We collect the fur our wolfhounds and Alabais shed during grooming and plan to turn it into yarn that can be knitted into warm items.
Dog-Wool Yarn
We collect the fur our wolfhounds and Alabais shed during grooming and plan to turn it into yarn that can be knitted into warm items.
Volunteer team in action
The XTRAVERSE rehabilitation center's honorary donors Umka, Aiza and Buran. These dogs have given blood many times, donated their wool and taken part in canine-assisted therapy. They work with people all the time and do them a great deal of good.
The XTRAVERSE rehabilitation center is home to more than 40 Central Asian wolfhounds who shed all the time. That grew into a new direction: during their regular grooming the dogs are brushed out, and the wool is processed and spun into yarn, which is made into wristbands and other healing items for veterans of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and people with rheumatoid conditions.
Flora the wolfhound, with her old coat removed, getting ready for a bath and the new summer season.
Suleiman the wolfhound after his old coat was removed. XTRAVERSE rehabilitation center for giant dog breeds. He feels lighter without it.
The XTRAVERSE rehabilitation center for giant dog breeds produces a great deal of wool, so we started a direction that turns it into woollen goods. It is all done on a spinning wheel one of our volunteers inherited from her great-grandmother, and it is happening right now. This is how our giants' wool becomes healing items for people. The video shows a young woman volunteer with XTRAVERSE at the spinning wheel, spinning dog wool into yarn. Filmed in 2026.
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