Farmers and experts focused on the fibre believe it can flourish with a little help. A low-rise warehouse just off a busy ...

Doug Hoschek spent the 1980s traveling the country selling his new invention — Polar Fleece, which he says he invented in 1980. Hoschek, 64, has lived and breathed the textile industry his entire life ...

“Synthetic fleece isn’t fleece at all,” complains Jeremy Moon, the cultural anthropologist turned sustainable designer behind the wool-focused adventure-apparel maker Icebreaker. “It’s all plastic.” ...

That gap is now at a 5½-year high as the price difference between 18 and 21 micron fleece wool grows. The Eastern Market Indicator closed at 1422c/kg clean after last week’s sales with Merino fleece ...

A Western Australian sheep that was unshorn for seven years has been captured and de-fleeced, with his wool weighing in at a whopping 22.2 kilograms. A sheep in regional Western Australia missed ...

Wool prices are 33 per cent higher than a year ago and the benchmark price is the highest in more than three years.