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Sheepskin is the hide of a Domestic sheep, sometimes also called lambskin. Unlike common leather, sheepskin is tanned with the Wool intact, as in a Fur.Delbridge, Arthur, "The Macquarie Dictionary", 2nd ed., Macquarie Library, North Ryde, 1991
The fleece of sheepskin has excellent insulating properties and it is also resistant to flame and static electricity. Sheepskin is a natural insulator, and draws perspiration away from the wearer and into the fibers. There, it traps between 30 and 36 percent of its own weight in moisture, and it is for this reason that sheepskin is commonly used to make chamois leather.
Testing at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the CSIRO Textile and Fibre Technology Leather Research Centre confirmed the advantages of medical sheepskin in the prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers. Pressure Ulcer Treatment
Sheepskin coats, vests, and sheepskin boots are common in the traditional dress of peoples throughout the Old World (wherever sheep are raised). They seem to be especially popular in the steppes of Eastern European and Northern Asia, and according to the French knight Robert de Clari, they were part of the national costume of the Cuman people who lived there circa 1200CE. In Ukraine a sheepskin coat is called a kozhukh and a vest a kozhushanka are an iconic part of the national costume, while in Russia the same coat was usually called tulup (тулуп). In Spain such a coat is called a zamarra, in Tibet a chuba, in Kazakh a Kazakh clothing, in Romania a cojoc. In the English-speaking world, one may speak of a shearling coat. During the 1970s in Britain the suedehead subculture adopted this item as an identifying fashion, and it also had some popularity with hippies in North America. Sheepskin-lined became popular worldwide in the late 1990s.
The use of sheepskin seat covers in moving vehicles dates back centuries, Retrieved on 15 September 2015 perhaps as long ago as the Bronze Age, when wagons and carriages were first used. The more sophisticated, tailor-made sheepskin car seat covers of the modern era have been popular in Europe for decades, and grew in great popularity in the United States in the mid 1970s.
Seed contamination is where patches of scar tissue remain, resulting from a healed seed burrow wound during the animal's life. This scar tissue can fall out leaving small holes after the pelt is processed or it can remain in place leaving imperfections in the pelt which cannot be corrected. Seed contamination is graded as follows: Sheepskin Seed Contamination Gradings Retrieved on 12 January 2009
In general, wool affected by skin diseases is not usable. Other problems include louse infestation, dead wool and regrowth.
Skins are classed, packed and sold in standardized wool lengths:
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