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The Wool Wire | August 24, 2022

The fight to save Casentino cloth, plus wool packaging and the circular economy, Morgan Kurz's wool bike clothing, NZ millennials choosing wool home flooring, Wyoming’s Wool Initiative, Appalachian coal mines reclaimed for sheep farming, and Pendleton Woolen Mill tours

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A Gorgeous Gansey Escape

Follow a Cornish Gansey from sheep to sea in this gorgeous short film.

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A Quick Jaunt to Shetland

Join Mary Jane Mucklestone and Gudrun Johnston in Shetland!

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The Wool Wire | August 10, 2022

The life of a wool classer, sustainable traceable interlinings, wool urns and camping blankets, and hurrah for the pause of the Higg Index.

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🐑 Flock Talk Starts in One Hour!🐑

🐑 Flock Talk Starts in One Hour!🐑
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July Flock Talk

July Flock Talk
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Flock Talk: Postponed

Flock Talk: Postponed
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The Wool Wire | July 27, 2022

Photo by ekrem osmanoglu [https://unsplash.com/@konevi?utm_source=ghost&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=api-credit] / Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=ghost&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=api-credit] News snippets from the wool world Welcome to The Wool Wire, your semimonthly update on all

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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...

Heatwave: Wearing Wool in the Summer
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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