I've been working on an article about fiber-producing animals that can be used as inspiration for worldbuilding — for example the fictional nightsheep developed by L. E. Modesitt Jr. in the Corean Chronicles, which eat crystalline cactus and produce coats that can be processed into a cloth known as nightsilk.
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