One of the best field trips I ever arranged was to take first graders to a living history farm where they mixed animal feed and watched how wool became yarn (and made little twisted wool bracelets to take home) and honestly would prevent the exact problem Alyssa saw here.

Alyssa Long

Today I have witnessed a comment section full of people who do not believe yarn is made from wool because wool is “shorter than yarn” anyway let me get back to staring at the wall in existential dread lmao