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American Indian woman wearing trade blanket

British RAF tunic WWI

parti-coloured convict suit

Skein winding, woolen mill, 1918

Wool ship Torridon

Table: World Sheep Numbers

Greek vase painting, Jason and the Golden Fleece

Hypo helmet style wool gas mask of the type used at Gallipoli

Image of samples from NMAH Consular collection of spun paper yarns and textiles collected in Plauen, Germany in 1907

Photograph of men at tables sorting wool, open bale of wool marked Australia in foreground

Photograph of US Army woolen textile swatches from WWII

Photograph of swatches of women textiles used by the US Navy in WWII

Photograph in storage of selection of German made spun paper yarn military equipment, acquired as salvage after WWI by the US Army and later donated to the US National Museum

Photograph of fine, open weave cloth made in Germany of spun paper yarns during or just after WWI

Poster exhorting growing of lambs for shearling for flying suits, US, WWII

Poster, UK, 1940, exhorting civilians to fight damage to woolen garments and textiles, probably to help conserve wool in wartime

One of a series of 1912 photographs of the American Woolen Mill operations in 1912. Series owned by NARA and also by NMAH/Textiles. NARA set mounted to small cards, seen here.

Photograph of woman in white headscarf and smock sorting war relief supplies onto shelves, 1918

Photograph of weave room of the Garfield NJ mill of Forstmann & Huffman Co. Passaic, NJ. No workers visible, looms are stopped but have cloth in place.

Photograph of group of the crew of the USS Guinever on shipboard, before sailing for France, 1917

Photograph of men and women, possibly under guard, packing sacks with wool. German Official Photograph. August 1917. Wool is for delivery to Germany. Note on card: Bufa 4534. Roumania.

Photograph, NYU knitting course, 1918

Photograph of Portland (Oregon) Woolen Mill factory floor showing women sewing hems and perhaps embroidering the letters US on blankets made for the US Army during WWI.