Long-term employees at Chargeurs Wool in Jamestown, South Carolina, are some of the last holdouts from the diminishing textile industry in the U.S. — The wool is always the same, Cliff says. The machines that treat the wool, those are always the same, too. “But it’s the people who are the most interesting,” he says...

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Fred Roberts of Roberts Ranch in Cokeville, Wyoming, comes from a long lineage of sheep farmers. Today, he’s part of a growing resurgence of American wool producers. — Fred Roberts never set out to become a sheep farmer. But he couldn’t help it; it’s in his blood. Before Fred, Roberts Ranch was run by his […]

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