Worldbuilding: A Cure for Happiness - Iridescent Sheep

Worldbuilding: Iridescent Sheep in A Cure for Happiness

There are iridescent sheep in A Cure for Happiness! Someone asked me to talk a little more about them, so here's the post (from tumblr) where I explain more about the sheep:

So, these sheep have iridescent wool, which is neat because *iridescent*, but it’s also neat because I recently learned about the only mammal to have iridescent fur: the golden mole. (Here’s a link to a short article about it.) And apparently, its iridescent fur does great at repelling water.

So basically, these iridescent sheep have iridescent wool that also does a great job at repelling water. Which makes it wool that you can create jackets and raincoats and cloaks out of, so that you, fellow adventurer, can wear them in the rain without becoming a sopping wet mess as you travel.

In A Cure for Happiness, Brieuc’s family farm has iridescent sheep. They sell the wool to factories that then take that wool and turn it into yarn which they can then sell or make tight-knit water-proof clothing out of. Because its main use is to create clothing that protects you from the rain, the yarn has to be pretty fine so that the result can be a tightly-knit shield.

Also, it’s really hard to dye the wool/yarn from iridescent sheep, so whatever is made from it tends to stay iridescent. I don’t think that’s the worst thing in the world, though

There are probably going to be some more fun facts about the iridescent sheep, but for now, this is the main idea behind their concept.

 

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