Wool week... Day one
To celebrate Wool Week we'll be running competitions for our readers every day of this week. Today's prize is from The Black Rabbit we have a cute Loopy Lapin Rabbit made from 100% lambswool and worth £30. To enter the competition you must answer this question:
Which breed of sheep provided the wool for the 'Newbury Coat' in 1811?
Please email your answer to assistant@selvedge.org the winner will be announced tomorrow.
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Southdown sheep – I had to Google for answer and now I am sad that I don’t have issue 25 and no subscription to the online version. I love the look of the article (I collected postcards of sheep when I was a child!)
I enjoyed the challenge of discovering what kind of sheep they were. After all, they were really the stars of the show. I don’t recall ever seeing Southdown. Up here, sheep are Cheviots or mules; some Texals and the occasional blackface. Also a few Shetland sheep.
They were Southdown Sheep