• Regna@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    So much sheared wool gets discarded, burned or used for landfills nowadays, there are too few commercial buyers. And hobbyists are too few and far between.

    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      From clicking the link, this isn’t sheared wool, it’s the skins of dead lambs who were killed and butchered for food. At that point I ducked out, but I presume they’re farming them, like American Bison being both farmed and endangered.

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        4 days ago

        It looks like the pelts are just an additional item one could buy.

        The jackets and sleeping bags are definitely made from sheared wool. I’ve seen a few of their videos. They were searching for colourful sheep in Europe in order to not have to dye the wool. They use grey wool from northern Germany, black wool from Wales and brown wool from Portugal.