Industry: Manufacturing
Location: Los Ojos, New Mexico
Number of employees: 23
Became employee owned: 1983
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- Southwest Contemporary – New Mexico Women: Maria Varela (2019)
- New Mexico Mercury – Friday Voyage: Tierra Wools (2014)
- New Mexico Magazine – Dyed in the Wool (2013)
- The Journal – History eyes miracle in Los Ojos (2011)
- Ponderings Over the Pond – Fibers of the Earth (Tierra Wools) (2010)
- Fisher – Reclaiming Querencia: The Quest for Culturally Appropriate, Environmentally Sustainable Economic Development in Northern New Mexico (2008)
- Ruiz – From Out of the Shadows” Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America (2008)
- NEDLC – Entrepreneurial Opportunities For Women In The Handmade Craft Industry (2006)
- Pastoral Theology from a Global Perspective: Green Pastures (2005)
- Ross – Making a Living in the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Basin (2000)
- Los Angeles Times – Weavers’ success tests the cultural fabric : They traded welfare for wool, and a brighter future–but one laced with uncertainties (1997)
- High Country News – In the heart of the New West, the sheep win one (1995)
- Ochoa – Tierra Wools: Looking for Home in the Homeland (1992)
- Thomas – Profiles in Rural Economic Development: A Guidebook of Selected Successful Rural Area Initiatives (1988)
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