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[stellie]

I find it incredibly distressing that some people refuse to use wool as a source of fiber in knitting, weaving and other forms of fiber craft.

Most of these people are 'vegan' and do not believe in using animal products what-so-ever. I wonder if any of them use lanolin-based hand lotion. If so, they are using a by-product of wool and, therefore, are using a product made from sheep.

Wool has an elasticity that cannot be found in plant fibers; cotton, flax and hemp all fall short in this area. They also fall short in the realm of warmth and insulation. Wool is a natural insulator that keeps warmth in, keeps outside temperatures out and still, actually, breathes.

Try this with any poly-fiber and you will find it to be lacking quite a bit in comparison.

Incredibly distressing, indeed :\

Comments

[yaochi.livejournal.com]

The faith of the world has gone to 'science'

And artificial is science science science.

Not that all your information is not also Science

But folks just don't see it that way

You see Faux is Real, and Real is Bogus

I however like wool. It is versatile

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

I seriously don't think that most vegans really stop and think about the fact that sheep *have* to be sheared in order to be healthy. As the shearer I watched at MDSW said, we've bred these animals to produce much more wool than they would ever have produced on their own, so it's incumbent upon us to take care of them as best we can. And part of that includes shearing.

And, you know, wool is awesomely warm and squishy.

[garney.livejournal.com]

And it's not as if shearing sheep hurts them, yah? -.-;

[stellie.livejournal.com]

Yah.

...unless they squiggle and the shears catch a wrinkle and, at best, they only get knicked :x If the shearer took a little more time and tried to use a 21-tooth goat comb or even a 13-tooth instead of a flared 9, they'd drastically decrease the knicks and cuts on squiggly sheep!

[garney.livejournal.com]

kinda like shaving your legs? XD;

[stellie.livejournal.com]

I often come up against people who think that husbandry practices in the sheep industry are done for the hell of it; many people do not understand what they have read or, if they do, they have read mis-information and take it as pure truth.

Docking tails is wrong. 'Docking' (Notching) ears is common-place. Sheep have to die to give us wool. Lanolin is a by-product of DEATH.

I adore that shearer and I adore you =D

[stellie.livejournal.com]

Versatile is good :D

[stellie.livejournal.com]

oh, definitely XDD

[celestialblendr.livejournal.com]

hey, i just popped over from your post on punk knitters. I just wanted to thank you for starting that question line, because it's one that I was never able to get a good answer to, and I lived with vegans for a while (only one of them was non-wool though, and thought that the sheep had to be killed to get the wool...)