Curious Tots: How wool is made into fabric - from farm to shearing shed to mill | Educational videos

Join cheeky monkey Po as she goes from the farm to the mill to learn about how wool from sheep is made into fabric for clothes. Po watches sheep shearing at Australian sheep yards, then follows the bales of wool to a mill to be woven into fabric. Australia is famous for producing high quality merino wool. The farms and sheep yards featured are in the beautiful Australian country: Murrulebale NSW, Nagambie VIC, Carrathool NSW and Barmedman NSW. The mill featured is the historic Waverley Mills in Launceston, TAS. Once or twice a year when the sheep’s wool grows thick, the sheep are mustered into yards for shearing. Shearers drag sheep onto the board and position them between their legs, then use clippers to shear off the thick layer of wool. It takes a lot of skill and hard work. Once the sheep are shorn, they are sent down a chute and given a lice treatment before being sent back to the paddocks. The wool that falls away from the sheep is called a fleece. Roustabouts check and skirt the fleec