Wool!

Episode notes

Alex Schmidt is joined by comedians Caitlin Gill (stand-up album ‘Major.’, site GuaranteeShirts.com) and Shelby Wolstein (‘Keeping Records’ podcast) for a look at why wool is secretly incredibly fascinating.

Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.

(Alex’s podcast hosting service requires a minimum of 5 characters per episode title, so that’s why this episode’s title has 1 exclamation point)

LINKS FOR THE GUESTS:

• GuaranteeShirts.com
• Caitlin Gill’s stand-up album Major.
• Caitlin Gill on Twitter
• Shelby Wolstein on Twitter
• ‘Keeping Records’ podcast (Headgum)

RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

• native-land.ca
• U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
• The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
• Mapping Manahatta: 10 Lenape sites in New York City (6sqft)

RESEARCH SOURCES:

• The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History by Kassia St. Clair
• Fur, Wool, Hair: What’s the Difference? (LiveScience.com interview with Kamal Khidas)
• Pampa Galeras National Reserve — Lucanas Province, Peru (Atlas Obscura)
• 5 Unusual Types of Yarn (Mental Floss)
• YouTube video shows qiviut harvesting at UAF (University of Alaska at Fairbanks press office)
• Why England Once Forced Everyone to Be Buried in Wool (Atlas Obscura)
• Maken Engelond Gret Ayeyn: How the contest between free trade and protectionism sparked fervor and unrest in medieval England. (Lapham’s Quarterly)
• How to Extract Lanolin from Sheep’s Wool (MorningChores.com)
• Traveling through the history of Britain’s textiles (British Heritage Travel)
• The World’s Top Wool Producing Countries (WorldAtlas.com)
• cashmere (Encyclopedia Britannica)
• Feeling Sheepish: Where did the phrase black sheep come from, anyway? (Lapham’s Quarterly)
• NZ’s famous sheep gets TV haircut (BBC News)
• RIP Shrek, the sheep that bewitched a nation (The Independent)
• Shorn the sheep: Chris sets world record with fleece weighing more than 40kg (The Guardian)
• Woolly Mammoth: Shearer Saves Hugely Overgrown Sheep (NPR’s The Two-Way)