Animals Producing Wool

Which Animals are Producing Wool ?

Most of the wool is produced by sheep. But not only ! Goats are "wearing" and giving Mohair and Cashmere and our "hairy Bunnies" the beautiful Angora ! Camels and Lamas are making the soft and wonderful Alpaca. 

The world biggest wool producer is Australia with a quarter of the global production !The USA is number 3  with 17 % , New-Zeland number 4 with 11% , the UK number 8 with 2% and France number 19 Th with 0.7 % !

The quality of wool is determined by its fiber diameter. 

The finest and most valuable wool comes from Merino 

sheep originally from Spain !

Please find a few handmade knitted creation of wool hats such as slouchy hat, beret, beanie in my shops CREACOLOR

Handmade French Beret , Pink Color

Fall Colors Handmade Slouchy Hat

Black Folk Multicolored Handmade Knitted hat

Two Colored Handmade Knitted French Beret

What happens During 1850's in the USA and in France ?

Mid- Nineteen Century - A Major Moving Period  

In the USA and in France

Major Events in the USA

Industrialization moved forward in the North - East of the USA 

Railway network linked East to West

California Gold Rush

Massive immigration from Europe

Civil-war

Abolitionism and Antislavery

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Major Events in France

Second Empire- Imperial Regime of Napoleon III  (1852/1870)

Very strict period with no democracy in France during seven years.

War against the Austrian Empire

Savoy and Nice became French

Industrialization and railway network expansions  

Commercial Crisis

Franco- Prussian War

End of the Second Empire and birth of the Third Republic

Please find a few French Antiques from 1850's in my shop :

Antique French Items from 1850's SophieLadyDeParis

Antique Gilded Sterling Silver Spoons

1850's French Fashion Plate - Original

Antique 1850 French Double Inkwell