Delivered by a highly experienced team of instructors, the programme will see courses running between April and August, providing training in machine shearing, blade shearing and wool handling. Ulster ...

These women have found a community in an unlikely place — the male-dominated shearing sheds. From wool-classers to ...

At daybreak on a freezing cold day high in the Andes, dozens of Peruvian peasants clamber up a mountainside to carry out a centuries-old tradition of shearing the highly-prized wool off vicunas, which ...

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Ish, a herdsman from Erdenetsagaan soum, Sukhbaatar province, will compete for the championship at the Golden Shears World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships, the sport's premier event being held ...

Vicunas in Totoroma, Peru, ahead of the annual ancestral "chaccu" shearing - Copyright AFP Lillian SUWANRUMPHA Vicunas in Totoroma, Peru, ahead of the annual ...