#wool

[emir-kctrk]

Cute sheep..

[ezekiellsplayground]

Completed crochet beetroot bag.

Constructed completely from handspun. Pattern by Brookes Imaginings.

[kleefkruid]

You think “oh it would be useful to learn how to identify my thrifted yarn and clothing” and before you know it you’ve been recruited by fiber witches giving out their spells willy nilly, again

[xanaxfarts]

Shearing half a sheep seemed a simple way to show a season's growth of wool, but photographer Cary Wolinsky was wrong. The half-shorn sheep tended to lose their balance and topple to wool-ward. It took many tries before merino sheep number 30 “became our hero," Wolinsky said.

[miamaimania]

One bird, still perched. ⊡ Linen and wool hanging fragment · Egypt, c. 200–642 AD · Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

[itscolossal]

Dive into Wool Creature Lab’s World of Vibrant Felted Nudibranchs

[arthistoryanimalia]

#TextileTuesday:

“Border fragment of wool with a continuous band of #hummingbirds and fringelike appendages representing beans. Early Nasca [Nazca, Peru, c.1-450 CE]. Pollination of bean plants by birds may be suggested here. Border was formed using a needle-knit stemstitch.”

On display at American Museum of Natural History [41.2/6321]