Is a shearling coat made from lamb skin?
Shearling is not wool. Instead it is the pelt (skin with wool)
of a sheep that has been shorn only once. The skin to which the
wool adheres is soft, sometimes as soft as suede. It seems,
therefore, that the young animal is shorn just once simply because
its wool is long enough for the first time for the animal to be
shorn. Soon after that it is slaughtered.
What most people do know about "shearling" is that luxury
apparel and footwear is made from this soft and warm pelt. The
skins are tanned with the wool of uniform length to create a
luxurious pelt that is then transformed into shearling coats,
shearling jackets and other wonderfully warm items of apparel and
boots.