Wool

Wool is the only product of a Sheep Farm. It can be sold on its own or can be used as a material for other products in the Textile Industry.
==History==
As early as prehistoric times, settlers bred sheep and worked their wool and skin into protective roofs and clothes. Spinning wheels with pedals have been in use since 1530 - an invention of Johann Jürgens of Wattenbüttel. Previously, women had had to spin wool manually by means of a distaff and a spindle, which was extraordinarily strenuous work. In 1480 the wing spinning-wheel first appeared. In 1589 the English theology student William Lee built the first manual weaving-loom for the production of stockings and tights. In 1808 the French knitting machine, invented by Julien le Roys, was first put into operation. It was capable of producing flat textiles.
==Did You Know That?==
In 1808 the Parisian engineer Julien Le Roy invented the first knitting machine in history, called the 'tricoteur français'. With the help of this technical invention, flat fabrics could be produced, something the old weaving machines could not do. From 1828 on, the flat prick knitting machine constructed by the German spinning-mill owner Josua Heilmann, came into use. Wool was the raw material which brought about the rise of Great Britain as a world economic power. Around the turn of the century, knitwear was very popular in many regions of the globe and expressed the wearer's wealth and love of nature.
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