Well-cared for and "happy" sheep make the best wool, yarn experts who use rare-breeds have said. Becci and Markus Pamely-Bast ...

A Belgian sheep that has not been sheared for five years cannot have its wool removed in case it catches pneumonia. The ...

Captain Henry Waterhouse and Lieutenant William Kent brought 26 merino sheep in 1797 from the Cape of Good Hope, in present-day South Africa, to Port Jackson, in the colony of New South Wales. Little ...

What used to take days now takes just an hour,” says Yuden Mo. The dwindling number of sheep, exacerbated by increasing predator attacks, led to a wool shortage that threatened this cultural heritage.

Well-cared for and "happy" sheep make the best wool, yarn experts who use rare-breeds have said. Becci and Markus Pamely-Bast founded a wool and hand-dyed yarn business seven years ago on a ...