And their idea was that they knew there were lots of Indians in America and it was cold. And they thought, we could sell our nice woolen cloth to Indians. They will need blankets.
Thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed. Neither shall a garment of diverse things, as of linen and woolen , come upon thee-- Leviticus 19, 19. Phil couldn't get past the first bit.
And business was terrible. England had one major product, which was wool-- raw wool and woolen cloth. And their major market was continental Europe.
Melbourne, Latvia, Germany. We're just starting the process now of doing it in Abu Dhabi in the Middle East. And hundreds and thousands of people get involved in this project, and produce vast woolen reefs of their own, in the process learning about ecological devastation and mathematics.
So my research tells the story of inventors, who helped to shape the landscape in which women could move in new ways independently, unchaperoned in public space, who embraced a plethora of new technologies, such as the bicycle, the sewing machine, new waterproof and woolen fabrics, and a range of new media, and who pushed at the parameters of established forms of gendered citizenship.
We just had a song called "Surfing," and we were these Pendleton shirts. Pendleton Mills, down in Oregon, and they had the flaps and the plaid, woolen , and you'd wear it over a t-shirt to keep warm as the sun goes down and stuff at the beach.
But the second thing that's much more important today in terms of every brand we work with, and something that we had to pivot our original idea around. We really thought we just be a liquidator initially of desirable, desirable product that given the seasonal construct of fashion they're already about to sell fall. And are we thinking about buying fall woolen products right now? No, were thinking about buying summer but that's a season old and that's what we're selling. We thought that would be our business opportunity is just
down Glendale Boulevard and what we know as Glendale Boulevard now. And when it got down there, there's a 78 foot drop, so they built a mill. They built like a big waterwheel and they built a mill. That was the very first industrial, first factory in the city of Los Angeles, was this Woolen mill that they created in making Echo Park Reservoir. This is also just a, I'm gonna just touch on this-this is an important concept. Again, there's those 35 acre lots and there's the river running through there. The reason I threw this in