Know your wool. Your Wool Woolens Easily differentiated from worsted fabrics, woolen cloth has a fairly fuzzy, naplike surface and does not develop a shine or patina with wear. Woolen cloth is always made from woolen yarn but does not have to be 100 percent wool in content. It is usually dyed and holds a crease well. While the yarn is spun, these staples yield a characteristic fuzziness, they are fairly weak because the fibers do not all lay in the same direction.
Woolens do, however, provide exceptional warmth due to their density and ability to trap air.
Woolen fabrics are excellent for seasonal sportcoats ad topcoats. Even at this high grade level, merino wools from Botany Bay and Port Phillip Bay, Australia, are considered the best of the best wools in the world. Super 100's yarn must be under 18 microns in thickness. A term used to indicate the merino qualities of certain wool fabrics that do not fall under the Super 100's classification because the yarn is slightly thicker than 18 microns. Shetland Wool Strictly used, the term applies only to the soft, raised fabrics woven from the wool of sheep from the Shetland Highlands in Scotland.