What else can be made with wool?

These views of twin lambs frolicking in green field after green field are a bit less charming for me today.  Turns out that this is mostly lamb for eating.  The farmer can get as little 50 pence for a fleece these days.

What are we wearing?  Almost entirely synthetics.  Today’s layers include a REI synthetic running shirt, topped by a synthetic REI long sleeve shirt, and over that a fleece by Mountain Hard Wear.  Some days I have short sleeve Merino wool tops that I wear – but they don’t grow Merino sheep around here.  The shops in Edinburgh features wool kilts, but mostly things made from cashmere – also not from around here.

If we are not wearing this wool and not sleeping under wool blankets, who is going to buy this?