Heatwave: Wearing Wool in the Summer
This may not seem an obvious time to talk about wool. Here in the United States, over 100 million people across 28 states are under some form of a heat-related alert, and conditions are even more critical in the UK and EU. And yet...
The Wool Wire | July 13, 2022
Wool harvesting innovations, a tax on sheep burps?! Estes Park round-up, Pendleton Healing Blanket, traceable wool collection from Australia and a nod to Duckworth, New Zealand’s wool standard, a take down of the Higg Index, and Faribault Mill expansion
Words in Wool: Eweleaze
A lesser-known word that Thomas Hardy helped enshrine in the OED.
The Wool Wire | June 29, 2022
A new mill in Nebraska, beating the Martindale abrasion tester, blending hemp and Merino, extracting keratin, best wool for cycling, and an Irish shepherdess.
June 2022 Flock Talk
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The Wool Wire | June 15, 2022
From lawsuits and wildfires to rare breeds, T-shirts, shepherd huts, the environment, and sheep on clotheslines
Walking the Floor Over Ewe: Wool Dust Mops
When it's time to clean your floors, consider wool.
The Wool Wire | June 1, 2022
Fleece to Fashion awards return, wool auction for Ukraine, uses for coarse wool, EU promotes sustainable textiles with key role for wool, sheep milk used to make vodka, and innovative manufacturing with wool
