With fashion trends in Europe and the US supporting knitwear products — which are made from shorter carding type wool — the appetite for carding wool doesn’t look like slowing down. The carding ...

While prices have dropped from the record levels reached last August, they are still about 65 per cent of the value of Merino fleece when compared to the 20-micron indicator. And the demand for ...

It is often referred to as the daggiest wool on the sheep, but carding wool is now in hot demand, worth almost as much as a merino fleece. Cardings, which are often the greasy, short locks, are ...

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 ...

Trevor Goodwin of Andrews, South Carolina, is using an overhead hook on a motorized track to pick up bulging cloth packages and maneuver them into position. He cuts and tears open the packages, which ...