Sentences with phrase «than sheep wool»

VIP Fibers, a company that spins dog fur into yarn — Yes, Virginia, there really are dog fur spinners — suggests that unless you live in a really, really cold climate you not make entire garments out of dog fur yarn because it's up to 80 % warmer than sheep wool.

Not exact matches

He said beef prices were more volatile than those for crossbred sheep, which produced both wool and lamb meat.

The wool fiber produced by merino sheep is significantly finer than other types of wool, so feels luxuriously soft and gentle against a baby's skin.

A quality cashmere sweater will keep you significantly warmer than sheep's wool.

It can be up to 8 times warmer than the wool from sheep.

More wool comes from the State of Texas than any other in the US, this farming industry focused on Edwards Plateau, which is also the top sheep growing area in the whole country.

I stayed at the Three Glens in Dumfries and Galloway and will be writing a post about it this week — they're hugely sustainable (they generate more energy than they need via a windmill and insulate using wool from their sheep, amoung other things.)

In the end, using drywalls and sheep wool results in much less volume of material than most other materials, and hence in less transportation and packaging.

It rode on the sheep's back for more than a century as the world's largest producer of fine apparel wool.

Inuit people in the Far North have used dog fur in clothing for thousands of years, and apparently it is 50 percent warmer than sheep's wool.