From gardening to construction and insulation, New England producers of sheep and alpaca wool are looking beyond the clothing ...
Doug Hoschek spent the 1980s traveling the country selling his new invention — Polar Fleece, which he says he invented in 1980. Hoschek, 64, has lived and breathed the textile industry his entire life ...
“Synthetic fleece isn’t fleece at all,” complains Jeremy Moon, the cultural anthropologist turned sustainable designer behind the wool-focused adventure-apparel maker Icebreaker. “It’s all plastic.” ...
Learn about small-scale wool processing and how to process raw wool and fleece by caring for and storing it correctly. Once you become a shepherd for sheep, goats, or other fiber animals, you’ll have ...
It can be tricky to properly clean and care for winter coats. Learn how to tackle everything from wool and leather to fleece ...
SYDNEY (Reuters) - The price of Australian wool favoured by Chinese clothing makers has dropped as much as 20% in the last fortnight, sales reports show, with would-be bidders shunning auctions as the ...