Wool used to be a huge industry in Texas, but those days are long gone. Two mills have stuck it out, but it hasn't been easy: 'We launched our Etsy shop and it was 10 months from the day we launched it ‘til the day we made our first sale.' (texasstandard)
Seth Warnock owns and operates Marathon Basin Wool Mill with his wife, Bonnie. They purchased machinery from the 1950s and taught themselves how to prepare and spin sheep wool, producing high quality wool for sale worldwide.In the 1950s and '60s, the idea that Texas would one day relinquish its position as the epicenter of the wool and mohair world must have felt unfathomable.Raising sheep and goats was crucial to the state’s economy and culture.
“We built the building, poured the floor, bought the equipment, moved it in, and then learned how to run it,” he says. Besides Warnock, nobody in Texas knows better than Dawn Brown how difficult milling can be. Brown runs another mill. Actually, it’s Texas’ only other wool mill –“It’s not just knitting all day or playing with fiber all day,” she says. “There’s the maintenance of the machines, there’s all the supplies, there’s also the safety factor. There have been mill operators that had serious injuries, mostly to their extremities.
“Until we sold the first think, you’re wondering if it’s going to sell. ‘Cause we launched our Etsy shop and it was 10 months from the day we launched it ‘til the day we made our first sale. You had to have some grit to stay with it,” he says.
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