SHEAR Internship Paintbrush Series Blanket

This is a premium 100% Mountain Merino® wool blanket designed by students in our 2024 SHEAR (Student Hands-on Education And Research) program.  Read on to learn more about how this blanket supports this amazing one-of-a-kind opportunity for students.   Program Background Since 1960 Wyoming and other US states have decreased yearly wool production by 90%.  By the early 2000's the last remaining University wool programs were shutting down.  Textile manufacturing has been on a decades long decline and in 2023 alone nine (9) more of the large scale textile manufacturing facilities in the USA closed including 2 major wool specific facilities.  We are losing our supply of wool, we are losing our manufacturing capabilities, and we are losing our knowledge and skill sets in the US wool industry.   When Mountain Meadow Wool started in 2007 we were told our idea for a vertically integrated wool processing facility would never work and to a large degree the nay-sayers where right.  But.... they f