Experience. Quality. Comfort.
In 1995, North Dakota Wooly Girls, a fine wool felt processing company, began offering its modest product line at the families' organic sheep farm in picturesque North Dakota. The first products were hand-made wool quilt batts and wool-filled comforters.
Four years later, when founders Janet Jacobson and Diane Schill received a Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Producer Grant, they expanded their study and strategy for adding even more value to their sheep’s wool via wool felt production.
Thus launched a new era for the company, which already had built a local name and reputation with loyal clientele. With new cottage-scale equipment, the company quickly and efficiently turned its flock’s wool into soft, highly durable felt.
Jacobson’s passion for art and sewing, fueled by her mother’s lifelong talents as a seamstress, met with Schill’s love of botany, biology and fiber arts to create some of the most wondrous and inspired clothing and home décor designs in the nation.
Wooly Girls has been featured in the Grand Forks Herald, the Fargo Forum, North Dakota Horizons and North Dakota Living magazine. Its fiber arts design lines are also showcased regularly at galleries like Michigan’s Heritage Arts Gallery and Minneapolis’ Textile Center.
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