A Word on Our Sheep

A happy, robust sheep makes for good wool. And not just “good”, but the BEST wool in the world. The amazing quality of the Himalayan wool used by Tamarian Carpets is no happy accident. Nor is it the result of just savvy shopping in the wool marketplace by a *Master Wool Shopper, who touches, smells, and may even taste the various wool lots like a fine wine producer buying grapes for the upcoming vintage. Tamarian Carpets circumvents the open market and procures its fine wool, the foundation of any good rug, directly from the people who care for these animals.

And CARE they do!

It was unknown to scientists previously that sheep can actually coo like human babies when in a state of absolute bliss. This sound is also akin to a cat’s purr or the gentle humming of a very happy squirrel. When first present for this unorthodox noise, some people are shocked (photo inset) and even frightened by the alien noise that is immediately identifiable as “the sound of the happiest sheep I’ve ever heard.” It has been reported in multiple cases that people who spend time with these sheep actually feel a deepened sense of depression because they feel they will “NEVER be as happy as that (expletive) sheep!”

Is it because their luxurious coats are sheared by loving hands with pre-warmed shears? Is it because their minders typically sing 3-4 hours a day to them, most often selecting tracks from “The Bharal Band Greatest Hits”, a little known folk group whose members include the world’s most accomplished and celebrated nose flutist? Who also happens to be a sheep?

Perhaps. But most people who study these things are single….AND have another theory which states that the sheer bliss that these sheep experience is a product of their product becoming such an amazing product (we didn’t say these people were eloquent). In other words, happy sheep make good wool that ends up becoming the GREATEST carpets. Therefore it behooves us ALL to make sure these sheep live a healthy, long life in order to contribute their living couture to become FLOOR couture (a term that has maybe been used before but THIS author is SURE it was his first…plus it finishes the rhyme so deal with it.)

~ NB

* As far as this author knows, such a title does not exist per se, but oddly enough there is a whole magazine, Master Wool Shopper Illustrated, devoted to the profession I clearly made up.