I will preface by saying that I am extremely allergic to wool. It makes me itch, eyes water, throat closes up, etc. I do love cotton blankets and found one at a local store at a price I was not looking to pay although it was very well constructed. I looked on line for a similar thing and found the price was in line. The website I found had some great wool blankets that almost made me wish I was not allergic. I have included a link to the website I found. I have not shopped with them but the stuff looks really high quality and that was the same cotton blanket that I had seen. Good luck with your search! Here is a link that might be useful: Fjorn Wool Blankets

Never put a wool item in the dryer, at any temp, or for any reason. (Only exception would be modern materials treated with special resins.) To do so would be to risk felting the fabric irreprarably. You can try airing, enclosing it w/ baking soda or charcoal. You can try water washing it (very cool water, hand wash, with as little agitation as possible) then putting it dripping wet into a dry washing machine and spininng the water out in a spin cycle with no added water, then drying flat or at least carefully laid over several lines or bars of a dryer. I have to confess that I have one or two antique woolen items that were unfortunately stored with mothballs that I have never been able to get clean of the stink. Despite owning them for many years and trying multiple rounds of trying to remove it. (Naturally they are not stored in between times in more moth balls!) Regarding washing "working" indigenous clothing. I have a few Colombian ruannas (somewhat similar to serapes); one is sheeps wool and the other two are alpaca. They were intended as outer wear for high-altitude cowboys and I (and my Mom before me) have worn them for more than 50 years. I do wash them (in their original intended use they would have gotten wet in rain storms regularly, and indeed during the wet season probably would have stayed dampish for months at a time). I often wear one while working on my farm in spring and summer. I use only slightly warm water, Eucalan detergent, minimal manipulation while wet, machine spin to extract water and hanging over three or four adjacent clothes to dry them. HTH L.

I've a pattern for a felted wool quilt, it's amazing.......but I've never done anything with it yet. The pieces are butt-joined and of course it would be quite heavy and stiff. I also am considering making a felted wool penney rug. The thing about wool quilts is that even the vintage and especially the antique ones are not necessarily coarse and crude. In the civil war days, and before cotton was hard to come by, especially in the north. Wool and flax weren't however. It brought fabric clear down to the home level, if one loomed. In fact civil war uniforms were often made of linsey-woolsy, a combination of linen and wool. It is quite common to see some beautiful antique woolen quilts, especially old Amish ones and in patterns you'd recognise.

I am sorry I can't help with online sheet shopping. I find mine at flea markets and thrift stores. I generally find tons of old vintage from the 50's sheets at flea markets..dirt cheap and passed up because they are sooo nasty looking and smell even worse. I buy only white and 100% long staple cotton, made in the USA. I generally bag them in plastic bags outdoors a week than I soak in a tub of hot water overnight with whatever detergent I grab...than starts the real work LOL...I have a giant soup pot that nicely holds 1 sheet at a time, it needs room..put the sheet in, add cool to slightly warm water to cover well, add a few T of whitening detergent, Tide with Bleach powder or Persil Pearls, turn on high and bring to a boil using a long wooden spoon to push the sheet down once in awhile as it likely will float. After it comes to a rolling boil allow to boil 10 mminutes and shut off, let cool...after cool remove from pot and repeat the process with clean water and more detergent...Last step is a quick wash, no detergent, with warm water...last a long hot sanitizing wash with the whitening detergent along with 3/4 cup of ammonia. Make sure they rinse well. I have great success with this..the nastiest, brownish, stink to the high heavens sheets come out brilliantly white with the freshest scent you could imagine. These are percale and I also have muslin. The percales made in the 50's in the US are some of the finest quality you will find, probably riveling the $$$ ones today. Yes they take time to properly remove 60 years of body oils, but like I said I have more time than $ ...some may say I have more time than brains LOL. But I love crawling into great percales at the end of the day...another thing some may be skittish about what if there's a bug ..the boiling solves that LOL.. and if anyone has ever stayed in a hotel they have slept on used sheets. LOL. I wouldn't try this with a cotton/poly no iron sheet nor a fitted bottom sheet, however fitted bottom sheets wernt around in the 50's.