Sheep and local studies

There has been an interesting discussion on Instagram encouraging people in the UK to share photographs of rare sheep breeds...

Thanks to Emma @girlinknits for suggesting we use the #woolworks hashtag again during UK Wool Week; we thought it would be amazing to take this opportunity to highlight and celebrate the different British Sheep Breeds. Here's a lovely Southdown sheep to kick things off #showusyoursheepbreeds #woolworks #ukwoolweek #britishwool #notjustmerino

A photo posted by Team Wovember (@wovemberwool) on Oct 9, 2016 at 8:33pm PDT

This is from the UK, and many of these sheep are connected to local areas. This has led to some lovely photographs of sheep...

Hurrah for the diversity of #uksheepbreeds and #WoolWorks #ukwoolweek a glimpse of the hashtag action so far today!

A photo posted by Team Wovember (@wovemberwool) on Oct 10, 2016 at 10:32am PDT

#daughterofashepherd #Hebridean #sheep - what else would I choose as my #WoolWorks breed! We are on our way to visit @johnarbontextiles to go over future woolly plans, which seems a fitting end to #WoolWeek

A photo posted by Rachel Atkinson (@knittingtastic) on Oct 14, 2016 at 2:32am PDT

As well as photographs of items made with the wool of rare sheep breeds

Celebrating the beauty of different breed wool is something very close to my heart. I am still absolutely in love with this project from last year by @handmadebysigi - she took a range of wools and used each one to make a tiny sock from Sock Anatomy. Single breed yarns + socks = the perfect combo. What a fantastic way to experiment with different types of wool. (Don't forget you can buy Sock Anatomy, or any of the single patterns in the book, with 25% off until the end of the weekend - link in profile) #knitsharelove #notjustmerino #woolworks #knitbritish #lovelocalyarn #woolweek

A photo posted by Clare Devine (@knitsharelove) on Oct 12, 2016 at 8:21pm PDT

These cheeky little guys are starting to get too fresh with the ladies. So they have been banished to another pasture until some decisions can be made about them. @wovemberwool #Romney #Lincolnlongwool #rarebreed #naturalcolored #purebreedwool #britishbreeds #wovemberwool #woolworks #showusyoursheepbreeds #notjustmerino #sheepinPA #chestercountypa #ramlambs #ramlife #BrynMawr #LittleBit #Basil #Bruce

A photo posted by Amanda Barcenas (@pradodelana) on Oct 12, 2016 at 9:12am PDT

It made me hope that some UK public libraries are collecting this for their local studies collections.