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Charlie Bishop is keen on touting the virtues of wool. Besides being all natural and biodegradable, wool, he will tell you, is flame, water, wrinkle and stain resistant--plus it keeps you warm in winter and cool in summer. But first and foremost, he wants to spread the word that wool isn't scratchy. "That's the presumption we've got to change," he says with a grin. Today's wool, like the kind being produced by his family's business, Pendleton Woolen Mills in Portland, Ore., is soft, supple, lightweight and not at all irritating...
...Bishops are among the world's best wool craftspeople, outfitting legions of Americans since 1863 with signature products like plaid lumberjack shirts and brightly colored blankets. And that isn't likely to change, despite stiff competition from China, where textile quotas are about to be lifted. Although Levi's 501s, Fruit of the Loom briefs and Pillowtex pillows are no longer "Made in America," this Pacific Northwest apparel maker has found a way to continue weaving woolens here at home. Knowing it can't compete against overseas firms on low cost or mass scale, the private company has kept...
...Back at Kintore's shed, Josephine Napurrula applies the last of her white impasto daubs to the canvas. These are packed like cotton-wool clouds around the picture's central image of an ice-gray waterhole. "Finished," she says, before breaking into raucous laughter. Now, in the desert, a new journey begins...
William H. Macy stars in The Wool Cap--a story about a mute alcoholic who gets stuck taking care of a junkie's child--which he adapted from the 1962 movie Gigot. It airs...
...Rock. I say thee nay! He pulled off a tour-de-force that had me fooled for about 20 minutes that he was destined for immortality when he got shot in Con Air and didn’t flinch or anything. But he couldn’t pull the wool over our eyes forever. We know those were fake bullets...