Each merino wool hair can be as thin as 11.5 microns, or one-third the diameter of the average human hair. Any merino wool under 17.7 microns is considered fine, which is where most commercial merino ...

While other wools can be as coarse as 40 microns (think itchy grandma sweaters), merino wool can be as thin as 24 to 15 microns, which is exactly why the Ridge Merino Journey and Wander Merino ...

Pure Romney Keep about 1,000 pure Romneys to breed for lower micron wool. Frank’s Romney wool is typically 32-36 micron, but testing on the farm has shown several lines under 30 micron.

The Specs. The marquee feature of the Proof 72-Hour merino T-shirt is its fabric, a superfine 16.5 micron merino wool Proof sources from New Zealand.

Mattos continued, “we are all expecting the return of China to the wool market, many countries have huge stocks of thick wool and reality is that any wool above 22 microns is extremely difficult ...

Last week, 28-micron wool fleece lines lost 20c/kg to make 325c/kg; 30-micron lines shed 6c/kg to close at 297c/kg and 32-micron wool averaged just 238c/kg.