Wool long has been a critical element of military apparel. Wool is relatively plentiful. It keeps a body warm. If it catches fire, it burns slowly. April Gammache and her daughter, Gwendolynn Phillips ...

With the rise and rise of knitwear as high fashion, and the increasing popularity of arts and crafts, you're nobody these days unless you know how to knit. Knitting even has a few royal supporters.

A knitting revival is giving the owners of the 90 year old Wangaratta Woollen Mills in Victoria hope for the future of Australian superfine wool. To ensure there are no "roadblocks to success" the new ...

Australian farmers produce some the world's finest Merino wool, but almost all of it leaves the country soon after it's been shorn off the sheep's back. There's a been huge contraction in wool ...

And it adds a new, premium brand to the Australian Country Spinners stable. It is believed to be the first time a hand knitting yarn has been developed from superfine wool, which is traditionally used ...

The image of knitting has changed recently, with more young people taking it up Skills handed down through the generations are playing an integral role in the revival of the UK wool industry. "There ...

Briggs & Little's knitting yarn is a bit scratchy and has a faint whiff of its barnyard origins. But in today's $2.8-billion North American knitting market, both the yarn and the small Canadian ...