King Ranch, New Mexico · American Woolen, Connecticut
The wool behind every cape
Single-origin fleece from the high desert, spun and woven at one of the last woolen mills still running in America.
The Wool
American wool has its own mispricing. Our fleece comes from the King Ranch in New Mexico and is spun and woven at American Woolen in Connecticut, one of the last working woolen mills in the country.
Most of the wool grown in this country is shipped overseas to be spun into someone else’s fabric. Not because it can’t be done here. It can, beautifully. It is just expensive, and the market for it has to be built.
So we built our piece of it: fleece from one ranch, one mill, one workroom, and silver from one pair of hands, every step named.
01 — THE FLEECE
Single-origin, from a breed developed here
Two years to gather enough fleece from the King Ranch in New Mexico for one run of 150 undyed capes. That is the cost of insisting on single-origin wool from a breed developed here and nowhere else, acclimated over generations to the high desert.
- TO GATHER
- 2 years
- KING RANCH RUN
- 150
- NMSU RUN, BLACK
- 90
02 — THE MILL
Spun and woven in America
The fleece goes east to American Woolen, one of the last woolen mills still running in America, and becomes yarn, then cloth. From there it goes on to New York to be sewn by Katie and JR.
The buttons are silver, hand-hammered in Albuquerque by T Skies.
Our wool goods are not Native American made, and we do not say they are.
The hands the wool passes through
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King Ranch
Single-origin fleece, high desert New Mexico
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Jacob, Arthur and Tammy
American Woolen, Connecticut
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Katie and JR
Cut and sewn, New York
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T Skies
Hand-hammered silver, Albuquerque
THE WOOL