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SteP Certified!

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SteP Certified!

We are pleased to announce that our century-old mills in Washougal, WA and Pendleton, OR are certified STeP by OEKO-TEX® (21001295 HOHENSTEIN HTTI). Both mills have been weaving for over 110 years and are continually updated for sustainability and innovation. These mills are the source for our by-the-yard wool fabrics, and crafting supplies like selvage and wooly worms.

STeP by OEKO-TEX® is a certification system for production facilities in the textile industry. Certification assesses production facilities at all processing stages to allow brands to communicate environmental measures. The Pendleton mills were scored in various areas including, chemical management, environmental performance and management, social responsibility, quality management, and health and safety.

This is a milestone on our path to certified sustainability for all our mill products. The process is long and requirements are stringent. Members of our mill teams have worked tirelessly to collect and submit the needed data, and projects have been identified and initiated to make it happen. 

“Pendleton is committed to creating a sustainable product lifecycle. As a vertical operation, the impact we have on the environment is a priority in every process. Certifying the mills for sustainability is a tremendous step in this journey,” explained Rolan Snider, Pendleton’s vice president of textile manufacturing. “The sustainability journey begins with our use of wool as a natural fiber, the long-term relationships with USA wool growers and now continues through the local production in our sustainability-certified mills.”

Our Mills

You can learn more about the process and the path at oeko-tex.com. The Pendleton Woolen Mill located in Washougal, WA is located at 2 Pendleton Way, Washougal, WA 98671 and the Pendleton Woolen Mill located in Pendleton, OR is located at 1307 SE Court Pl, Pendleton, OR 97801. Both mills offer tours year round.

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September Fabric Sale

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25% Off All Fabric!

Logo for Fabric sale - 25% off all fabric, limited to stock on hand

September 6 through 30th:

  • 25% off all Fabrics
  • Daily Specials on Select Table Cuts

We’re Open

We would love to see you at our beautifully refreshed store. Curbside pickup is available.

Pendleton Woolen Mill Store
8500 SE McLoughlin Blvd. Portland, OR 97222
(503) 535-5786 • http://www.woolenmill.store • WoolenMiIIStore@penwool.com

Fabric by the yard on rolls at the Woolen Mill Store.
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September Semi-Annual Fabric Sale

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It’s here!

Logo--Semi-annual sale, Fabric Sale, While supplies last, limited to stock on hand

We have special sales throughout the month.

September 1st through 5th:

  • 25% off Regular Price Fabrics
  • 50% off Clearance Fabrics

September 6 through 30th:

  • 25% off all Fabrics
  • Daily Specials on Select Table Cuts

We’re Open

We would love to see you at our beautifully refreshed store. Curbside pickup is available.

Pendleton Woolen Mill Store
8500 SE McLoughlin Blvd. Portland, OR 97222
(503) 535-5786 • http://www.woolenmill.store • WoolenMiIIStore@penwool.com

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A New Pendleton Store opens in Seattle

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We’re back in Seattle

This is not a fabric/crafting store, it’s a Pendleton store very near the historic Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington. We hope you’ll put it on your list of places to see when you’re up visiting the Puget Sound area. If you live there, please stop in and say hello. We are just two minutes from the Market, up one of Seattle’s famous hills.

This space is larger than our previous Seattle location, and our Pendleton plaids and patterns look beautiful with all the brick, wood, and vintage charm.

An interior shot of Seattle Pendleton store, showing the company timeline.

The photo above shows a company history timeline. We’re always excited to share the Pendleton story, and here’s a little clip of us installing displays about our history and community connections.

We carry it all!

The store offers a full selection of Pendleton’s home goods, apparel, and accessories. It’s a wonderful place for inspiration.

Another interior shot showing Pendleton apparel on display on mannequin, hung on wall fixutures, folded on shelves and table.
A corner with bold Pendleton Mill graphics, with woven goods in the foreground

And you won’t want to miss our Pendleton shirt wall, right behind the cash wrap.

A display wall made of Pendleton plaid wool shirts.

We originally created a similar wall for a trade show, and attendees loved it. We’ve been excited to adapt the idea for a retail store. Here’s a video of the construction.

Where to find us

We are located on the first floor of Seattle’s A.E. Doyle Building. According to the Viaduct History website, “The A. E. Doyle Building is one of the most elegant reminders of Seattle’s early retail corridor along 2nd Avenue. It opened in 1920 as the J. S. Graham Store not long after Frederick and Nelson moved north to Pine Street. This is the only Seattle example of the work of one of Portland’s most prominent architect, A. E Doyle. The large windows set in tall arched bays clad with terra cotta reflect the Italian Renaissance style.”

The front exterior of the Seattle Pendleton store on Pine Street in Seattle Washington.

Remember, we are just a two minute walk from Pike Place Market at 117 Pine St, Seattle, WA 98101

Sidewalk in front of the Seattle Pendleton store with people in motion walking past.

We look forward to seeing you soon.

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August Fabric Clearance

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August Specials

We have Apparel Seconds/Samples! Most items priced $19.99-$39.99

Selection Going Fast!

Logo Graphic for the sale, with the words "End of Season Fabric CLearance through August 31st while supplies last"

It’s time for a little housekeeping, and we are having a clearance sale on select Pendleton fabrics, including:

  • Up to 50% off the last marked price on sale fabrics and table cuts
  • Mill waste products, 10 pound bags for $10.00 each

If you’re sewing or crafting for Christmas, it’s a great time to shop for materials, along with all the other wonderful things you’ll find at the Woolen Mill Store.

If you have a question about what’s included and what’s on hand, please visit us or give us a call. We are happy to help!

We’re Open

We would love to see you at our beautifully refreshed store. Curbside pickup is available.

Pendleton Woolen Mill Store
8500 SE McLoughlin Blvd. Portland, OR 97222
(503) 535-5786 • http://www.woolenmill.store • WoolenMiIIStore@penwool.com

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Pendleton Mill Tours are Back

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We’re back, and ready to show you around.

Pendleton is excited to announce that tours of our Washougal, Washington and Pendleton, Oregon mills are now open! If you’ve ever wanted to watch our beautiful fabrics being woven, you can at our two USA mills. These tours showcase the vertical operation that brings Pendleton’s iconic wool blankets and fabrics to life.

A Little PWM History

The Pendleton mill was originally built in 1893, and has been operating as Pendleton Woolen Mills since 1909. That is the year when Fanny Kay Bishop realized what an opportunity the idled facility held, and urged her three sons to buy and revive it. The Bishop Brothers restored and improved operations with the support of the Pendleton community.

The Pendleton mill has always specialized in traditional wool bed blankets. These are woven on jacquard looms to give our blankets curvilinear designs that are often different on front and back, for a reversible option. The company acquired the Washougal mill in 1912 to expand its range of fabrics, with specialized looms for plaids, herringbones, stripes, tweeds…all the weaves found in clothing textiles and plaid blankets.

Today’s Mills

In the early 1900s, the Pendleton mills were two of over 1,000 woolen mills operating in America’s 46 states. Today, they are two of the remaining four woolen mills in the United States. Both mills are continually updated for sustainability and innovation. Each mill offers a unique view into Pendleton craftsmanship.

The mill tour in Washougal, Washington walks guests through every step in the making of Pendleton wool blankets and fabric. This includes:

 –            Raw wool: sourced from local and global wool ranchers

–             Dyeing: state-of-the-art dye color lab to ensure color control and matching

–             Wool carding and spinning: turning wool into yarn

–             Weaving on dobby looms: creates Pendleton’s famous plaids, stripes and solids

–             Finishing touches: washing, hand inspection and boxing

The mill tour in Pendleton, Oregon offers guests an inside look into:

–             Jacquard looms: state-of-the-art two-story looms weaving graphic and pictorial designs

–             Wool spinning: turning wool into yarn

Come see us soon!

The Washougal Mill is located at 2 Pendleton Way, Washougal, Washington 98671. Tours are offered at the Washougal Mill on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 11a.m. and 1p.m.

The Pendleton Mill is located at 1307 SE Court Place, Pendleton, Oregon 97801. Tours are offered at the Pendleton Mill Monday through Friday at 11a.m. and 3p.m.

And if you can’t join us in person, here is a little video mill tour for you: A Morning at the Washougal Mill.

Logo for Pendleton Woolen Mills, "Born in Oregon"
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July Sales!

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4th of July Savings

25% off all regular priced crat supplies and table cuts sign.

We are offering some great savings throughout the weekend, AND the month of July. Our trucks arrive weekly, so stock is ever-changing.

25% all regular-priced craft supplies! And you know how many craft supplies we carry.

25% off the last marked price of all table cuts!

We are open on July 4th, 11am through 4pm.

We’re Open

We would love to see you at our beautifully refreshed store. Curbside pickup is available.

Pendleton Woolen Mill Store
8500 SE McLoughlin Blvd. Portland, OR 97222
(503) 535-5786 • http://www.woolenmill.store • WoolenMiIIStore@penwool.com

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A New Store You’ll Want to See!

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Cutting the Ribbon

Store entrance.

Those of you who have been shopping with us know that our Woolen Mill Store is a unique location among Pendleton’s 30+ stores. Well, we are here to tell you about another unique store you’ll want to see in Oregon.

Ribbon cutting at the WIllamette Heritage Center Pendleton store.

This month, we were excited to cut the ribbon and celebrate the opening of a Pendleton store at the Willamette Heritage Center in Salem, Oregon–a place some of you know as home to the Sheep to Shawl fiber festival each spring.

This store marks the return of descendants of English Master Weaver Thomas Kay to the site of his namesake mill. In 1863, when Kay came to Oregon, he played a strong role in establishing the state’s wool trade and eventually opened his own mill in 1890. Thomas Kay’s grandsons, Clarence, Roy, and Chauncey Bishop, went on to open Pendleton Woolen Mills in 1909, and the rest is, well, history!

What You’ll Find

The store interior

The new WHC store is small but mighty. In a charmingly industrial space, it features goods from Pendleton’s two USA woolen mills: table cut fabric and remnants, with a sewing and felting craft focus.

Fabric and crafts at the Pendleton store at the Willamette Heritage Center
Fabric and crafts at the Pendleton store at the Willamette Heritage Center

Shoppers will also find a curated assortment of Pendleton’s iconic apparel, home, gifts, and accessories.

More interior shots
Interior with apparel and gift items

Throughout the store, informative displays and graphics tell the story of Oregon’s wool industry, alongside the history of Salem, Oregon’s state capitol.

Hallway showing mill photography

Other displays show our historic (but state-of-the-Art!) mills over the years, and explain our philanthropic partnerships, and key elements of our company’s growth from our deep Oregon roots.

Timeline and histor panels

The Willamette Heritage Center

Along with shopping and special events, visitors to the Willamette Heritage Center can take a self-guided tour of the Thomas Kay mill, the place where Pendleton’s weaving legacy began. And speaking of the Center, there is so much more to see here.

The Willamette Heritage Center connects generations by preserving and interpreting Mid-Willamette Valley history. The fourteen historic structures on site house permanent and changing exhibits, a research library and archive, a textile learning center, and rentable event spaces. The five-acre campus is also home to retail shops, art galleries, cooperative artist studios, and offices for our partner organizations. (source)

Since 1964, the Mission Mill Museum Association (now the Willamette Heritage Center) has worked on the restoration and interpretation of the Thomas Kay Woolen Mill. Learn more about the Willamette Heritage Center here: https://www.willametteheritage.org/

We are excited for this new store, with Pendleton returning to where we began.

Pendleton "Born in Oregon" logo
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25% Off Your Favorite Apparel Fabrics

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Seven plaid wool Pendleton shirts hanging on pegs in front of a wooden wall.
Flannels pictured are not necessarily in stock, see our “fabrics” page for selection

Enjoy a 25% discount on select fabrics, including:

*Worsteds

*Umatilla flannels

Sewing supplies, including:

*50+ new ribbons

*new sewing books

*newly restocked patterns

Call with questions or phone orders, or visit us soon for the best selection. Sale valid through May 31, 2022, or while supplies last, and limited to stock on hand.

We’re Open

We would love to see you at our beautifully refreshed store. Curbside pickup is available.

Pendleton Woolen Mill Store
8500 SE McLoughlin Blvd. Portland, OR 97222
(503) 535-5786 • http://www.woolenmill.store • WoolenMiIIStore@penwool.com

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Our Beautiful Banner & a VIDEO

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Fabric Art is ART

When you visit our store, you’ll see a one-of-a-kind banner celebrating the materials and craft that is the heart of the Woolen Mill Store.

The cashwrap at the pendleton Woolen Mill Store with a veiw of a large fabric banner showing Mt. Hood.

Measuring 8′ x 12′, the banner was designed and created by Pendleton’s Marketing team. The design is based on the Mt Hood graphic on a vintage shirt box, which is also used in our current Born in Oregon logo.

How We Did It – and there’s a video!

The pattern was enlarged onto a full-sized paper pattern using a slide projector.

A projector, projected image of Mt. Hood

This pattern was cut apart and used to trace the shape of the mountain and the shoreline.

The paper pattern and a selection of materials used for the banner

The sky and lake shape are made from the same fabric – the face and reverse of a wool denim. The 150+ stylized trees were cut from a wide range of plaids, stripes, jacquards, and solid fabric, including our Sunbrella outdoor fabrics.

The richly colored fabrics, all in shades of blue, were appliqued together with a fusible bonding, and then machine quilted with a layer of wool batting and a solid cotton backing fabric. This secured all the fabric layers and created a diamond patterned stitch design over the entire surface. The quilting was done by Nancy at Just Quilting in Portland. You can find her at @justquilting on Instagram.

Once quilted, the layers of needle felted trees and the logo were added on top, and the banner was bound on all sides in felt by store staff. The logo was created using 3-D logo letters wrapped in wool yarn and sewn to the sky area of the banner. Shading on the lake is created with airbrushed fabric paint, the only element not sold at the Woolen Mill Store. The larger trees at the bottom, are created by freehand needle felting.

As Promised…the Video

Here’s a behind-the-scenes movie of the process.

This is a celebration of hand crafting, and a fitting salute to our quality materials and the work that our customers create. Here’s a closer view, and we hope you’ll visit us to see it in person soon.