To say "wool" is like saying "a bike". What sort of bike? I wrote a few things about wool in the "winter riding forum" a week or two ago but not much. It is different depending on what animal it came from.

Also sheep, there is a lot of different qualitys. Next is how it is treated. "Superwash wool" is treated so that it can be washed in the washingmachine without felting BUT it got a hash treatment to "kill" a lot of its natural characteristics. It looks and feel more "dead" and is often more "sagging" when wet than natureal wool, around here that is called "100% pure wool".

Of course adding other fibers make it much less warm. I need a good reason to buy anything with more than 15% wool in it.

Socs and mittens I make myself and make them HUGE and wery "airy" (use much thicker knitting needels than adviced). I then felt it, most of the time using the washingmachine- together with jeans or towels. Super warm and almost windproof but not superstrong. Mending it and then feltingthe mended area is part of the game.