Article: wool

Article: Wool on four feet.(how wool from animals is made into yarn)
Children's Playmate;  March 1, 1994 ;     344 words ...You know what wool is. Sweaters coats, socks, and rugs are made from it. But did you know that wool walks on four feet? Wool is the soft, thick, sometimes curly coat of some animals. Wool can come from the coats of sheep, goats, Ilamas, rabbits...

Article: Wool
How Products Are Made;      700+ words ...Wool Background As with many discoveries of early man, anthropologists believe the use of wool came out of the challenge to survive. In seeking means of...develop the basic processes and primitive tools for making wool. By 4000 b.c., Babylonians were wearing clothing of crudely...

Article: Why wool still works.(Archery Aisle)(as an outdoor clothing material)(Column)
Shooting Industry;  July 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Wool. For many years, it was a staple item in the serious outdoorsman...of Sporting Group and Special Accounts for Woolrich Inc. Wool is just as useful in today's field and today's marketplace...just different than they were 50 years ago. In the past, wool was primarily used as an outerwear garment, ...

Article: Ewe-nique wool products.(The sheep shed)
Countryside & Small Stock Journal;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......hat to expect. Under-quilts made from the wool of sheep on Susan McCourt's Kerry Hills...sheep and found her greatest product is the wool bedding that has become very popular with...pioneers. It's a mattress cover with batts of wool like my ancestors used. Wool has always...

Article: Christopher Wool. (exhibit at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California)
Artforum International;  October 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......that around. Strolling through Christopher Wool's midcareer survey, however, Herr Collector...were happy as pigs in shit, and why not? Wool's black-and-white, alkyd-on-aluminum paintings...what) and were not amazed to find that Wool's best paintings reside in the best collections...

Article: Advanced Research into Wool Science and Technology.
Business Wire;  July 1, 2008 ;     296 words ......and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/f2667d/advances_in_wool_t) has announced the addition of the Advances in Wool Technology report to their offering. Wool is increasingly being seen as a high performance fibre, with new modifications...

Article: wool and woollen cloth
The Oxford Companion to Irish History;      700+ words ...wool and woollen cloth. Although wool was worn from earliest times (see dress ), there is no evidence of...limestone areas which provided good grazing, were producing so much wool that they were major contributors to the Great Custom on wool and...

Article: wool
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English;      132 words ...wool / woŏl / • n. 1. the fine soft curly or wavy...textile fiber made from such hair: carpets made of 80 percent wool and 20 percent nylon 2. a thing resembling such hair in form...the soft underfur or down of some other mammals: beaver wool. ∎  a metal or mineral made into a mass ...

Article: Statement on signing legislation to phase out wool and mohair subsidies. (US President Bill Clinton)
Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents;  November 8, 1993 ;     572 words ......The legislation, which phases out the wool and mohair program, eliminates an outdated...the recommendations were reforms in the wool and mohair program; subsidies provided for nearly 40 years to wool and mohair producers when materials for...

Article: The International Wool Secretariat, and The Wool Bureau, to be Renamed The Woolmark Company.
Business Wire;  June 19, 1998 ;     497 words ......coming at the highest level of demand for wool at retail in the U.S. in a decade, The International Wool Secretariat today announced that it is changing its name, and that of the U.S. based Wool Bureau, to The Woolmark Company. The change...

Article: Christopher Wool. (Luhring Augustine, New York, New York)
Artforum International;  January 1, 1993 ;     530 words ...Christopher Wool's painting is synonymous with major attitude...the painting that's doing the talking, or Wool himself, the suggestion of simmering violence...foreplay, the frequent if/then construction of Wool's phrases mitigates the nature of barbs...

Article: No wool? No problem!
Agricultural Research;  April 1, 2003 ;     470 words ...A thick coat of wool is one of the most recognizable features of sheep...that has been recently sheared, we know that the wool will soon reappear. But what if there were sheep that had no wool at all--but instead, hair that is similar to humans...

Article: lamb's wool
A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition;      17 words ...lamb's wool Old English drink made by pouring hot ale over pulped roasted apples and adding sugar and spices.

Article: Wool biopolishing process scratches the itch factor.
Agricultural Research;  May 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......permanent-press cotton and permanent creases in wool trousers in the 1960s comes an exciting...biopolishing method that makes scratchy wool feel silky smooth. Not only does it remove the itch factor, it also bleaches the wool to a high level of whiteness and alters...