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10 unusual facts about Wool


Army Elements Fleece

The Army Elements Fleece (AEF) is a versatile, insulating layer that allows aviation crews to adapt to varying mission requirements and environmental conditions.

Belleville Primary School

The school uniform for (years 3–11) consists of colours such as white, light blue, and navy blue and must be either a polo shirt, fleece, sweatshirt, or cardigan/jumper.

Blackham baronets

It was created on 13 April 1696 for Richard Blackham, a woollen manufacturer and a turkey merchant.

Derek Bourgeois

Derek Bourgeois is married, and currently lives in Wool, Dorset, with his second wife, Norma.

Robert de Neubourg

Roger was responsible for the relocation of Bindon Abbey to Wool.

Sir Herbert Smith, 1st Baronet

During the First World War he was chairman of the Carpet Trade Rationing Committee and the Man-Power and Protection Committee and was a member of the Board of Control of the Wool and Textile Industries.

Turkish carpet

Wool on wool (wool pile on wool warp and weft): This is the most traditional and often the most "authentic" (if such a word can be used) type of Anatolian rug.

Wool-stapler

The importance of wool to the English economy can be shown by the fact that since the 14th Century, the presiding officer of the House of Lords has sat on the "Woolsack", a chair stuffed with wool.

Wool, Dorset

It has a stone halfway along it stating that those who deface or damage the bridge will be transported (sent to Australia or another penal colony) for the rest of their lives.

Woolbridge Manor House, a 14th-century building, is a prominent feature just outside the village and the location of Tess's honeymoon in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles.


Ankara Vilayet

Weaving was a popular industry in the vilayet but declined after the introduction of the railroad, where locals would export wool and mohair instead of weaving it.

Bardoka

The Bardoka or White Metohian sheep is a multi-purpose (milk, meat, wool and research) breed of domesticated sheep in Metohia.

Battle of Buena Vista

Meanwhile Wool rallied the broken regiments using the walls of the hacienda at Buena Vista as a defensive position supported by a battery under Thomas W. Sherman and two regiments of dragoons.

British colonisation of Tasmania

These settlers reared sheep and exported wool and mutton to Northern England.

Broadcloth

The raw material for broadcloth from Worcester was wool from the Welsh border counties of Herefordshire and Shropshire, known as Lemster (i.e. Leominster) wool.

Capote

Capote (garment), an early 19th-century winter coat made with a wool blanket such as a Hudson's Bay point blanket

Charles I. du Pont

He lived with his parents in New York until they established themselves in the wool manufacturing business at Louviers, across the Brandywine Creek from the DuPont powder mills and near Greenville, Delaware.

Cyril Wool-Lewis

From 1947 to 1952, Wool-Lewis was Commissioner of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Cyril Eric Wool-Lewis (1906 – 1975) was a British Colonial administrator whose responsibilities included the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Dean Z

ZZ Top asked Dean Zelinsky to create a guitar that was covered in sheep's wool.

Epinetron

Its decoration varied from scenes of women working carding wool, to symposia or Amazons.

Fiber festival

Fiber festivals bring together producers and vendors of mostly animal fibers such as wool, qiviut, camelid, mohair, and angora) is displayed.

Flocculus

Flocculus is the diminutive form of the Latin word for a tuft of wool: floccus.

Fort Wool

Fort Wool even has an association with the actor Sir Alec Guinness, who was grounded in a minefield off the fort in World War II.

Fred Drake

Fred recorded with a wide variety of musicians including; Daniel Lanois, Josh Homme, Queens of the Stone Age, Victoria Williams, Dave Grohl, Ted Quinn, Pete Stahl, Wool, Dean Ween and many others.

Georgia–Persia relations

Georgian “Dowry Books” very often refer to clothes make from fabrics manufactured in Iran, such as daraia of Yazd, wool of Kerman, daraya of Gilan, wool of Rizaiyh, sheidish of Yezd, and of Khar.

Huasco

The port was used between 1851 and 1873 to ship copper ore, copper regulus, alpaca wool and hides round Cape Horn to Swansea, Glamorgan and Wales.

Huddersfield Broad Canal

The Huddersfield Narrow Canal provided a heavily-locked Western connection to wool-weaving towns of the upper Colne valley (Golcar, Linthwaite, Slaithwaite, and Marsden) and across the Pennines to Saddleworth, Stalybridge and Manchester via Standedge Tunnel.

Innerleithen

At one point it had five significant wool mills (or hosieries).

Joseph Seligman

Joseph's father wanted him to enter the family wool business, but circumstances made this difficult; in particular, migration of the peasant class (Seligman's father's customers) from rural areas to urban meant a loss of job opportunities and a shrinking economic base in Baiersdorf.

Lesser Grey Shrike

It is built by both birds out of the stems of various flowering plants such as cudweed (Gnaphalium) and (Filago), and thyme (Thymus), and lined with whisps of wool, hairs, roots and feathers.

Lewis Einstein

The son of wool magnate David L. Einstein, Lewis Einstein had two sisters: Amy, who married Joel Elias Spingarn, and Florence, who married Sir Charles Waldstein.

Mérode Altarpiece

Peter or Petrus Engelbrecht, born around 1400, was probably a merchant of cloth and wool, and was very well off, with property in Antwerp, Mechelen and Luxembourg, and through his first wife in the duchy of Gulik and in Cologne in addition.

Offenham

The grange was established to enclose the large flocks of sheep needed by the Abbots to trade wool with Flanders.

Pilot jacket

Pea coat, the heavy wool overcoat traditionally worn as a navy uniform worldwide

PS Success

It towed barges of sawn red gum, wool and other cargo along the Darling and Murray rivers, as well as running as a passenger boat from Swan Hill to Mildura during 1915-16.

Rancho Las Positas y La Calera

Thomas Hope moved to Santa Barbara in 1850 to become a sheep rancher and prospered, especially when the price of wool skyrocketed during the American Civil War.

Refrigeration

William Soltau Davidson thought that Britain's rising population and meat demand could mitigate the slump in world wool markets that was heavily affecting New Zealand.

Saint Ouen, Jersey

The traditional nickname for St. Ouennais is Gris Ventres (grey bellies) - a reference to the custom of men from the parish to wear jerseys of undyed wool, which distinguished them from men from other parishes who generally wore blue.

Sandsfoot Castle

Evidence suggests that some of the stone used in the construction possibly came from earlier local ecclesiastical buildings that were destroyed after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, notably the Cistercian monastery Bindon Abbey, near Wool.

Scouthead

Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Scouthead stands on the old Wool Road between Lancashire and Yorkshire and contains several hostelries which were once important staging posts along the road.

Sir Joseph Robinson, 1st Baronet

The son of an 1820 settler, he fought on the side of the Orange Free State in the Basuto War, and later became a general trader, wool-buyer and stock-breeder at Dordrecht.

South African Jews

Benjamin Norden, Simeon Markus, together with a score of others arriving in the early 1830s, were commercial pioneers, especially the Mosenthal brothers—Julius, Adolph (see Aliwal North), and James Mosenthal—who started a major wool industry.

St Aldate's, Oxford

Opposite Christ Church is Alice's Shop, formerly frequented by Alice Liddell, and the model for the Sheep Shop in the "Wool and Water" chapter in Through the Looking-Glass.

The Society of British Interior Design

SBID lobbies government to protect and promote the design industry for legislation change in Britain and campaigns on sustainability issues through two Ambassadors, Robin Gibb CBE of the Bee Gees, Ambassador for Intellectual Property (IP) rights and Dame Vivienne Westwood, Ambassador for Wool as a sustainable fibre.

Titus Salt

In 1836, Salt came upon some bales of Alpaca wool in a warehouse in Liverpool and, after taking some samples away to experiment, came back and bought the consignment.

Tiverton, Devon

Many wealthy wool merchants added to the town's heritage: for example, John Greenway (1460–1529) added a chapel to St Peter's parish church in 1517, and a small chapel and almshouses in Gold Street which still stand; the Almshouse Trust still houses people today.

Tom Roberts

Shearing the Rams, based on a visit to a sheep station (large farm) at Brocklesby in southern New South Wales, depicted the wool industry that had been Australia's first export industry and a staple of rural life.

U.S. Army M-1943 Uniform

By 1941, soldiers wore a wool flannel shirt and wool serge trousers in winter and a cotton khaki shirt and trousers in summer, both with ankle length russet leather service shoes and OD canvas leggings, and often with the OD cotton M-1941 Field Jacket.

The "Jeep cap" (Cap, Wool Knit, M-1941) remained in service until the 1950s.

Via Gellia

The fabric Viyella, a wool and cotton mix, is named after the Via Gellia valley, the location of W. Hollins & Company's textile mill where it was originally produced.

Wealden cloth industry

Once dry, the cloth was brushed with teasels to get rid of loose threads; and finally the shearman cut off loose and projecting pieces of wool.

William, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg

He also held the dominions of Falkenberg, Cornberg and Langenschwalbach and he received a share of the Hessian toll on the Rhine and custom duties on wine, agriculture and wool and the toll at Boppard.

Wool combing machine

The wool combing machine was invented by Edmund Cartwright, the inventor of the power loom, in Doncaster.

Writing about Writing

Kent Haruf, To See Your Story Clearly, Start by Pulling the Wool over Your Own Eyes