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.
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