What are the Wool-Producing Animals?

What is wool exactly?

In textiles, wool is a mammalian fiber obtained from sheep, camelids, goats, rabbits, and other mammals.

In common terms, however, when we talk about wool, we imply the fleeces derived from sheep only. The other terms, such as angora, mohair, alpaca, etc. refer to the animals that grow that wool.

This terminology is not very specific either. Angora, for example, comes from angora rabbit or angora goat. Both genera originated in Ankara, Turkey, thus the name Angora.

In our Silk & Wool Barn, we use the term academic term wool sourced from all types of mammals.