The Swedish Wool Initiative says Swedish fashion and textile brands are increasingly seeking regionally-produced, bio-based and recyclable materials, such as wool. Credit: Shutterstock Using fibres ...

Soft wools pill, and there isn’t much you can do about it. I’d suggest that in the future, you buy a harder-surface wool, something with what is called a smooth hand. This is worsted wool. It’s made ...

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Nov., 1912), pp. 67-94 (28 pages) The different kinds of specialization, 68.--The woolen and worsted processes described and compared, 69.--Relative ...

International Textile Group's Burlington WorldWide division is buying Cleyn & Tinker, a Quebec, Canada-based worsted wool manufacturer. The 74-year-old Cleyn & Tinker produces 100 percent worsted wool ...