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sheep. for hand knitting and hobby knitting, thick wool yarns are frequently used. other animal fibers used include alpaca, angora, mohair , llama, cashmere, and silk. more rarely, yarn may be spun from camel, yak, possum, qiviut, cat, dog, wolf, rabbit, or buffalo hair, and even turkey or ostrich feathers
than synthetics because they can shrink, felt, stain, shed, fade, stretch, wrinkle, or be eaten by moths more readily, unless special treatments such as mercerization or superwashing are performed to strengthen, fix color, or otherwise enhance the fiber's own properties. protein yarns (hair, silk, feathers...
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