Here's a weird one for you: All the wool used to make mid to high-end suits comes from the descendants of just six sheep. It's like the evolutionary process, except for suits. Back in 1789, all the ...

Given the fibre’s importance to the country’s economy and the Karoo’s enduring association with sheep, the Karoo Winter Wool Festival was an event just waiting to happen. Late-afternoon light falls ...

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Many great brands are born of frustration. In the case of Sheep Inc, that existential angst stems from the fact that the fashion industry is one of the world’s largest polluters. Hence, the ...

PALMER — Karen Gardner keeps sheep to support her weaving habit. At Gardner's arrival in the family's Matanuska Colony barn on a windy night a few days before Thanksgiving, her flock comes running as ...

Black sheep have traditionally been bred out of merino flocks, with fibre contamination an issue for the industry Three women are bucking the trend, breeding black merinos and processing the wool in ...

Merino wool is a sustainable material when the sheep are treated well. Sheep Inc, short for Sheep Included, is transparent about its efforts to ensure their animals are: They allocate wearers a sheep ...