It's oddly relevant to this story that my mother's pure Icelandic lineage has been carefully recorded and passed along since 600 AD. The countryside in Iceland has always been filled with sheep, which they pronounce 'seeps', something I find charmingly amusing. Scandinavian culture has much to do with seeps and wool. Thus, the hot trend for Scandinavian style chairs covered in woolly upholstery strikes me as both culturally organic and touching. Long hair, curly hair or woven with a loopy texture, the upholstery can be genuine hide or a woven blend of wool with linen, viscose or polyester. The wool content gives it the loft, the textile term for volume.
