[Sabriel]

I was never big on leather in the first place. I like fuzzy things and they are easy (and cheaper) to obtain fake. Though I think if we tried we could obtain wool without bothering the animal. My best friend's family had a pet sheep (it had a nice warm barn, ate in a nice big pasture, and died of old age. It had lots of ponies to keep it company. It looked very happy to me.) and I think they sheared it just for it's own comfort. They didn't use the wool. Nobody in the family knew how to card wool, so they just tossed it or gave it away.

Not that most "wooly" things are wool anymore. I just picked up some nice fluffy "wooly" skeins of acrylic yarn to knit with.