Animal fibre
A fibre obtained from an animal source, such as wool, hair or a silk-secreting insect, as distinct from a fibre of plant or synthetic origin.
Also called animal fiber.
How it connects
Animal fibre is a kind of Natural fibre.
Animal fibre includes Alpaca, Angora, Camel hair, Cashmere, Horsehair, Mohair, Silk and Wool.
Other kinds of Natural fibre: Plant fibre.
In other taxonomies
- animal fiberWikidata, Q874142nearly the same
- Uniclassno equivalent
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Animal fibre
2 terms, Animal fibre to Plant fibre
Record
- Also called
- animal fiber
- Broader
- Natural fibre
- Provenance
- referencedcomposition dictionary in a materials-retrieval system (src-05); ISO 6938:2012, read 22 Sep 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/material/animal-fibreKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- broaderAlpacaincoming
- broaderAngoraincoming
- belongs-to-axisMaterialoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetMaterialoutgoing
- broaderNatural fibreoutgoing
- narrowerAlpacaoutgoing
- narrowerAngoraoutgoing
- narrowerCamel hairoutgoing
- narrowerCashmereoutgoing
- narrowerHorsehairoutgoing
- narrowerMohairoutgoing
- narrowerSilkoutgoing
- narrowerWooloutgoing
- broaderCamel hairincoming
- broaderCashmereincoming
- broaderHorsehairincoming
- broaderMohairincoming
- narrowerNatural fibreincoming
- broaderSilkincoming
- broaderWoolincoming
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Natural fibreoutgoing
- ancestor (derived)Natural organicoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Alpacaoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Angoraoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Camel hairoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Cashmereoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Horsehairoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Mohairoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Silkoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Wooloutgoing
- sibling (derived)Plant fibreoutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikidata | Q874142 | animal fiber | nearly the same |
| Uniclass | no equivalent | searched 21 Oct 2026Animal fibre | animal fiber | animal fibre via https://uniclass.thenbs.com/download | none |