Wool Standards Sample, 1946: Grades 64, 70, and 80

Wool Standards Sample, 1946: Grades 64, 70, and 80

Wool Grades & Classing: Global Wool Trade

Samples from the US Quartermasters ‘Official Standards Box’. The 1926 standards distinguished 12 grades of wool by fiber diameter. By 1968 the U.S. classification had 16 grades, from finer than grade 80s, down to coarser than grade 36. This group of three samples shows the finer grades.

US Quartermasters Museum, Ft Lee, Virginia.

1946

Colour photograph.