Well-cared for and "happy" sheep make the best wool, yarn experts who use rare-breeds have said. Becci and Markus Pamely-Bast founded a wool and hand-dyed yarn business seven years ago on a narrowboat ...

The process of creating animal-based yarn hasn’t changed much over the millennia: Sheep, goats, alpacas, or what have you are sheared of their wool, fur, or hair, the strands are washed and separated ...