An Icelandic wool manufacturer is pioneering a new technology putting a new twist on the fiber’s outerwear performance benefits. Reykjavik-based Icewear, known for its traditional Icelandic knit ...

Spanish outdoor-apparel brand Ternua has launched an initiative to create thermal insulation for outerwear using waste wool from local sheep. More than 800,000 latxa sheep currently roam the wilds of ...

Shear a llama and you get a fine fleece that for millennia served to insulate and protect people in the Andes region of South America. Today, a Utah company is bringing llama fleece to the mainstream.

Icebreaker is a New Zealand company that makes clothing for men and women entirely from Merino wool. If the idea of swaddling yourself entirely in sheep-stuff is appealing now, wait til you look at ...

Two-thirds of the wool produced by a flock of sheep at Bare Ranch, a large ranch in Northern California, is now going to The North Face. The ranch was the first to adopt a so-called “carbon farm plan” ...

As winter sets in, many of us are turning to our cosy jumpers, snug base layers and anything else that can take the bite out ...