the.com/woolen mill
Where sheep's bad hair day becomes someone else's sweater.
means A factory where raw wool is cleaned, carded, spun, and woven or knitted into yarn and cloth.
from A plain compound: 'woolen' (made of wool, from Old English 'wull,' tracing back to a very old Indo-European root for sheep's fleece) plus 'mill,' which originally meant a building with machinery for grinding grain and widened, as water- and steam-power spread, to cover any factory built around mechanized processing — fulling mills, sawmills, and eventually mills that carded and spun wool into cloth.
- origin era
- industrial revolution ran on wool before cotton took over
- process
- fleece gets carded, spun, woven, then felted or fulled
- smell
- lanolin makes the whole building smell like sheep
- legacy
- many old mills now sell craft beer, not blankets