February 10, 2025

Why Don’t Sheep Shrink In The Rain?

2 minutes

To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:

Fiber: a threadlike structure forming part of the muscular, nervous, connective, or other tissue in the human or animal body

Felting: the process by which wool or another textile can be agitated, often along with moisture or heat, to cause the fibers to migrate amongst themselves and mat together into a dense smooth surface

Ratchet: a device consisting of a bar or wheel with a set of angled teeth that allow motion in one direction only

Wool: soft curly or wavy hair forming the coat of a sheep or similar animal, especially when cut off the animal & prepared for use in making cloth or yarn

Mammal: a warm-blooded, bony, & hairy/furry animal, the females of which give birth to live young and nurse them with milk

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