Method

Nothing on this site has been put on an instrument. Each wool pillow in the picks was bought and handled, and none was measured. Numbers belong to published work and are linked in the sentence using them, or they are counts of what others have published.

Where does the wool science come from?

Fibre research, textile standards and published agricultural data, cited at the point of use rather than gathered in a list.

A citation sitting beside the claim it supports is easier to check than a bibliography at the bottom of the page.

What is original to this reference?

Tallies. When a figure is ours it is the result of reading a defined set of sources and recording what they say.

The method is plain and repeatable. It is also modest, and calling it anything grander would be a lie about a small piece of work.

When does something get corrected?

When a source is superseded, when a page changes after it was read, or when a reader shows the count was mistaken.

Fixes land in the sentence itself and the review line at the foot moves.