Wool Alliance for Social Agency
Research of the variety of cultural systems associated with wool
Here's something to do with surplus wool: make wool bricks! From the website https://buildabroad.org/2016/12/30/wool-bricks/ Carmen Galán and Carlos Rivera from the Schools of Architecture in the Universities of Seville (Spain) and Strathclyde (Glasgow, United Kingdom) are the researchers behind wool bricks. Wool bricks are made by adding wool fibers to the regular clay material used …
'80% of Dutch wool goes to China', I was told by Douwe Sibma of the Nederlandse Wol Federatie, during a tour a couple of weeks ago. The wool is collected from hundreds of Dutch farmers, and bought by the Wol Federatie, where it is then sorted for quality, unwashed and pressed into bales of 450 …
A fascinating example of shepherds and mobility! In France, Shepherds used stilts to get around on wet moorish land. 'The Landes region of southwestern France was for much of its history impoverished, with few roads and vast swaths of marshy and treacherous terrain. To navigate the soft and unsteady heathlands, shepherds developed a unique adaptation …
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In Dutch, the definition of a 'herder' is a male shepherd. A shepherdess has been traditionally defined as the wife of a shepherd. She is not necessarily a shepherd. In recent years, it's great to see the profession opening up to women in The Netherlands and elsewhere. No longer seen as 'the wife of', these …
A visit to two Dutch shepherds yesterday took me to another beautiful but very different landscape. Instead of large expanses of wide open farmland, as I had seen in Os, I biked through a forested area, with patches of sand dunes, and a 4 lane highway cutting it in half. This was the 'Goois Natuurreservat …
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