Moreno Sheep

People who make cosmetics or drugs are mostly interested in profits, not progress. They found, long ago, that the chemical approach to health was not workable, so they turned to stronger assertion of their lies as the "true science" and added monopolies and government protection of their chemicals as being the ONLY legal way you could claim to improve the health of the body -- the skin, fingernails and hair included.

However, if you are interested in making wool clothing -- you being a manufacturer of clothing -- you would be free of the blinders that control our health care system.

As an ordinary businessman, interested in the profits that come from providing good products, you find that SOME wool is better than OTHER wool -- when it comes to a raw material for the clothing you make.

It was easily discovered that ONE particular breed of sheep produced wool that was so superior that it became known and prized among not only the clothing manufacturers who found it so attractive to the consumer, but to the ranchers who were looking for a better animal to raise and turn into a good business.

The Moreno Sheep has millions of web pages devoted to it, and millions of ranchers as well as researchers studying just what is so different about the Moreno Sheep that makes them such an unusual and useful source for WOOL?

The answse is in many thousands of web pages, but it is not at the store where you buy your face cream.

Because the cosmetic industry has been led astray by the drug industry to sell only chemicals to produce effects

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Our coats are made with Spanish Moreno Shearling which is the highest quality Shearling available.

When making a Shearling coat the most important step is to start with premium quality Shearling skins. You can use a great pattern with the best sewing in the world, but if the skins are sub par, the coat will never be worn because it is uncomfortable.

A Little History

For centuries the Shepherds of Southern European (Spain, Italy, Portugal) Moreno Sheep have controlled the breeding of their flocks to produce sheep with very tender meat, as well as, to have superior leather and wool qualities. Their skins are extremely lightweight, peachy soft, flexible, and amazingly warm which makes them the ultimate in comfort and warmth for Shearling Coats. Every spring the buyers from the best tanneries in the world can be found in Spain, Italy, and Portugal securing their supply of the best garment quality Shearling skins available. These are the Shearling skins coveted by Mill Valley for almost three decades.

Click on the "second source" link for this pop up window -- where this and several other Moreno Leather Coats are shown for sale.

If this leather is as valuable at this price indicates, can't you be sure that some heavy money has gone into research what makes THIS sheep so much more valuable as a source of leather and wool than any other sheep?

Certainly it is the breed of sheep, but once you have a valuable sheep, you would also want to be very, very sure that it got just the right food!

Sulfur is a vital element in the quality of the skin and wool of the Moreno - even among Moreno (!!) those Moreno Sheep that ate "well" (meaning high sulfur) gave the very best wool and leather!

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Merino

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An unshorn merino sheep.

The merino is the most numerous breed of sheep in the world. It is a breed prized for its wool, although more recently the low price of wool has led to more of an emphasis on carcass (meat) characteristics. Super fine merinos are regarded as having the finest and softest wool of any sheep. There are two basic strains of Merino: poll animals have no horns (or very small stubs), and horned merinos have long, spiral horns which grow close to the head.

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1 Wool
2 Regions of merino husbandry
3 History
4 Etymology
5 See also
6 References

Wool

Although the merino is an excellent grazer and very adaptable, it is bred chiefly for its wool, because it matures slowly and its mutton is generally of poor quality, excepting the related South African Mutton Merino and Merinofleischschaf derivative breeds. The wool is tightly crimped and springy. Staples are commonly 2.5–4 inches (65–100 mm). A merino produces 7–13 lb (4.5–6 kg) of unwashed wool in one year. Merino wool is generally less than 24.5 micrometres (microns) in diameter. Fine merino wool is less than 21.5 µm and extra-fine merino is under 19.5 µm.

The term "merino" is widely employed in the textile industries with very varied meanings. Originally it was restricted to denote the wool of the merino sheep reared in Spain, but owing to the superiority of Australian and New Zealand wools the term now has broader use. In the dress-goods and knitting trades the term "merino" still implies an article made from the very best soft wool. "Merino" is sometimes employed to mean knitwear produced with a special worsted yarn made of 100% wool.

The beauty of the fiber itself is evident in intense, cold-weather or high-performance applications, where merino distinguishes itself from cotton and polyester fabrics by offering superior breathability, temperature regulation, moisture control, and inherent anti-microbial properties. Unlike "traditional" wool, merino is much finer, softer, and, best of all, itch-free for all but those with severe sensitivities or lanolin allergies.

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Regions of merino husbandry

Merino grazing in an open air museum in Baden-Württemberg

The rearing of merinos predominates in many regions where sheep are bred for their wool rather than their mutton, as in New Zealand, Australia, Argentina, South Africa and the western United States. In Australasia, especially in New Zealand, the merino has been crossed with Lincolns, Leicesters, Shropshires, Suffolks and other breeds to improve mutton quality. The merino is not commonly bred in the United Kingdom, as the humidity engenders wool rot and cotting (matting which is caused by movement of the fleece relative to the sheep).

History

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The merino appears to have originated from the crossing of Spanish with Berber sheep breeds in the 14th and 15th centuries. Merino breeders were associated in the Mesta and maintained a monopoly on the race. Sheep exportation was forbidden, and wool commerce through the ports of the Hermandad de la Marina de Castilla (the local shipping authority at the time) to Flanders and England was a source of income for Castile in the Late Middle Ages.

However, merinos spread over Europe, especially to Austria-Hungary, Germany and France. The best-known derivative breeds are the Rambouillet, a large merino named after the village near Paris, to which it was exported towards the end of the 18th century, and the Negretti, which stands in closer relationship to the old Spanish stock and has shorter wool but a more wrinkled fleece. The so-called "American merino", the Delaine, the Vermont and the Rambouillet, are well-known derivative breeds in the United States. They were first brought over to Maine from Portugal in 1810 illegaly by Capt. Ephraim Sturdivant.

Etymology

There are two proposed origins for the Spanish word:

Merino may be an adaptation to the sheep of the name of a Castilian official inspector (merino), who may have also inspected sheep pastures. This word is from the medieval Latin majorinus, a steward or head official of a village, from major, meaning great.
Merino may from the name of a Berber tribe, the Marini (or in Castilian, Benimerines), which intervened in the Iberian peninsula during the 12th and 13th centuries.

It is easy, now, to say that American sheep ranchers never had a chance with the superior breed, the Mereno Sheep, to develop the high quality wool and leather possibilities that have proven so popular around the world.

Yet, a newspaper published in 1814 or 1815 contains a reference to a herd of 100 Mereno Sheep being advertised for sale. Click here for that reference.

Moreno Sheep

It may seem strange, but there is hardly a more distant subject (the Moreno sheep) that could be more relevant to the health of YOUR skin, fingernails and hair.

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Merino

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Contents

Wool

Regions of merino husbandry

History

Etymology