#sheep and wool

[wanderingpidge]

Sheepies from the Maryland Sheep and Wool festival today 🥰

[lionfloss]

The Swiss Valais Blacknose have been rubbing themselves against the red feeder while eating and it managed to dye their wool pink.

[probablyasocialecologist]

Maintaining the biodiversity of sheep is not just important for knitters and spinners, but for the health of the environment. Essentially, a sheep functions like a carbon sequestration system. Atmospheric carbon makes up 50 percent of wool's weight, and, unlike synthetic fabrics, wool is naturally biodegradable. When disposed of, wool acts like a fertilizer, slowly releasing valuable nutrients and carbon back into the soil. Wool fixed carbon in the topsoil rather than releasing it into the atmosphere. This process can help regenerate pastures, which sheep will graze. And sheep can help answer the problem of how to avoid far-flung fiber supply chains. Because sheep do well in such an extraordinary range of terrains, wool is a natural choice for people interested in rebuilding local systems of cloth manufacture. Certain breeds are more suited to certain atmospheric and geologic conditions than others, so preserving diversity also means preserving the geographic range in which sheep can flourish.

Sofi Thanhauser, Worn: A People’s History of Clothing

[these-are-not-my-titties]

havent drawn him in 3 months, im so sorry harry I promise i'll make it up to u

Heavily inspired by the song Sans Fin by Montee

[galaghiel]

getting there

[bamsara]

I love giving characters traits that I have myself. Like the inability to swim

[hoofpeet]

Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah Bah

[sincerely-sofie]

Outfit swap!

(Shortly before the above:)

[canisalbus]

I tried to draw sheep Machete and goat Vasco (but I am not good at drawing goats, at all)

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[kply-industries]

[phoenixcatch7]

I get that calling white lotus lbh a sticky little 'sheep' is a canon translation and stuck in the fandom now anyway, but I do feel the intended spirit of the original word wasn't the sheeple/dumb herd animal that's more common in the western world, but instead something actually conveying sweetness, innocence, purity and youth - lamb.

Famous for being utterly adorable and following around their mothers, gambolling in sunny meadows, curly white wool shining.

And NOW we can talk about black sheep/wolf in sheep's clothing metaphors.

[miss-conner3]

En Español: Aquí

¿Does the clothes make the lamb, or does the lamb make the clothes?

Some outfits and headcanons of my lamb while he looks great and remembers what modesty is, thanks to his older brother (owo)/

Since "it's just wool" is an excuse that, for me, only works when the other creature is not another sheep XD

¡I hope you like it!

Extra: An observation about a cat and a lamb...

They are dancing (ouo)

[acti-veg]

According to one analysis of wool production in Australia, by far the world’s top exporter, the wool required to make one knit sweater is responsible for 27 times more greenhouse gases than a comparable Australian cotton sweater, and requires 247 times more land. Sheep farming threatens native species around the world, from koalas in Australia to sage grouse in the US.

Domesticated sheep in the American West have, as my colleague Paige Vega has reported, been implicated in mass die-offs of their wild cousins, Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep, through the spread of the lethal pathogen Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae.

Ruminant farming’s hunger for land has made it a prime engine for colonial expansion around the world; we see this in Brazil, for example, where cattle ranching is driving illegal seizures of Indigenous land. Sheep brought by colonists to Australia “immediately trampled and destroyed all of the native yams and edible vegetables that Aboriginal people had.

The land that Aboriginal people never ceded was taken for pastoral practices,” said Emma Hakansson, the Australia-based founding director of Collective Fashion Justice, which advocates for what she calls a “total ethics” fashion system: one that’s fair to people, animals, and the planet. “Animal-derived materials in particular are a focus for us because it’s in those supply chains that all three of those groups are consistently harmed.”

[circusinarun]

More curly Draxum :3

Yup, nothing serious, just a grandpa who hates being brushed (or let anyone touch his hair)

And lamb! Lamb Draxum! :3

Curly, curly, curly lamb <333333

And just a funny thing about how i learned how to draw Draxum:

Want to draw Draxum, draw Miguel :3

[littlealienproducts]

100% Wool Sheep Knitted Jumper by Lambland

[artoutforblood]

In the warm months, sheep put on their winter coats