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How wool is obtained from animals?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

it is shaved off them in a process called shearing

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How is wool obtained from wool yielding animals?

It is shorn from them with shears


How many sources of wool?

Wool is obtained from sheep and certain other animals, including cashmere from goats, mohair from goats, qiviut from muskoxen, angora from rabbits, and other types of wool from camelids


Is wool natural fibres and synthetic fibres?

Wool is a natural fiber obtained from animals such as sheep, goats, and alpacas. It is not a synthetic fiber, which is man-made from chemical compounds.


Which animal produces wool?

Wool is the textile fiber obtained from the fleece of many animals including sheep, goats, lambs, camels, yak, rabbits, alpacas, vicuna and llamas.


How is wool obtained from sheep?

By shearing them.


Are sheep the only animals that produce wool?

No, many animals produce hair that is suitable for spinning into yarns or thread and weaving into cloth. Any hair that is suitable for this use may properly be called wool. Among other animals, wool is commonly obtained from: Sheep Goats Rabbits Camels Musk Ox American Bison Llama Alpaca Vicuna Guanaco Yak


What wool obtained from Chinese goats?

Cashmere


What type of wool is obtained from Yak?

Yak wool is cleaned, carded and spun from yak fleece.


How is woolen yarn obtained from the carded wool?

woollen


What is the wool obtained from alive sheep is known as?

A fleece.


What is the source of the fiber of wool?

Fleece-bearing animals are the source of wool fibres.


Give information about wool yielding animals?

While most wool comes from sheep, there are many animals that yield wool including goats, llamas, camels and rabbits. Each group of animals yields wool with different characteristics.