The musk ox, an ancient creature that was nearly wiped out of existence a century ago, has made a comeback in the Arctic, bringing with it one of the rarest and finest fur coats on the planet. The ...

There's a secret hiding under the thick, coarse pelt of muskox: a wool that's light, soft and warm, and which a group of people in Kuujjuaq, Que., recently learned to turn into yarn. It all starts ...

For many Canadians, wool is wool. You've got your cashmere, your merino wools, and a bunch of wool blends with varying levels of itchiness. But for fibre enthusiasts, qiviut — or muskox wool — is one ...

June 21 (UPI) --On a blustery March day at the Large Animal Research Station, just outside Fairbanks, Alaska, manager Emma Boone plods through the facility's northern paddock as a pair of teenage musk ...

From a gentle Arctic beast has come one of Alaska`s success stories. Beneath the long, coarse outer hair of the musk ox, or ”oomingmak,” as the Eskimos call it, comes a wool softer and rarer than ...

Winter weather is upon us, and for those of us who live in colder regions, that means bundling up in sweaters, scarves, and knit clothes of all kinds. Keeping warm is of utmost important as the ...

Luna is a 15-year-old musk ox living at the Musk Ox Farm in Palmer. The nonprofit farm will open to the public on Mother’s Day, May 14. During the spring, the under-wool called qiviut is combed from ...

Instructor Rachel Guindon, left, walks participants through the process of turning the underwool from muskox — called qiviut — into yarn that can be used to create hats, sweaters and more. (Source: ...