Keep Your Babies Protected Using Baby Blankets
What goes better with babies than lamb’s wool? Babies and wool have similarities, they are both tender, beautiful and huggable.
Wool is one of the most versatile fibers and still to this day science is unable to duplicate it synthetically. The history of who founded the uses of wool from sheep is unknown. The only thought that crossed my mind is maybe there’s a mother who is living in an extremely cold place and has observed these wonderful animals, then got the impression that the wool too would keep her baby warm and dry as it did with these creatures. A number of the original and premium cloths made from wool date back to 500 BC and was seen in a community in Greece. However, the earliest surviving textile is dated 1500 B.C. and found in a Danish bog.
Since sheep were found living in extreme temperatures, they adapted, weaving a perfect and sophisticated coat for themselves. Wool is a fantastic material. Their coats of fleece of tightly woven fibers contain lots of air pockets that keep them insulated them from the cold and the heat. Moisture will hold in a quarter of the wool’s mass. The outer cells of the fibers repel water while the inner cells absorb moisture. Because of this tendency to retain moisture, it is flame retardant. It dries very long so the person wearing it does not get cold or freeze. Lanolin, the fat in wool, is the reason why it is resilient to water. Wool also resists dust mites and bacteria, and naturally disinfects. Because of these assets, the ideal cloth for cuddling and pampering babies are woolen baby outfits, blankets and crib covers. Since it’s a natural absorbent, wool will suck up pigments revealing lush, passionate shades. Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Argentina are countries that largely supply wool.
In its beginning, the sheep’s ‘hair’ wasn’t, as we know it today as the thick wool fleece. More akin of a deer or goat, it was abrasive. It evolved into the form it is today by domestication, and it was around 10,000 B.C. that people in West Asia begun to tame sheep. At one time, as simple as they must have been, woolens were part of the riches of Babylon. They were cared to yield food, milk and cheese. Thousands of years were spent procreating sheep with the most excellent hair in a challenge to spin it into fiber. Yet people were spinning wool for clothing in approximately 5,000 B.C. As breeding was improved, between 3000 and 1000 B.C., the Persians, Greeks and Romans were responsible for spreading sheep throughout Europe. The original wool factory was inaugurated in 50 A.D. in Winchester England. England’s wool textiles export comprised two thirds of its overseas trade by the year 1660.
As the business blossomed, the task of spinning wool set on the oldest daughter who is not yet married, thus the term ‘spinster’ was born. It wrapped around a rod called ‘weasel’ as the yarn spun, that created a rolling, exploding noise. Recognize it? ‘Pop Goes the Weasel’ is the term that was derived from it. However, it was devices like the spinning jenny that pushed the business further.
Treat your baby with all natural woolen blankets, crib covers, even car seat covers. It is gentle and comfy. We are no different from the first mothers long ago who sought the best means to protect and care for their children – as mothers, that is what we do, and as a grandmother, you can be sure my grandbaby has a wool fleece blanket in her crib and one for the floor, and traveling. Isn’t it wonderful to watch her enclosed with one of nature’s most magnificent fabrics, in silence and under a deep sleep.
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