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​Peer reviewed academic articles
Open access and free to read.
A few articles are on French angora production as I use and like this yarn - when the rabbits are treated well and loved.
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The Cloth Exports of Flanders and Northern France during the Thirteenth Century:
A Luxury Trade?

Chorley, P. (1987). The Economic History Review 40 (3) 349-379

Spinning a Rich Tapestry of Changes:
Weaving, Sewing and Spinning Represented in French Female Writing

 Cullings, E. (2012). Colgate Academic Review 2:9

Textile entrepreneurs and textile workers in the medieval city
Deploige, J., Stabel, P. (2016). in Golden Times. Wealth and Status in the Middle Ages, ed. by Véronique 
Lambert and Peter Stabel (Tielt: Lannoo Publishers, 2016), 240-281


The Wool Processing Industry in an Era of Social Innovation.
How Has the Situation Changed in the Massif Central (France)?

Grison, J., Landel, P. (2019). Journal of Alpine Research

Genome Wide Analysis of the World's Sheep Breeds Reveals High Levels of Historic Mixture and Strong Recent Selection
Kijas, J. W., Lenstra, J. A., Hayes, B., Boitard, S., Neto, L. R. P., Cristobal, M. S., Servin, B., McCulloch, R., Whan, V., Gietzen, K., Paiva, S., Barendse, W., Ciani, E., Raadsma, H., McEwan, J., Dalrymple, B., Other members of the International Sheep Genomics Consortium. (2012). PLOS Biology 

Preparation and Marketing of Wool
Minyard, J. A., Kenneth, L. (1967). South Dakota Sheep Field Day Research Reports 10

The West European Woollen Industries and their Struggles for International Markets, c.1000 - 1500
Munro, J. (2000). ThesisUniversity of Toronto. WORKING PAPER no. 4UT-ECIPA-MUNRO-00-04

Impact of strong selection for the PrP major gene on genetic variability of four French sheep breeds
Palhiere, I, Brochard, M., Moazami-Goudarzi, K., Laloë, D., Amigues, Y., Bed'hom, B., Neuts, É., Leymarie, C., Pantano, T., Cribiu, E. P., Bibé, B., Verrier, É. (2008) Genetics, Selection, Evolution 40(6):663 - 680

Divergent selection for total fleece weight in Angora rabbits: Correlated responses in wool characteristics
Rafat, S. A., de Rochambeau, H., Thébault, R. G., David, I., Deretz, S., Bonnet, M., Pena-Arnaud, B., Allain, D. (2008). Livestock Science 113:8–13

The Rise of Market Culture: The Textile Trade and French Society, 1750-1900
Reddy, W. M. (1987) Cambridge University Press.

The diversity evolution of sheep morphology in French zooarchaeological remains from the 9th to the 19th century:
Analysis of pastoral strategy

Robin, O., Clavel, B. (2018). Journal of Archaeological Science 99:55-65

Approching sheep herds origins and the emergence of the wool economy in continental Europe during the Bronze Age

Sabatini, S., Bergerbrant, S., Brandt, L. Ø., Margaryan, A., Allentoft, M. E. (2019). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11:4909–4925

Wool production and quality traits of pure and crossbred Merino type sheep
Theron, P. G., Brand, T. S., Cloete, S. W. P., van Zyl, J. H. C. (2024). Tropical Animal Health and Production 56:47

​Provenancing Archaeological Wool Textiles from Medieval Northern Europe
by Light Stable Isotope Analysis (δ13C, δ15N, δ2 H)

Von Holstein, I. C. C., Rogers, P. W., Craig, O. E., Penkman, K. E. H., Newton, J., Collins, M. J. (2016). Plos One 11(10): e0162330

​iSheep: an Integrated Resource for Sheep Genome, Variant and Phenotype
Wang, Z. H., Zhu, Q. H., Li, X., Zhu, J. W., Tian, D. M., Zhang, S. S., Kang, H. L., Li, C. P., Dong, L. L., Zhao, W. M., Li, M. H. (2021). Frontiers in Genetics 12

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