The word "woollen" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to fabrics or items made from wool, such as sweaters, socks, and blankets. For example, "She bought a woollen scarf to keep her warm during the winter months."
In market stalls beside them, women huddle together whispering to each other and knitting alpaca woollen hats and socks to sell to tourists.
Sampi is dressed as if for winter, her hands in woollen gloves, a scarf draped around her neck, wearing a thick jumper.
He entered No 10 wearing the straw boater of jaunty comical arrogance; he recently tried the itchy woollen hat of humble public servitude; and now he wanders between micro-managed photo-opportunities – a milk-guzzling lamb, a paint-smeared child – without any hat at all, bareheaded in the storms.
One young monk, dressed in a woollen tank top, put on a mask of a young woman and struck a coquettish pose.
Diane Simpson, the sales director for AW Hainsworth, a wool manufacturer which normally specialises in covers for snooker tables, believes that their "Natural Legacy" woollen coffins sell because thinking of a loved one cocooned in fleece brings more comfort to the families of the deceased than the fact that the coffins are biodegradable.The eco-funeral market is expanding in other directions too.
Towards the end of the 19th century Gustave Jaeger, a German doctor, got busy telling women that besides wearing knitted woollen slips and petticoats they would benefit greatly from wearing knitted nightclothes and something called the "combination" (an all-in-one underwear ensemble).
Production of the woollen fabrics and clothing that made the region's name has drifted away to cheaper countries.
Angora goats are raised for mohair, and there is a small cotton- and woollen-weaving industry.
The global market for woollens has halved since the mid-1990s.
Sinking together Call options Resilient wreckers Someone to watch over them Award: Ludwig Siegele Reprints Related items The recession hits Fininvest: RelegatedJun 25th 2009A cluster for higher-quality woollens, centred on Biella in the north-west, is also struggling, as are the textile firms of Varese and the silk producers of Como.
In Como, about 20 miles (32km) to the north-east, a cluster of silk firms is ailing, and so is a woollens cluster around Biella, 50 miles to the west, victims like Castellanza of low-cost competition.Michael Porter, a guru on clusters at Harvard Business School, has said they help productivity, boost innovation and encourage new firms.
