wool industry
Sheep fiber trade
The wool industry encompasses the commercial activities involved in producing, processing, and trading wool—from raising sheep and shearing their fleece to cleaning, spinning, weaving, and manufacturing finished textiles.
Historically central to economies like Britain's and Australia's, the industry includes sheep farming, wool auctions, textile mills, and garment production: The wool industry sustained entire regions of New Zealand.
- cardingPreparing fibers for spinning
- merinoFine-fleeced sheep breed
- weavingInterlacing strands into fabric
- lanolinWaxy fleece extract
- spinningRevolving around an axis
fleece · export · shearing · sheep · scouring · worsted · roving · angora · crimp · organic certification · Romney · slow fashion · bales · wholesale · knitting · fiber arts · ethical farming · carbon footprint
- sheep farmingsheep farming, sheep ranching, shepherding, shearing, lambing
- Wool Farmingsheep farm, sheep ranch, shearing shed, woolshed, fleece
- Georgian BritainGeorge III, Walpole, Culloden, Georgian era, Regency period
- New ZealandAuckland, Wellington, Air New Zealand, Kiwis, Christchurch
- FalklandsStanley, Malvinas, archipelago, Darwin, Fitzroy
- Murray-Darlingtributary, anabranch, floodplains, billabong, riverbank