Wool
A natural animal fibre grown as a fleece.
How it connects
Wool is a kind of Animal fibre.
Other kinds of Animal fibre: Alpaca, Angora, Camel hair, Cashmere, Horsehair, Mohair and Silk.
In other taxonomies
- WoolUniclass, Ma_60_02_98nearly the same
- wool (hair material)Getty AAT, 300014074nearly the same
- woolWikidata, Q42329nearly the same
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Wool
8 terms, Wool to Horsehair
Record
- Broader
- Animal fibre
- Provenance
- referencedhttps://www.fao.org/docrep/pdf/012/i0987e/i0987e00.pdf, read 30 Aug 2026
For machines
Permanent address
/id/material/woolKnowledge 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
- narrowerAnimal fibreincoming
- belongs-to-axisMaterialoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetMaterialoutgoing
- broaderAnimal fibreoutgoing
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Animal fibreoutgoing
- ancestor (derived)Natural fibreoutgoing
- ancestor (derived)Natural organicoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Alpacaoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Angoraoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Camel hairoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Cashmereoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Horsehairoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Mohairoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Silkoutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uniclass | Ma_60_02_98 | Wool | nearly the same |
| Getty AAT | 300014074 | wool (hair material) | nearly the same |
| Wikidata | Q42329 | wool | nearly the same |