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Florence Garde
Belle laine = belles brebis en bonne santé , vaccins FCO 1,4,8 et 3 pour que les brebis passent un bel été. Je sais c'est pas sexy mais c'est aussi ma vie de lainière

Good Wool = good healthy sheep, these days it was Blue Tongue 1,4,8 and 3 types vaccine, to allow sheep to spend nice spring and summer in good health. Definitly not a nice and sexy pic, but thats my life of wool producer

#purelaine #elevageovin #wool #sheepfarming
The picture shows needles and 2 bottles of sheep vaccine against blue tongue
#sheepfarming
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ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Bard College: Textile Artist Mae Colburn ’10 Talks with Vogue About Archiving her Grandmother’s Vintage Skirt Collection. “[Mae] Colburn’s mother is a clothing historian and her dad is a photographer so the project spoke to their collective skills. Together the family has catalogued and photographed 632 vintage wool skirts. The physical archive is in Colburn’s Brooklyn studio—which is […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/02/bard-college-textile-artist-mae-colburn-10-talks-with-vogue-about-archiving-her-grandmothers-vintage-skirt-collection/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose | Individual posts from ResearchBuzz · Bard College: Textile Artist Mae Colburn ’10 Talks with Vogue About Archiving her Grandmother’s Vintage Skirt Collection | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
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#clothing#fashion#fashionhistory
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N-gated Hacker News

🚀🔬 Who knew CERN's world-class #particle #accelerators were actually just wool-spinning workshops? 🐑🔗 Next up: Higgs Boson discovered in a knitting circle. 🤣
home.cern/news/news/physics/ce #CERN #Wool #Spinning #HiggsBoson #KnittingHumor #ScienceJokes #HackerNews #ngated

CERNCERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheepThe CERN flock of sheep on site in 2017. (Image: CERN) Quantum entanglement is a fascinating phenomenon where two particles’ states are tied to each other, no matter how far apart the particles are. In 2022, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for groundbreaking experiments involving entangled photons. These experiments confirmed the predictions for the manifestation of entanglement that had been made by the late CERN theorist John Bell. This phenomenon has so far been observed in a wide variety of systems, such as in top quarks at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2024. Entanglement has also found several important societal applications, such as quantum cryptography and quantum computing. Now, it also explains the famous herd mentality of sheep. A flock of sheep (ovis aries) has roamed the CERN site during the spring and summer months for over 40 years. Along with the CERN shepherd, they help to maintain the vast expanses of grassland around the LHC and are part of the Organization’s long-standing efforts to protect the site’s biodiversity. In addition, their flocking behaviour has been of great interest to CERN's physicists. It is well known that sheep behave like particles: their stochastic behaviour has been studied by zoologists and physicists alike, who noticed that a flock’s ability to quickly change phase is similar to that of atoms in a solid and a liquid. Known as the Lamb Shift, this can cause them to get themselves into bizarre situations, such as walking in a circle for days on end. Now, new research has shed light on the reason for these extraordinary abilities. Scientists at CERN have found evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep. Using sophisticated modelling techniques and specialised trackers, the findings show that the brains of individual sheep in a flock are quantum-entangled in such a way that the sheep can move and vocalise simultaneously, no matter how far apart they are. The evidence has several ramifications for ovine research and has set the baa for a new branch of quantum physics. “The fact that we were having our lunch next to the flock was a shear coincidence,” says Mary Little, leader of the HERD collaboration, describing how the project came about. “When we saw and herd their behaviour, we wanted to investigate the movement of the flock using the technology at our disposal at the Laboratory.” Observing the sheep’s ability to simultaneously move and vocalise together caused one main question to aries: since the sheep behave like subatomic particles, could quantum effects be the reason for their behaviour? “Obviously, we couldn’t put them all in a box and see if they were dead or alive,” said Beau Peep, a researcher on the project. “However, by assuming that the sheep were spherical, we were able to model their behaviour in almost the exact same way as we model subatomic particles.” Using sophisticated trackers, akin to those in the LHC experiments, the physicists were able to locate the precise particles in the sheep’s brains that might be the cause of this entanglement. Dubbed “moutons” and represented by the Greek letter lambda, l, these particles are leptons and are close relatives of the muon, but fluffier. The statistical significance of the findings is 4 sigma, which is enough to show evidence of the phenomenon. However, it does not quite pass the baa to be classed as an observation. “More research is needed to fully confirm that this was indeed an observation of ovine entanglement or a statistical fluctuation,” says Ewen Woolly, spokesperson for the HERD collaboration. “This may be difficult, as we have found that the research makes physicists become inexplicably drowsy.” “While entanglement is now the leading theory for this phenomenon, we have to take everything into account,” adds Dolly Shepherd, a CERN theorist. “Who knows, maybe further variables are hidden beneath their fleeces. Wolves, for example.” Theoretical physicist John Ellis, pioneer of the penguin diagram, with its updated sheep version. Scientists at CERN find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep in 2025, the year declared by the United Nations as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. (Image: CERN)
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Furufoo

So you've been turned into a sheep-thing and people expect you to act all cutesy all the time? You'll show them just how foul-mouthed you can be! At least ever since you evolved you can actually stand on your two legs now.

For Goldkin

#Furufoo#flaaffy#sheep
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Elmer studio
Mon premier crochet et peut-être le dernier ? 🤣
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Cet hiver, l'envie m'a pété de faire un pull en crochet après avoir vu le modèle de @le_pull_le_pull qui est juste une incroyable designer !
Du coup BIM! je me lance et après avoir galéré à prendre en main cet outil de malheur, les panneaux prennent forme petit à petit.
Bon je vous cache pas que sans ma mère le résultat serait quand même bien moins joli, donc merci à elle de réparer mes bêtises avec patience 😘

En vrai c'est allé tout seul, il y avait certe beaucoup de couleurs à changer mais je suis très contente du résultat ❤️‍🔥
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Kit complet sur @woolandthegang
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#handmade #crocheting #firstproject #beginner #wool #crocheteveryday #crochet #craft #sweater #colorful #outfit #fashion #look #ootd
#ootd
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Mad A. Argon :qurio:

My cat-dragon Maalamin playing with #wool - because it's a thing cats should do, right? :blobcatgiggle:

(not to confuse with my old drawings with ball of wool as a symbol itself, even if wool on those pictures had similar colour... it is not related, unless some mystic force of fate was guiding my subconsciousness :blobcatgiggle: )

Maalamin's element is lightning, not fire... of course, cat's element should be static electricity (here paste that legend about Nikola Tesla as a kid, inspired by static charges on cat's fur) and it is both #dragon and #cat. Well, big cat. I imagine it about pony size, or slightly bigger (at least longer).

This time with wings hidden/disappeared because doing cat things with fairy-style wings could be inconvenient. Maalamin could hide or expose them if needed.

Cartoon style drawing of a cat-dragon creature mostly covered in dark teal fur, with pale blue scales on belly and black scales on all paws. Creature has long tail with few yellow scales at tip, dark purple-gray mane, four horns and some spikes on its back, being hidden wings. On this picture cat-dragon is lying on belly like cat or dog, playing with purple ball of wool and releasing electric charges from its tail.
#drawing#art#MastoArt
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Lichen

Finished this wrap a while ago but haven't been in a posting mood 'til now. This is 36 ends per inch in wool. The final length was a bit shy of two yards. I gave it to a friend who's helped me though some really difficult times recently, and it felt so good to give her a physical manifestation of my time, care, and attention.

I'm excited about weaving more fine fabric like this. Right now I'm setting up something thicker but still pretty fine, an Angora nylon blend at 24 epi. #textiles #weaver #weaving #fiberarts #wool #plainweave #loom

A rectangle of dark charcoal fabric on a wooden floor, fresh off the loom
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Wildwiese

Been curious how a nalbound bag would go, and a few weeks ago I was gifted the perfect yarn to play with. Turned out great, I think! The shoulder strap and white stripes are… appliqué? Made post-facto but attached as they were made.
Don’t know all the vocab- Finnish 2+2. Most connections were F1. Connection loops for the stripes/strap were picked up after the +2 of the stitch but before the stitch was finished. #HandMade #FiberArts #StringCraft #Nalbinding #Wool #Mastoart

Pictured: A dark grey woolen bag with white stripes across the front. Closing strap is narrow with a buttonhole. The pattern of the stitches give it a sort of braided or herringbone texture. There isn’t a closure yet, I can decide if I’m going to use a toggle or a button.
Pictured: A hand holding the bag open to show the closing strap and badge are all one piece. Also provides scale: the bag is not quite as wide as the hand is long.
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Mix Mistress Alice💄

"Despite receiving video evidence from PETA of workers violently beating, stomping on, and throwing sheep, leaving sheep with gaping wounds that were stitched up without painkillers, and even slitting a sheep’s throat while they were still conscious—all while claiming to uphold “ethical” practices—these companies have refused to ban wool.

The same kinds of abuse have been found at over 150 wool operations in seven countries on four continents. The industry has done nothing to prevent this abuse in any country, and the auditors they rely on have failed miserably to protect sheep. It’s been up to PETA to show a pattern of abuse time and time again."—People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

Sheep Slaughtered, Discarded Like Trash—Call On These Companies to Stop Selling Wool >

support.peta.org/page/79176/ac

support.peta.orgSheep Slaughtered, Discarded Like Trash—Call On These Companies to Stop Selling WoolPlease help animals suffering right now by urging Eileen Fisher, Everlane, Hestra, and Oiselle to ban wool.
#support#PETA#Wool
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