Historic Hudson Valley's Rob Schweitzer explains their annual "Sheep-to-Shawl" festival is a great way to show your kids how cloth is made, because once the sheep are shaved their hair will be spun ...

At the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival, the "Sheep to Shawl" challenge is simultaneously cut-throat competitive and warm and fuzzy. Each team is made up of one sheep and five people: one shearer, three ...

Take a moment to drink in the glory of Shrek the Sheep. Shrek really, really, really did not like getting his hair cut. So for six years, this New Zealand libertarian managed to avoid spring shearings ...

At a family farm in central Iowa, a sheep shearer leans over a ram, making smooth, clean strokes through several inches of shaggy wool. For most breeds, this fiber will just keep growing unless it’s ...

The Wyoming Wool Initiative is CALSNR’s flagship program advancing Wyoming’s sheep and wool industry through student-driven research, product development, and producer collaboration. From lamb to ...

But the tale of the rescued gay rams is not actually a feel-good story. It only looks that way because the public is largely unaware of how the sheep industry operates. Gay rams, who refuse to breed ...

Fashion's almost forgotten fabric is on the way back as fleece prices enjoy record rises. British wool's value plummeted during the 1970s and 80s with the introduction of many manufactured materials ...