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With this compact, portable reference in hand, crafters can quickly and easily look up any of 100 sheep breeds, the characteristics of their fleece, and the kinds of projects for which their fleece is ...

Nearly three decades after converting a generation of outdoor enthusiasts to synthetic fabrics, a growing number of sporting-goods makers are bringing wool back. This time around, the companies are ...

“Synthetic fleece isn’t fleece at all,” complains Jeremy Moon, the cultural anthropologist turned sustainable designer behind the wool-focused adventure-apparel maker Icebreaker. “It’s all plastic.” ...

Wool has been taken off the sheep's back and woven into everything from sportswear to wedding gowns for the annual Fleece to Fashion Awards in the New England region of New South Wales on the weekend.

Knitting hones skills in analytic geometry, abstract algebra and topology argues Esther Rutter, tracing the history of wool and knitting throughout the British Isles. Having grown up on a sheep farm ...