{"id":112,"date":"2012-05-14T09:30:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T09:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/towardsdolly.wordpress.com\/?p=112"},"modified":"2012-05-14T09:30:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T09:30:28","slug":"animal-genetics-and-the-textile-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/2012\/05\/14\/animal-genetics-and-the-textile-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Genetics and the Textile Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>One of the most interesting things I\u2019ve found in cataloguing the off-print articles collected by the scientists at the Roslin Institute is the variety of areas in which animal genetics can be applied. It can range from animal breeding to cloning and from food production to the textile industry among other many other things. For example, Dr. Michael L. Ryder, a biologist and textile fibre consultant who worked at Animal Breeding Research Organization, Edinburgh in the 1960s and 1970s, wrote many interesting papers on sheep and the wool and textile industry from prehistoric times up to the late 20<sup>th<\/sup> century. His articles, in journals ranging from <em>Animal Production <\/em>to <em>The Journal of the Bradford Textile Society<\/em> discuss findings from historical records and biological data such as techniques for identifying the animal fibres in pre-historic cloth to studies on environmental conditions on wool fleece structures. <a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/files\/2012\/05\/abrovol4ryder225_11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-118 alignright\" title=\"ABROVol4Ryder225_1\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/files\/2012\/05\/abrovol4ryder225_11.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"Shetland Sheep and Wool\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/files\/2012\/05\/abrovol4ryder225_11.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/files\/2012\/05\/abrovol4ryder225_11-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/files\/2012\/05\/abrovol4ryder225_11-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/files\/2012\/05\/abrovol4ryder225_11-624x832.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">Some particular articles of interest by Dr. Ryder are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align:left\">\u00a0\u201cSheep and wool in history\u201d, <em>Journal of the Bradford Textile Society<\/em>, 1962-1963, p. 29-43 (GB 237 Coll-1362\/1\/159);<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align:left\">\u201cA late Bronze Age find from Pyotdykes, Angus, Scotland, with associated gold, cloth, leather and wool remains\u201d, <em>Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society<\/em> Vol. XXX, 1964, p. 186-198. (GB 237 Coll-1362\/1\/169)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSheep and the Clearances in the Scottish Highlands : a biologist&#8217;s view\u201d <em>Agricultural History Review, British Agricultural History Society, <\/em>Vol. 16, Part 2, 1968, p. 155-158. (GB 237 Coll-1362\/1\/284)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once they\u2019re made available to researchers, these articles will provide a fascinating insight on the history of woollen textiles!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most interesting things I\u2019ve found in cataloguing the off-print articles collected by the scientists at the Roslin Institute is the variety of areas in which animal genetics can be applied. It can range from animal breeding to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/2012\/05\/14\/animal-genetics-and-the-textile-industry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40Aqf-1O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/towardsdolly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}