USA woolen mills

[ashling]

I was looking online today for the Faribault mills in Minnesota. I told my wife about them after reading about the company on DU. In looking for them I cam across a bunch of others operating here that have interesting histories and are keeping the American economy - what is left of it - going.You might want to check out some of these.

http://www.pendleton-usa.com/custserv/custserv.jsp?pageName=OurCommunity&parentName=AboutUs


http://www.woolrichfabrics.com/collection.php


http://www.amanawoolenmill.com/

http://www.woolenmill.com/


http://www.bemidjiwoolenmills.com/


http://www.johnsonwoolenmills.com/


http://www.fingerlakes-yarns.com/


http://www.northwestwoolen.com/Disaster.aspx


The last one here is really neat. They manufacture emergency blankets for the govt., Red Cross, and homeless shelters.
Why not put your local (or not) homeless shelter on your Christmas list and send them a box of blankets?
"Humanitarian" Wool Blanket Style #5309
Blend: 30% wool 70% synthetic.
Grey. 62" x 80" 2.25 lbs.
This is a warm, budget priced wool blanket. Affordable and practical for homeless shelters and large-scale disaster relief efforts. This blanket is not recommended for machine washing.
Price: $6.75 ea. Minimum order: 48 blankets, packed 12 blankets per carton or 30 per bale.
Price: $5.89 ea. Minimum order: 500 blankets

and then there is this:


Northwest Woolen Mills loves animals...during production of our wool blankets, we do make mistakes. Rather than throw the wool blankets away, we are happy to donate them to Animal Rescue Organizations. We accept Visa & Mastercard to cover the cost of shipping the blankets to your location.

[JanMichael]

1. Thank you for this! Bookmarked

and kicked

[NV Whino]

2. This is great

You should cross post in GD.

[rurallib]

3. Post this in GD also, will you ashling?

I think a lot of people would be interested in seeing this info.

[Brother Buzz]

4. Pendleton is shaky in my mind.

The cloth is still made in USA, so that's great if you are buying a blanket, but the iconic men's 'Pendleton' has been manufactured in Mexico for over fifteen years.

[ashling]

6. Thanks

I wasn't too sure about them and, frankly, some of the others could - for all I know - have connections that are, well, less than patriotic. Who better to vet them for me than the fine folks at DU?

The only thing I can say for sure about Pendleton is that I once got a gift certificate to Pendleton that I never used. :shrug:

[Brother Buzz]

7. Gift certificates should never expire

Unless that certificate has a clear expatriation date (up until recently, they were never dated), the card is still valid.

I've been thinking about Pendletons and Beach Boys all day long, and by the oddest coincidence, and out of the blue, my resident teen computer wiz, volunteered to download all the Beach Boys tunes onto my crappy generic car traveling mp3 player. How cool is that!

[ashling]

8. I'll remember that

if I ever find it again. When we moved back to Texas from Washington state we left some things in a storage unit. It may be in there.

It was a Christmas present from a Congressman for working for his reelection campaign.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. nicely done. bkmrkd and thanks

:)

agree that it should be xposted to GD.

:applause: