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2. The best merino wool base layers

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   While there doesn't seem to be a universally accepted guide to GSM (what is lightweight to some might be deemed mid-weight to others), a merino wool base layer around the 170 GSM range generally ...

3. Thinsulate - Wikipedia

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   Thinsulate fibers are about 15 micrometres (0.00059 in) in diameter, [8] which is thinner than the polyester fibers normally used in insulation for clothing such as gloves or winter jackets. Advertising material suggests that Thinsulate is more effective due to the increased density of fibers with decreased size of fibers compared with more ...

4. Smartwool - Wikipedia

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   Merino wool manages moisture, regulates temperature, and resists odors extremely well, making it a popular material for performance apparel. Most wool clothing, including Smartwool's, go through a treatment called Hercosett - a chlorine-based treatment invented in the 1950s by the Wool Board in the UK to make wool more commercial.

5. Merino - Wikipedia

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   Full wool Merino sheep Merino sheep and red goats. Madrid, Spain. The Merino is a breed or group of breeds of domestic sheep, characterised by very fine soft wool.It was established in Spain near the end of the Middle Ages, and was for several centuries kept as a strict Spanish monopoly; exports of the breed were not allowed, and those who tried risked capital punishment.

6. Poncho liner - Wikipedia

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   A poncho liner (often nicknamed a woobie) [1] is a piece of field gear originating in the United States military that can be attached to a standard issue poncho to provide additional warmth, as well as being usable as a blanket, sleeping bag or protective cover.

7. Sea silk - Wikipedia

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   Knitted glove made of sea silk, from Taranto, Italy, probably from the late 19th century Pinna nobilis shell and byssus The extreme fineness of the byssus thread. Sea silk is an extremely fine, rare, and valuable fabric that is made from the long silky filaments or byssus secreted by a gland in the foot of pen shells (in particular Pinna nobilis). [1]