Pendleton

Pendleton Woolen Mills started in 1863 when Thomas Kay, an English weaver, arrived in Oregon and began working the wool trade. By 1909, his grandsons — Clarence, Roy, and Chauncey Bishop — had founded Pendleton Woolen Mills in Pendleton, Oregon, weaving blankets specifically designed for Native American trade. They studied tribal patterns, colors, and symbolism and built blankets that honored those traditions — a move that earned deep trust with Indigenous communities and set the company apart from every other mill in the country.

From there Pendleton expanded into men's wool shirts, women's apparel, and the iconic wool fabrics that became staples of American outdoor and western life. What never changed was the material — virgin wool, sourced domestically, woven on their own looms. They still operate mills in Pendleton, Oregon and Washougal, Washington, making them one of the last vertically integrated woolen mills in America. Every blanket and fabric is woven in-house, start to finish, with a quality control process that hasn't been shortcut in over a century. The weight, hand, and durability of Pendleton wool is immediately recognizable — it's the kind of material that gets passed down.

Pendleton fits the Moon Ridge brand the same way Lucchese does — a family-built American maker that chose one material, mastered it completely, and let the quality speak louder than any campaign. Wool is to Pendleton what leather is to Lucchese and what felt is to Natalie's shaping table. Carrying Pendleton at Moon Ridge isn't about filling a shelf with blankets and flannels — it's about offering customers a product with 160 years of craft behind it, made by people who still own the looms. Same hands, same standards, no shortcuts.