Often we think of sheep as supplying wool for clothing but that is just the start of the story.
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Their wool is a good insulator although coarse and is best suited to rugs or even fire proof blankets.
They have even been known to survive been trapped under snow for a few days eating their own wool.
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There are many types of wool sheep and each one produces a different quality of wool that is used in different parts of the wool industry.
The large category of carpet wool sheep includes a broad spectrum of breeds from the mediterranean area having in common a coarse mixed wool fleece with a long straight outer coat and short undercoat.
Reprocessed wool identifies wool which has been woven or felted into a wool product and subsequently reduced to a fibrous state without having been used by the ultimate consumer.
According to scientific research knotted pile carpets made from the shearing of sheep and goats for their wool and hair was present there around the 7th millennium.
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There are two categories of recycled wool also called reclaimed or shoddy wool.
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Fat tailed breeds such as the black headed persian are prized for the allyah or fat which is stored in the tail and rump.
Virgin wool and new wool are also used to refer to such never used wool.
In addition the oldest carpet in the world was found in syberia and dates back to approximately the 5th century b c and is knowen as the pazyryk carpet.
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