Mil leches [Mongrel] (2024) is a textile piece made from wool sourced from the fifty-two sheep breeds recognised in the Official Catalogue of the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture. Through this archive of the genetic and cultural diversity of sheep livestock, the work challenges the narratives of purity and linear progress associated with agricultural modernisation and champions hybridisation as a principle of biological and cultural resilience. The article also points out that merino wool —the result of cross-breeding between North African sheep and native breeds— was one of the key livestock products in the formation of the first modern European financial markets, playing a particularly significant role on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange during the early days of commercial capitalism. From this perspective, Molinos places the rural world at the heart of the genealogy of economic and technological modernity, challenging the historical divide between rurality and innovation.