OEcotextiles

Indulgent yet responsible fabrics

Wool

O Ecotextiles (and Two Sisters Ecotextiles)

When we talk about wool, we almost always mean the fiber from sheep, although the term “wool” can be applied to the hair of other mammals including cashmere and mohair from goats, vicuna, alpaca and camel from animals in the camel family and angora from rabbits. As with many discoveries of early man, anthropologists believe …

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What does organic wool mean?

O Ecotextiles (and Two Sisters Ecotextiles)

Last week we talked about the importance of livestock management in the battle against climate change.  It came as a real revelation to this city girl that large grazing animals are a vital and necessary part of the solution to climate change.   Sheep can actually help to improve soils, which improves the soil’s ability to …

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