Kork wool کرک

Kork (کرک) is fine, soft, lustrous wool used for the pile of better rugs. In Persian dictionaries the word means the soft down that grows beneath goat hair, combed out and spun for shawls; in the carpet trade it means fine lamb's wool, usually from an early shearing. Trade sources disagree on which part of the animal it comes from: the neck, the underarms or the belly.

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See also Lamb's wool, Lustre, Pile

Last reviewed November 2026