>>A neat experiment that would prove whether or not fibers from sheep were >>finer in periods of the last thousand years or not would be to compare micron >>tests of HUMAN hair from those periods in those same finds as the wool to >>that of today.<<
I don't believe that you can compare sheep wool to human hair. They're both completely different from each other. One is hair, one is, well, wool. Each species ate different types of food. Well, wait. I've been reading Franklin's blog. Dolores VanHoofen may be a throwback to those ancient sheep. Perhaps there were some ancient sheep that did indeed go about plundering and pillaging, quaffing bad beer, and chowing down on greasy food. Perhaps they kept herds of sheep that produced the finer diameter wool. wrnk d2
