Now, you may think … [that] … camel wool is quite famous for making rather nice garments. However, normally such wool is sourced from two-humped camels who live in the cold and high-altitude deserts of Mongolia and China. Our wool is from one-humped dromedary camels ((Incidentally, here’s a brochure on the Camel Conservation and Livelihoods
Project initiated by the NGO LPPS in Rajasthan (India) and just posted to DAD-Net. We live to make these connections.)) whose hair is quite short and rough and was until now believed to be much too scratchy to process into any thing else than a rope or a rug.
Actually I did think that. You live and learn. But really, would it kill the Rolex Award people to enable an RSS feed from the blogs of their laureates?
