Article content One of the spring chores at our places is to get the sheep and the alpacas shorn. This is not something I do myself. In theory I could, but the shearer does a much better and quicker job. With this in mind, I thought I would make the focus of this article wool. Wool is a textile fibre. The majority of the wool comes from sheep. As a fibre, wool differs from other fabrics such as cotton and linen in that wool is mostly proteins and some lipids while cotton and linen are mostly cellulose. We apologize, but this video has failed to load.