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Article: RANKS OF THE FINEST CONTINUE TO GROW; SUPER 200S, ESCORIAL WOOL AND 22 CARAT GOLD THREADS ENTER THE LUXURY FABRICS MARKET.
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- Daily News Record
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- August 30, 1999
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NEW YORK -- Feeling that the best is none too good, and in fact could be better, there are those companies in the men's fine apparel business that are forever searching for a more exclusive, more luxurious, more expensive fabric to make their garment even more unique.
And those fiber and fabric companies that supply them with the cloth for those multi-thousand dollar suits are just as busy finding and developing new, finer, more exclusive fabrics for them.
Escorial is one of these fibers, carefully sheared from tiny New Zealand sheep that are so exclusive they are numbered. The flock is about 5000 now, but was much smaller once, according to Peter ...