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A wool blend coat has been designed not to shrink, based on the blend of the wool. However, you could wash the wool coat in hot water with maximum agitation, which affects the wool, but not the blend. Your results would be unpredictable.
No. Wool comes from the sheep's coat; sheepskin is the skin that grows the coat.
When purchasing a wool coat one should look out for the source of the wool. If one is environmentally conscious then one may, for example, wish to buy a coat made partly with recycled wool.
The hair of a sheep is referred to as wool. Fleece is the wool of a lamb.
Any sheep's coat can be used for wool.
A fleece
Wool
To protect the animal from their environment. And wool IS that "thick coat of hair" you mentioned.
The wool cycle begins with the animal that grows the coat.
Sheep.
coat from wool
The coat of wool covering a sheep is called fleece. It is sheared off the sheep's body annually for various uses such as clothing, blankets, and textiles.