POLARIS

Around 130 years ago, a revolutionary design in wool wear was born in the midlands of England. There, at the time one of the world’s wool clothing manufacturing powerhouses (eventually supplanted by the industrial revolution boom seen in the late 19th century in the United States), knitters successfully created a “waffle knit” fabric designed to be at one moment breathable and the next highly heat retaining. How? More on that in just a moment. For the next century, wool layer fanatics became accustomed to this waffle knit design, which emerged as a timeless standard. And then, just like that, they fell out a favor to either synthetics or single-ply Merino Wool layer design. We asked ourselves here at Duckworth: “Why?” When you consider why the dimpled waffle-knit design was so popular in the first place - trapping air in those very same pockets when layered underneath another piece of fabric or freely allowing the passage of cool air when worn alone - why would anyone abandon wanting this useful tool in their arsenal? So we decided to pump fresh life into the concept, eventually developing Polaris: an American made Merino Wool base layer line infused with our premium Montana fleece and some modern tech upgrades. Beyond versatile and with such an understand performance capacity, we call the 175 grams per square meter Polaris the “Survival Kit Baselayer,” a name that speaks for itself. Available in crews, hoodies and henley.