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Article: Shear delight. (Entrepreneurs).(Merino wool)(Brief Article)
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- Victoria
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- January 1, 2002
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Some say it's the original golden fleece-- the superfine wool of the Merino sheep. So when Margrit and Albrecht Pichier brought the breed's most sought-after variety to America for the first time and opened a shop, customers came flocking.
A WOMAN FINGERS A DELICATE WOOL SCARF, admiring its cobweblike intricacy. "It reminds me of lace. I've never felt anything so soft," she murmurs. Another tries on a sweater, marveling at the lack of scratchiness. At Sheep's Clothing, the shop that is the retail extension of the Pichlers' thirty-eight-acre Morehouse Farm in Milan, New York, shoppers come for the elegant sweaters, vests, scarves and sundry other hand-knit goods ...