Standard Wool is passionate about wool whether its greasy, scoured, Chilean top wools or our latest organically produced UK blends, we travel thousands of miles to source the best for our worldwide customer base.

Based in Bradford, Standard Wool’s origins date back to the 18^th century. We are at the forefront of the industry combining traditional values with technological innovation and at the heart of our success are our people and animals.

In recognition of the sheep that have helped us become a global company, see our favourite wool facts below!

1. The fleece of sheep has been used to make human clothing since the Stone Age.
2. Lamb’s Wool was a drink made from apples, sugar, nutmeg and beer drunk on Twelfth Night.
3. Donegal-born Ivan Scott holds the world record for the fastest time to shear a sheep. Scott (33) sheared a sheep in 37.9 seconds.
4. Wool absorbs and releases water vapour as humidity rises and falls, which is why it works so well as a natural insulator.
5. The word jersey originally meant any knitted item make from Jersey wool, especially stockings.
6. Under EU rules, a product may be labelled 100 per cent wool or pure wool as long as it contains no more than 5 per cent inadvertent impurities.
7. Wool may be used for mixtures of hair from sheep, alpaca, llama, camel, cashmere, mohair, angora, vicuna, yak, guanaco, beaver or otter.
8. There are 34.2 million sheep in New Zealand, or approximately seven sheep for every human. This, however, is still quite a change from 1982, when New Zealand had 70.3 million sheep, or an astounding 22 sheep for every person!
9. In 2009, an 8-month-old Scottish ram named Deveronvale Perfection was sold for £231,000 (or more than $380,000). A sheep farmer in Scotland purchased the ram for breeding, making it the most expensive sheep in the world to date.
10. Not only can sheep recognize up to 50 other sheep faces and remember them for 2 years, but they can also recognize human faces.

Wool facts sources:

http://www.pbs.org/pov/sweetgrass/sheep-facts/

http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/top10facts/519550/Top-Facts-about-wool

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