. The machine was used to arrange and lay parallel...

its governing body. Although wool exports began in the 14th century, it was only when the export of high-quality merino wool was stimulated in the late...

from a Huacaya. Soft, spongy Huacaya fiber grows and looks similar to sheep wool in that the animal looks "fluffy". The second type of alpaca is Suri and...

Mountain of Oropa became a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Biella is an important wool processing and textile centre. There is a small airport in the nearby comune...

Richard de Podelicote (or Pudlicote, or Dick Puddlecote), was an English wool merchant who, down on his luck, became an infamous burglar of King Edward...

spear grass, sword grass, thatch grass, alang-alang, lalang grass, cotton wool grass, kura-kura, and keri, among other names. Imperata cylindrica was first...

for quality Welsh woollen products. Wool processing includes removing the fleece by shearing, classing the wool by quality, untangling, carding and spinning...

top, but sometimes next to the skin. Sweaters were traditionally made from wool but can now be made of cotton, synthetic fibers, or any combination of these...

Callirhytis seminator, the wool sower, is a species of gall wasp in the family Cynipidae. The adult wasps are about 1/8" in length and dark brown in color...

falling into bottomless pits. Each level contains five Flowers, five Wonder Wools, and twenty Stamp Patches, which are hidden behind certain beads. Flowers...

fabric originally made of silk or silk and wool, and more recently also made of cotton and wool or of wool alone. Quality bombazine has a silk warp and...

the original on 23 March 2016. Retrieved 25 February 2013. "Xinjiang Fine Wool". Retrieved 25 February 2013. Desilva, Udaya; Fitch, Jerry (1995), "Acipayam"...

1986 British biographical film directed by Alex Cox, co-written with Abbe Wool, and starring Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb. The film portrays the life of Sid...

for restraining the barbaric custom of plowing by the tail, of pulling the wool off living sheep, of burning corn in the straw, of barking of standing trees...

novel but a thriller. The English translation of the novel, titled Big Bad Wool, was released in May 2025. Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story (Glennkill:...

breeds. It is polled, clean-faced and clean-legged, with white face and wool. The Texel is distributed in approximately thirty-five countries in Europe...

Chiengora, also called "dog wool", is yarn or wool spun from dog hair. The word is a portmanteau of chien (the French word for dog) and angora and was...

a window cleaning service, when Wallace falls for the owner of the local wool shop, Wendolene Ramsbottom (Anne Reid). The duo find that Wendolene is an...

ninth and early tenth centuries. The breed is kept mainly for meat, with wool as a secondary product. Ewes were also milked in Iceland until the first...

the peace (usually by a relative of the deceased), confirming burial in wool, with the punishment of a £5 fee for noncompliance. Burial entries in parish...

with Scandinavian textile production in the period. In 1991 a sample of the wool from the hood was tested at the Oxford University Radiocarbon Accelerator...

of several types of products, of which the main ones are milk, meat and wool. Among the goat breeds there are highly productive specialized, dual-triple-use...

an American brand of oriental rugs, made from 1928 to 2021 from worsted wool. In 1921, the retailer Marshall Field's established a textile mill in Eden...

bags full; Barn floors full and a little heap under the stairs. "Lamb's wool" or "lambswool" is an early variety of wassail, brewed from ale or mead,...

fibres include cotton, linen, jute and hemp. Animal protein fibres include wool and silk. Artificial fibres (made by industrial processes) include nylon...

Wanted is a 2019 virtual reality (VR) survival horror game developed by Steel Wool Studios and Scott Cawthon. It is the eighth main installment in the Five...

radiation as well as sizes of biological cells and bacteria, and for grading wool by the diameter of the fibres. The width of a single human hair ranges from...

shaatnez, [ʃaʕatˈnez]; Hebrew: שַׁעַטְנֵז šaʿaṭnēz) is cloth containing both wool and linen (linsey-woolsey), which Jewish law, derived from the Torah, prohibits...

and wool. It has also been used for other commodities by weight, commodities by volume, and for both weight and volume in the United States. The wool sack...

materials such as glass wool, stone wool, wood wool boards, expanded polystyrene, extruded polystyrene, as well as the Heradesign wood wool based acoustic ceiling...

of the great wheel made it very good at creating long-drawn, soft fuzzy wools, but it was difficult to create the strong smooth yarns needed to create...

or other sources. Self-heating of wet wool in compressed bales is regarded as a likely cause of fires in wool, either at storage facilities or as ship...

products such as milk or cheese), in clothing and fashion (e.g., leather, wool, fur, and some cosmetics), in entertainment (e.g., rodeos, bullfighting,...

increase their prolificacy. Romanov wool is very strong and resourceful. The wool is double coated with mean diameter of wool fibers of 20.9 micrometres and...

Emma Wools is a Welsh Labour and Co-operative Party politician serving as South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner since 2024. She previously worked...

Frederick James "Bob" Wooler (19 January 1926 – 8 February 2002) was compère and DJ at The Cavern Club, Liverpool from 1961 until 1967. An important figure...

(1957), Elders Ltd, wool industry in Fremantle, retrieved 18 January 2017 Western Australia. Government Photographer (1900), Elders Wool Store, Fremantle...

single-origin suiting collection, created from wool sourced from Kingston farm in Tasmania. The Kingston wool is woven into worsted cloth in Italy by Vitale...

November 29, 2019. Notes "Hot Water on Wool (Reprise)" is a direct follow-up to the previous track "Hot Water on Wool". "People You Know" features a hidden...

many substances, including human skin and tissues, natural fibres, cotton, wool, and leather. Cyanoacrylate glue has a low shearing strength, which has led...

July 2018, she joined Steel Wool Entertainment following her original label SM Entertainment's joint partnership with Steel Wool to manage her American activities...

summers and shed their old wool. Wool might be found caught or tangled in low bushes. During this season, they would also save wool acquired from goats killed...

is the largest sheep of the United Kingdom, and was bred specifically for wool production. The fleece is coarse, wavy, lustrous and long, and hangs in broad...

the foundation fabric. Examples of canvas work include bargello and Berlin wool work. Embroidery can also be classified by the similarity of its appearance...

Kent, is a breed of sheep originating in England. The Romney is a "long-wool" breed recognized in England by 1800. Exported to other continents, the Romney...

system's general attributes were originally developed for the international wool trade in the Late Middle Ages, when trade was in recovery. It was historically...

A pea coat is an outer coat, generally of a navy-coloured heavy wool, originally worn by sailors of European and later American navies.[better source needed]...

The Città di Biella (formerly known as Challenger Thindown, Pulcra Lachiter Biella and Canella) is a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor red...

Cape Wool is any wool that originates from the Republic of South Africa; it is the generic name for South African wool. It has a white color with silky...

breeds is the technique by which wool could be collected. Primitive sheep can be shorn, but many can have their wool plucked out by hand in a process...

Steal Wool is a 1957 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Chuck Jones. The short was released on June 8, 1957, and stars Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog...

a single titled "Chewing Cotton Wool." On 10 August 2020, Bain announced that the EP, now titled Chewing Cotton Wool, was to be released on 12 August...

National Wool Act of 1954 (Title VII of Agricultural Act of 1954 (P.L. 83-690)) provided for a new and permanent price support program for wool and mohair...

Sarah Wool Moore (1846–1911) was an artist and art teacher, as well as a language instructor, who was the first director of the Art Department at the University...

nylon in 1938. Until then socks were commonly made from silk, cotton and wool. Nylon was the start of blending two or more yarns in the production of socks...

manufactured as a filament, then cut into short staple lengths similar to wool hairs, and spun into yarn. Modacrylic is a modified acrylic fiber that contains...

the white wool of the Tibetan lamb. Its origin is not really from Tibet, but from the Chinese provinces Shaanxi, Shanxi and Hebei. The wool is soft and...

the only two continuous members of the band. He was formerly a member of Wool from 1990 to 1996, a backing guitarist for J from 1997 to 2005, and a member...

maintain coat length. A wool coat is a single coat of coarse, thick fibres which are grouped together as small, tight curls. Wool coats are non-shedding...

station agency in New Zealand. For a time,[vague] it was New Zealand's largest wool exporter. Its business began in Green Island, Dunedin as a fellmongery owned...

wool, pre-Columbian indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast did incorporate their wool into their weaving by collecting spring moulted wool...

Rya, also known as Ryafår or Swedish Carpet Wool Sheep, is a breed of sheep that is native to Sweden. The breed originated from the Swedish and Norwegian...

Mineral wools, including rock and slag wools, are inorganic strands of mineral fibre bonded together using organic binders. Mineral wools are capable...

highly prolific maternal dual-purpose (meat and wool) breed. It produces yearly about 4.2 kg of wool and is weaned at 120 days. Dr. Clarence V. Hulet...

serious pest, as they can derive nourishment from clothing – in particular wool, but many other natural fibres – and also, like most related species, from...

contractual obligation to Rough Trade. During the recording sessions at the Wool Hall recording studio in Bath, Somerset, relations within the band remained...

Andy Barlow and Lou Rhodes. Notes On the CD edition of the album, "Cotton Wool" (Fila Brazillia mix) is a hidden track that begins two minutes after the...

English wool merchant, money lender and builder of Stokesay Castle. Laurence of Ludlow was the son of Nicholas of Ludlow, a prominent Shropshire wool merchant...

The Miss Wool of America Pageant was a showcase of wool-related merchandise. It was an annual event organized by the National Wool Growers Association...

sheep. It is a polled, long-wool sheep and is considered a dual-purpose breed as it is reared both for meat and for wool. It is known for its distinctive...

Misericorde Volume Two: White Wool and Snow is an indie mystery kinetic novel developed and published by Xeecee, and the second of a planned episodic trilogy...

council, should sit on a wool bale, now known as "The Woolsack", to symbolise the central nature and great importance of the wool trade to the economy of...

pattern, not just silks. Yarns now used to create damasks include silk, wool, linen, cotton, and synthetic fibers, but damask is best shown in cotton...

survived, as well as a series of monumental historical allegories on the wool trade, an important source of income for the city during his time as councilman...

by Sotho people in Lesotho and South Africa. Initially composed of pure wool, the material makeup of Basotho blankets has undergone significant transformation...

A flokati rug is a woven wool rug. They are shaggy in appearance, and are thick and soft. Modern wool or synthetic rugs may be purchased in a variety of...

Trangie Fertility. The Merino is reared for wool. Depending on the breed or bloodline, the sheep can yield wool of varying fineness, ranging from strong...

Mousseline de Laine) was a kind of mixed cloth with cotton warp threads and wool weft threads. Delaine may be made of undyed yarns, or be printed or piece...

as the ROCKWOOL Group, is a Danish multinational manufacturer of mineral wool products headquartered in Hedehusene, Greater Copenhagen, Denmark. The company's...

is one of the best-preserved medieval bog bodies in Europe. His surviving wool garments, leather shoes and other personal items provide archaeological evidence...

shawl is the Jamia Vr, which is a brocaded woollen fabric sometimes in pure wool and sometimes with a little cotton added. The floral design appears in a...

wool had reached a high of 12d/lb or about £32 /bale. In her memoir, Matilda recalled scouring her wool before it was sent for sale. As greasy wool contains...

Melton cloth, woven in a twill form and traditionally made of wool, is a very solid cloth whose finishing processes completely conceal the twill weave...

Died in the Wool – Manafon Variations is a remix album by English singer and musician David Sylvian, released in May 2011 by Sylvian's independent label...

company produces high-end fabrics with a core focus on recycled and low-impact wool fibers.[verification needed] The company's origins date to 1941, when founder...

broadcast on national television in New Zealand. His fleece contained enough wool to make 20 large men's suits, weighing 27 kg (60 lb) – an average Merino...

interests. Changes in duties for specific products such as tinplates and wool were the most controversial ones and were emblematic of the spirit of the...

domesticated, in Iran around 10,000 years ago. Goats have been used for milk, meat, wool, and skins across much of the world. Milk from goats is often turned into...

It is a hairy coarse-woolled sheep, is polled, and belongs to the fat-tailed group of breeds. It is entirely white – white-woolled with a white face. It...

The Scottish Dunface, Old Scottish Short-wool, Scottish Whiteface or Scottish Tanface was a type of sheep from Scotland. It was one of the Northern European...

War II. In 1941 it started to be phased in as a field replacement for the wool four-pocket service coat (which was relegated to garrison semi-dress use)...

Insulation. Turret Group. OCLC 226018128. "Wool vs Fiberglass Insulation | Why Sheep's Wool Insulation". Havelock Wool | Wool Insulation. Retrieved 2019-07-28....

Shahtoosh (/ˌʃɑːˈtuːʃ/; from Persian شاهتوش 'wool king') is an Indian wool obtained from fur of the chiru, a Tibetan antelope. The chiru is a wild animal...

named Eun Bang-wool who received a heart transplant from her late husband with her boss, Park Woo-hyuk. Wang Ji-hye as Eun Bang-wool Kang Eun-tak as...

cattle breeding and making wool, but its manufactures in later centuries include cheese, iron products and cotton and wool textiles. Crema's origins have...

Yak fiber is the term commonly used to refer yak fiber wool produced from the coat hair of yaks (Bos grunniens), a long-haired bovine mainly found in the...

Lavenham Wool Hall, also known as the Swan Hotel, is a timber framed building on Lady Street in Lavenham, Suffolk, England. Dating from the fifteenth or...

John Wooler is a Scottish-American record producer, global licensing, label relations, and record label executive. With 37 years of worldwide experience...

The South African Meat Merino or SAMM is a wool and meat sheep originating in South Africa, but now found throughout the world. The SAMM is derived from...

Romeldale in the United States. The New Zealand Romney is a thick-set white-woolled sheep of medium size; ewes weigh some 55 to 70 kg and rams between 90 and...

Pulling the wool of socialism's sheep (Chinese: 薅社会主义羊毛; pinyin: hāo shèhuìzhǔyì yángmáo) is a phrase originating from the sketch comedy Yesterday, Today...

Merinos. This cross is made to achieve a finer, better style of wool. Comeback style wool is also produced by Bond, Cormo and Polwarth sheep and they may...

great wheel (also called a wool wheel, high wheel or walking wheel) is advantageous when using the long-draw technique to spin wool or cotton because the high...

dictionary. Broadcloth is a dense, plain woven cloth, historically made of wool. The defining characteristic of broadcloth is not its finished width but...

is a type of lightweight, waist-length jacket made of cotton, polyester, wool or suede. Designs often incorporate traditional Fraser tartan or checkerboard-patterned...

Dalgety held the leading position in the synthetics bedevilled slumping wool trade, new investment was made in different sectors in other countries and...

brought home cashmere wool shawls from India, and the East India Company imported more. The design was copied from the costly silk and wool Kashmir shawls and...

when it was the world center of the wool industry. At its height, the town imported more than 100,000 tonnes of wool annually from the Southern Hemisphere...

that uses wool threads on cotton or linen fabric. During the Spanish Colonial period, the word colcha referred to a densely embroidered wool coverlet....

product was termed fulled cotton, a nod to the process of fulling in woven wool fabric. Mercer regarded the increased affinity for dyes as the most important...

The Wool Industries Research Association (WIRA) was an industrial research organization in the United Kingdom. In addition to conducting research in support...

1892), along with a fourth partner, Costanzo Giardino Vitri, founded the wool mill Zegna & Giardino in Trivero in the Biellese Alps. With the early departure...

The French term pure laine (lit. 'pure wool' or 'genuine', often translated as 'old stock' or 'dyed-in-the-wool') refers to Québécois people of full French...

Wool Market square is located in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Many of its buildings are either registered on Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship heritage list, or part...

Völner is a Hungarian language occupational surname for a wool worker (from German Wolle wool, cf. Wollner) and may refer to: János Volner (1969), far-right...

breed belongs to the fat-rumped carpet-wool type of sheep and the Kazakh group. Although the Altay grows wool, it is raised primarily for meat. The tail...

typically made from silk. Modern velvet can be made from silk, linen, cotton, wool, synthetic fibers, silk-cotton blends, or synthetic-natural fiber blends...

El Fayum, Egypt at a site which dates to about 5000 BC. In Roman times, wool, linen and leather clothed the European population, and silk, imported along...

Hair ice, also known as ice wool or frost beard, is a type of ice that forms on dead wood and takes the shape of fine, silky hair. It is somewhat uncommon...

was developed from about 1880 in western Victoria by cross-breeding long-woolled British sheep – usually Lincoln Longwool – and Saxon Merino stock, and...

Conservation Society classifies it as "rare". This breed is raised primarily for wool. There have been many theories about the origin of the sheep. It was once...

known for colouring wool with woad to give it a strong blue shade, created the eponymous Lincoln green by overdyeing this blue wool with yellow weld or...

particularly hairy, and thus suitable for carpet-making. It is a specialised carpet wool breed, but also a useful meat breed. In the twenty-first century it is a...

Ray as Mrityunjoy Sen Tuku's uncle Mukherjee Dar Bou, 2019 Bengali film "Wool Bonar Panchali Lyrics (উল বোনের পাঁচালি) Sweater | Anindya Chatterjee". "Sweater':...

for different growing techniques. Rock wool (mineral wool) is the most widely used medium in hydroponics. Rock wool is an inert substrate suitable for both...

games himself using game engine Clickteam Fusion, but partnered with Steel Wool Studios to create various entries in the series, including an open-world...

[bi.zɛ] is a domesticated breed of sheep originating from France. It grows wool but is primarily raised for meat. In 1952, the Bizet was introduced on the...

sheep first developed in 1961. This medium, semi-fine wool breed is now reared primarily for wool. In 1942, then-Council of Ministers (Cabinet) of Mongolia...

appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the wool and fashion industries. Forrester was born into a farming family in Warkworth...

dried and then beaten, to make the wool fluffy and divide good wool from unusable matted wool and dirt. Than the wool is picked, clean washed, dried and...

a breed of domesticated sheep found in Ukraine. It is a fine-wool breed bred for its wool. It was developed by crossing American Rambouillet with Merinos...

engaged in the manufacture, importation, distribution, or sale of textile, wool, or fur products. Such businesses are not required to have RNs. They may...

Robert Wooller (christened 13 February 1817) was an English cricketer who played for Sussex. He was born in Chalvington. Wooller made a single first-class...

Industrial Revolution invention for spinning thread or yarn from fibres such as wool or cotton in a mechanized way. It was developed in 18th-century Britain by...

in Gloucestershire and a Citizen of the City of London, was a prominent wool-merchant and is the ancestor of the present Greville Earls of Warwick. The...

"the fruit whereof is a wool exceeding in beauty and goodness that of sheep. The natives make their clothes of this tree-wool." There is mention of a...

originally took its name from a fabric of the same color made of undyed, homespun wool. The word was first used in English in 1686. It probably originated from...

George Dowling (c. 1854 – 19 August 1950) was a wool broker in South Australia. Dowling was born in Dublin, Ireland, and attended the City of London Public...

Punjab, Rajasthan and Haryana in India. It is used for its carpet quality wool and meat production. The sheep's body is white and the head is usually tan...

harmless. A common fabric used for potholders is wool because it can withstand very hot temperatures. Wool's flame resistance and high ignition temperature...

material itself is known for its insulating and acoustic properties. Wood wool Li, Juan; Kasal, Bohumil (September 2022). "The immediate and short-term...

Some feed on other animal products. For example, clothes moths feed on wool, and horn moths feed on the hooves and horns of dead ungulates. Caterpillars...

include silk, sinew, wool and catgut. Animal hair (wool or hairs): Fiber or wool taken from animals or hairy mammals. e.g. sheep's wool, goat hair (cashmere...

Nursery Rhymes gives this modern version: Baa, baa, black sheep, Have you any wool? Yes, sir, yes, sir, Three bags full; One for the master, And one for the...

Columbus; Genoese: Domenego Corombo; 1 March 1418 – 1496) was a Genoese weaver, wool merchant, cheesemaker, and tavern keeper. He was the father of Christopher...

Untitled is a 2013 bronze sculpture by Christopher Wool, installed on the north end of Chicago's Buckingham Fountain Plaza in Grant Park, in the U.S. state...

trade name for a scouring pad, used for cleaning dishes, and made from steel wool filled with soap. The concept was patented in 1913, at a time when aluminium...

artificially. Examples of naturally occurring polyamides are proteins, such as wool and silk. Artificially made polyamides can be made through step-growth polymerization...

Common natural clothing materials include: Linen Cashmere wool Cotton Cellulosic fibres/viscose Wool Hemp Ramie Silk Leather Down for down-filled parkas Fur...

templates for discussion to help reach a consensus. › The ICAR-Central Sheep and Wool Research Institute (ICAR-CSWRI) is an Indian Council of Agricultural Research...

used as a terminal sire. The head is pinkish-brown and is usually free of wool but may have a fine covering of pale coloured hair and both sexes are polled...

rough wool suitable for winter. For most garments, white wool was preferred; it could then be further bleached, or dyed. Naturally dark wool was used...

dictionary. Poplin, also called tabinet (or tabbinet), is a fine (but thick) wool, cotton or silk fabric with crosswise ribs that typically give a corded surface...

and was a pioneer of the Australian wool industry. She managed the family estate, Elizabeth Farm and oversaw the wool-growing that helped establish New...

ˈðuti]) is a Spanish premium clothing retailer specializing in cashmere and wool products, established in 1985 and owned by Spanish multinational company...

winter dress in the Yukon Valley Woman wearing a versatile balaclava and wool coat Traditional Inuit clothing Outerwear Ski suit Jacket Ushanka Selbuvott...

H. Dawson & Co., also known as HD Wool, is a world-wide firm of wool dealers, based in Bradford, England. The company was founded as Henry Dawson and Co...

English) or woollen (Commonwealth English) is a type of yarn made from carded wool. Woolen yarn is soft, light, stretchy, and full of air. It is thus a good...

its activity to Valsesia and founded the wool spinning mill Fratelli Lora e Compagnia, followed by the wool spinning mill Zignone & C. in Quarona at the...

George Wilcox & Co. was a South Australian hide and wool business, which in 1917 became Wilcox Mofflin Ltd. George Wilcox (3 October 1838 – 5 September...

double coat with a long, straight outer coat and a short, thick, cotton-wool like undercoat. The Wolfsspitz/Keeshond is the largest variety of Deutscher...

produces a very superior type of carpet wool compared to that produced in other parts of Pakistan. From this wool they knit beautiful carpets, rugs, and...

[ˈlɔːpɪ]) is knitting wool made from the fleece of Icelandic sheep. The fleece is made up of two layers, each with a different kind of wool. The wet-resistant...

prayers, and national events. It is traditionally made out of Camel hair or wool. Historically it served as a functional garment that protects against the...

consisted of a wool serge four-button coat with four pockets in olive drab shade no. 33 (OD 33), wool trousers, and a long-sleeved wool shirt, both in...

the fibres". Fabric blends included mixes like "Bunara" (wool-rabbit-nylon) and "Casmet" (wool-nylon-fur). In Britain, in November 1951, the inaugural...

The Gerum Cloak is a nearly intact brown wool cloak dating from 360 – 100 BC that was found in a peat bog on Gerumsberget plateau, Skaraborg County, Sweden...

breed or group of breeds of sheep. The word churra simply means 'coarse-woolled'. The Churra originates in the Duero Valley in the autonomous community...

South West England. It is about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the village of Wool and 12 miles (19 km) west of the major port of Poole. The collection traces...

The Ad Gefrin Distillery is a distillery in Wooler, Northumberland, England. On 25 March 2023 the Ad Gefrin distillery was opened officially by Eileen...

women. The Latin language uses the word vellus to designate "a fleece" or "wool". Vellus hair is sometimes colloquially referred to as peach fuzz, for its...

insulating effects of the large amount of air trapped in the cotton wool. The cotton wool in a razai clumps over time, thinning the razai and driving the...

Europeans in the mid-19th century as a pastoral region providing beef and wool to markets in Australia and beyond. In the 20th century, the development...

repealed enactments relating to the manufacture of wool in the United Kingdom. The act deregulated the wool industry, heralding the transition from workshops...

Baumwolle, which translates as "tree wool" (Baum means "tree"; Wolle means "wool"). Noting its similarities to wool, people in the region could only imagine...

sire high-performance crossbred daughters. The quality of its carcase and wool are extra beneficial traits. In all countries outside Britain, the British...

rams some 50–70 kg. It is polled, white-faced and white-woolled; the face and legs are free of wool. It is a lowland sheep, more suited to improved lowland...

introduced to France via Spain. The Rouge du Rossillon is a medium fine-wool breed. The males typically weigh 75–100 kg and stand 75–90 cm tall, while...

districts that process wool in Italy. One of them, Biella, is located in Piedmont. Below are shown some basic stages of wool processing (not complete)...

economic and diplomatic initiatives. His supportive policy toward England's wool industry and his standoff with the Low Countries had long-lasting benefits...

fabric made originally from the wool of Cheviot sheep and now also made from other types of wool or from blends of wool and man-made fibers in plain or...

breed of Merino sheep raised for their wool, mostly in Australia. So important is the Peppin Merino that wool producers throughout Australia often classify...

6th centuries, production of silk was seemingly non-existent, as linen and wool were the predominant fabrics. During this period, there was no public knowledge...

wear and other wool and flannel clothing located in Johnson, Vermont. The company began in 1842 when local farmers brought their own wool in to the local...

a breed of domesticated sheep from the UK. This breed is prized for its wool but bred primarily for meat. The live weight of a mature Border Cheviot ram...

Osti's career. He invented and presented Rubber Flax and Rubber Wool – linen and wool with a thin, rubber coating. The rubber made the materials waterproof...

uniform beginning in 1952. By 1941, soldiers wore an olive drab wool flannel shirt and wool serge trousers in winter and a cotton khaki shirt and trousers...

Batiste Battenberg lace Bedford cord Bengaline silk Beta cloth Bobbinet Boiled wool Bombazine Bouclé Brilliantine Broadcloth Brocade Broderie Anglaise Buckram...

yellow tag in the garment. A winter field uniform made of heavier-weight wool (or wool–nylon blend) was also introduced in 1951. The shirt featured a different...

Steinschaf type. It is characterised by its convex profile, its fox-red wool and its long lop ears. In the 1980s it became gravely endangered, but has...

Piano/Forte for her and said, "Kelly is possibly the most natural, dyed-in-the-wool, deep-in-the-bone actress I've ever worked with." Reilly has stated that...

Yeo-wool, one of his RESURRECTION teammates. She takes him to her house on the city outskirts. They are soon joined by his other teammates. Yeo-wool has...

Herbert Jeffrey Wooller (born 6 March 1940) is an English accountant and educationalist. He is noted for his accountancy tuition initiatives, and for...

the American Rabbit Breeders Association (ARBA). The Lionhead rabbit has a wool mane encircling the head, reminiscent of a male lion as its name implies...

Abraham Moon & Sons is a British fashion brand, specializing in wool and tweed clothing. Abraham Moon founded the business in 1837 in Guiseley, West Yorkshire...

produces suiting fabric, with a capacity of producing 31 million meters of wool and wool-blended fabrics. The group owns apparel brands like Raymond, Premium...

the industry in the North of England. Older sheep breeds known for their wool in the Irish industry were lost or became extinct, especially as the Irish...

achieved. Textile fibre may be dyed before spinning or weaving ("dyed in the wool"), after spinning ("yarn-dyed") or after weaving ("piece-dyed"). Many natural...

grazers both individually and in herds in return for their production of milk, wool, and meat. As such, the diseases of these animals are of great economic importance...

woven fabric, originally a silk-and-wool blend, which can also be made from a single fibre, such as cotton, silk or wool, or from man-made fabrics such as...

century, and was refurbished in c.1800 by a wool merchant who took over the malthouse next door as a wool store, along with the cottages further up the...

clothing and people began to search for new ways to use the plentiful native wool. The design has since become a national icon for Icelandic cultural identity...

woolen textiles. Wool has a high resistance, however, to fungi and bacteria, provided it is free from sizing and soaps; further, wool can absorb three...

7, also known as 2-naphthol orange, is an azo dye. It is used for dyeing wool. It is produced by azo coupling of β-naphthol and diazonium derivative of...

background research and vivid evocation of history. For one of them, The Wool-Pack (1951), she won the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising...

reference to their American origins. The body (i.e., torso) is usually of boiled wool and the sleeves of leather with banded wrists, collar, and waistband. Letter...

the Cheviot and Romney, the Perendale is a dual-purpose sheep producing wool fibres of 29 to 35 micrometres (0.0011 to 0.0014 in) diameter with a 125...

Commons has media related to Zinc oxide. Look up zinc oxide or philosopher's wool in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Zincite properties International Chemical...

fertility and survival rate from birth to weaning is high. The wool is a light brown carpet wool quality which was favored in Persian carpets. "Mehraban"....

fourteenth century. He was a grocer and also served as collector of the wool subsidy. https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/VENO1.htm Coleman 1969, p. 184, n.2...

manufacturer of household cleaning agents. Their main product is a fine-grade steel wool marketed with the brand "Bom Bril". The company at one point had 90% share...

Thrumming is a technique in which small pieces of wool or yarn (thrums) are pulled through fabric to create a wooly layer. The term thrum originally referred...

(фуфайка) is a variety of quilted jacket from the Soviet Union. It is a cotton wool–padded, waterproof jacket often worn with valenki, winter trousers, and an...

grey and brown colours. The wool used is of medium to coarse yarn of raw wool. In early colonial and pre-Hispanic times the wool of chilihueques was used...

local use when harvesting and transporting wool. Both bullock and horse wagons carried heavy loads of wool and wheat which was the main produce transported...

in fine cords or ribs across the width of a piece, usually made of silk, wool, or cotton. The name is said to have been adapted from the French reps, a...

during the era of the Temple in Jerusalem. The scapegoat had a band of red wool placed on it, and was then released into the wilderness, taking with it all...

conquest and break the Spanish stranglehold on the valuable Merino wool market. Fine merino wool was highly prized for its unique water-shedding qualities and...

the founders of Australia's Merino wool industry. It was gazetted on 22 March 1982 and first settled in 1983. The wool industry is the theme for street...

'Elmsall Inn'. In the same year John Bull established Hazelbrook Works, a wool washing works and fellmonger near the junction of the Queanbeyan and Molonglo...

the site. Staple Inn dates from 1585. The building was once the wool staple, where wool was weighed and taxed. It survived the Great Fire of London, was...

A rya or rye is a traditional Scandinavian wool rug with a long pile of about 1 to 3 inches. They are made using a form of the Ghiordes knot to make the...

their beer tankards. These markers, typically about 10cm high, were knitted wool puppets affixed to the thumbpiece on the lid of the tankard. The puppets...

(or zmijovec, in Slovakia known as budajka) is a traditional Czech knitted wool cap with no bill, encircled with a cuff and topped by a small pom-pom. The...

and hemp fibres for spinning with other staple fibres such as cotton or wool. Cottonization removes impurities (non-fibrous materials such as lignin or...

Jeffrey (1853 – 26 April 1942) was a Scots-born wool technologist, who developed the art or science of wool classing in South Australia through teaching...

Benetton for buying wool from farmers who practiced mulesing. Benetton has since agreed to buy nonmulesed wool and has further urged the wool industry to adopt...

Elastoplast and Magnum. In 2019, she appeared naked in a video for PETA's anti-wool campaign. The Barbershop Girl by Georgina Penney Bridget Crack by Rachel...

was used in the wool preparing process to clean the wool of grease and other substances, as a mordant which fixed the dyes in the wool, in glassmaking...

lightfastness are the Blue Wool Scale, Grey scale and the scale defined by ASTM (American Standard Test Measure). On the Blue Wool Scale the lightfastness...

of Woodland, and includes the summits of Yew Bank at 678 feet (207 m) and Wool Knott at 730 feet (220 m), with Beacon Tarn (also visited on his Beacon Fell...

Managing Director of the Van Diemen's Land Company, and author of works on the wool trade and Van Diemen's Land. Bischoff was of a German family which settled...

September 9, 2016, through Cooking Vinyl. In 2017, Koretsky teamed with DJ Wool under the D.A.R.K. name to tour as an opening act for the Cranberries. On...

wool, rock wool and slag wool are considered not classifiable as to carcinogenicity to humans (IARC Group 3). In October 2001, all fiberglass wools commonly...

the River Annan, with a population of around 2,500. It was a centre of the wool trade and a spa town. Moffat is around 59 miles (95 kilometres) to the southeast...

schrobbelaar" (At the wool carding shop). Therefore, Wassing decided to sell his product under the brand name "Schrobbelèr" (Wool carder). The label of...

would buy local wool, but send it for mechanical cleaning and carding to eastern woolen mills. The mills would also dye some of the wool in blue or black...

considered for merging. › The Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival is an event featuring domestic sheep and wool. It is held at the Howard County Fairgrounds...

chaddar (meaning "soft wool wrapper") were plain shawls made with soft goat hair fibre (Kabuli Pashm, Pashm (پشم) meaning "wool") that were produced in...

obtained by the Diné around the 16th century during the Spanish Conquest. Its wool consists of a protective topcoat and soft undercoat. Some rams have four...

engineer cap and sixpence amongst others). Flat caps are usually made of tweed, wool or cotton, while some are made using leather, linen or corduroy. The inside...

unicorn through an idealised French landscape. The tapestries were woven in wool, metallic threads, and silk. The vibrant colours, still evident today, were...

from a combination of lin (an archaic word for flax, whence "linen") and wool. This textile has been known since ancient times. Known as shatnez (שַׁעַטְנֵז)...

The Times a former sailor who had worked aboard clipper ships that carried wool between Australia and Great Britain in the 1880s said that he believed the...

The Altai Mountain goat is a breed of domestic goat bred for wool production in the Altai Republic of the Russian Federation. The breed was developed during...

Yeo-wool, and vice versa. But several obstacles remain in their way: the continuing villainy of Gwan-woong; the knowledge that it was Yeo-wool's father...

give up the production of 20 tonnes of wool which means for every 1 tonne of tea produced, 0.2 tonnes of wool has to be forgone. Meanwhile, to make 30...

include: Crewel yarn (also known as crewel wool or French wool) is a fine 2-ply yarn of wool or, less often, a wool-like acrylic. Strands may be separated...

sizes, and varieties and are made from a wide array of materials, including wool, cotton, paper, plastic, thread, glitter and occasionally feathers. Pom-poms...

Sharkskin is a twill weave fabric created using acetate, rayon, worsted wool, and synthetic fibers. The arrangement of darker and brighter threads in...

Charles Robert Dudley Wooler (30 June 1930 – 26 April 2017) was a first-class cricketer who played for Leicestershire County Cricket Club in England and...

State Sheep and Wool Festival features over 300 wool & fiber arts and vendors of materials and tools associated with all things wool make up the show...

Box Set is an album by the American band Wool, released in 1994. Despite its title, Box Set is a studio album. The band supported the album with a North...

(Doornik in Flemish) in the 15th century and was made from a combination of wool and linen. It was a coarse cloth, similar to kersey, and used on beds, hangings...

Clara Parkes is an American author, yarn critic, and wool expert. Parkes has been described as "quite possibly the only writer you will ever read who can...

recurring event is being considered for merging. › The New York State Sheep and Wool Festival is an annual gathering of fiber-arts enthusiasts in the United States...

William-Louis Ternaux (1763–1833) was a French industrialist and manufacturer in the wool industry. the eldest son of Charles-Louis Ternaux (1738–1814), took over...

[ˈbojna]) is a soft, round, flat-crowned cap made of hand-knitted wool, crocheted cotton, wool felt, or acrylic fibre. Mass production of berets began in the...

Dunedin-born Kettle, having served an apprenticeship with G G Russell & Co, wool and general merchants, had opened a Napier branch for Murray Roberts (at...

Heraclea to Konya in southern Turkey had seen goats with snow-white "... wool so delicate that one would judge it finer than silk ...". Angora goats were...

used to make Al Sadu consists of camel fur, goat hair, and sheep wool. These furs and wool are sheared and cleaned to be prepared by the women. The yarn...

Imperial and Reichswehr uniform color of grey-green "field gray" (feldgrau) wool, but incorporated four front patch pockets with scalloped flaps and pleats...

fibers are dyed with basic dyes, while nylon and protein fibers such as wool and silk are dyed with acid dyes, and polyester yarn is dyed with dispersed...

typically manufactured out of felted wool (the original material used for manufacture), rubber, or plastic. Wool variants are typically smooth, while...

Apocalypse Now is a 1988 painting by the American artist Christopher Wool, widely regarded as among the most important of his "word paintings" created...

complex and time-consuming process. It began with the preparation of sheep wool, which was then felted into textile sheets. The material was subsequently...

reign of Edward III of England. It became an important market for English wool, an industrial hub for Europe's textile trade centred in Flanders, and the...

processing was tiny: in 1701 only 1,985,868 pounds (900,775 kg) of cotton-wool was imported into England, and by 1730 this had fallen to 1,545,472 pounds...

"bawneen"), a yarn made from sheep's wool, sometimes "black-sheep" wool. They were originally made with unwashed wool that still contained natural sheep...

a band or strip of high content gold. In rarer instances, fine linen and wool have been used as the core. While cloth of gold has been popular for ecclesiastical...

Wool Act of 1954 and provided for a new price support program for wool and mohair to encourage increased domestic production. Price support for wool and...

particularly prosperous period, when wealth from wool trade facilitated the building of the grand wool churches such as St Botolph's Church, Boston. During...

which surrounds it. It is a dual-purpose breed, with heavy, medium-quality wool and good meat production characteristics. It is hardy and well-suited to...

Hebrides of Scotland, finished in the Outer Hebrides, and made from pure virgin wool dyed and spun in the Outer Hebrides. This definition, quality standards and...

and an NZIA Local Award (Enduring Architecture) (2005). Wool House (also now known as Old Wool House) was recognised with an NZIA Wellington Branch Enduring...

principally on wool, but many of the early cotton mills were based in the county and the assets and spinning machines often switched from cotton to wool. Towns...

by the wool trade, while the eastern side of the street remained part of the Domain. This part of Macquarie Street became known as the "wool store" end...

is concerned with animals that are raised for meat, milk, eggs, leather, wool, fur and fibre production for people’s consumption in Azerbaijan. There are...

include fishing, tourism, and sheep farming, with an emphasis on high-quality wool exports. Oil exploration, licensed by the Falkland Islands Government, remains...

is a blend of wool and cotton first woven in 1893 in England, and the "first branded fabric in the world". It was made of 55% merino wool and 45% cotton...

John Wroe (Latin: Joannes Roes; 1782–1863) was a British farmer and wool comber, known for founding the Christian Israelite Church. Wroe is considered...

Jacob Züblin (28 March 1653 – 19 January 1729) was a Swiss wool weaver and politician from St. Gallen who served as mayor of the city (Amtsbürgermeister)...

Pete Stahl as the inspiration for the song "My Hero". Stahl went on to form Wool with his brother in the 1990s, and also has sung for Goatsnake and Earthlings...

1917. Her time with this company was brief, as she was sold again to the wool mercantile company George H. Scales Pacific Ltd. in 1920. Based out of Wellington...

feral animal on one of the islands, Boreray. It was once reared for meat and wool, but is now used mainly for conservation grazing. It falls within the Northern...

areas and is hormone-dependent. The term is from the Latin lana, meaning "wool." During human development, the lanugo grows on fetuses as a normal part...

early 19th century America, double cloth wool and cotton woven coverlets were made by professional weavers from wool that was spun (and often dyed) at home...

Richard Chandler (died 1810) was a wealthy wool-stapler of Gloucester. In 1750, he had Winston Hall built for him in Constitution Walk, Gloucester, now...

endangered breed of sheep originating in Hungary, known for its curly and crimped wool and unusual spiral horns, which are seen on both the rams and the ewes (albeit...

accessible to humans at the time were used to make woven cloth. This included wool hem, skin, flax fibers from trees or intestines of animals. For thousands...

accessories required to make clothing from them. By the early 1700s random wool blankets accounted for a large percentage of traded goods, serving as a form...

The National Wool Museum is a museum based in Geelong, Victoria, Australia which tells the story of wool, fibre and textiles, alongside a range of contemporary...

himself an enlightened Jew of the Haskalah, he mainly earned his living as a wool merchant. Jacob Freud was the son of Schlomo Freud and Pepi, née Hoffmann...