Everyone Should Have Something In Their Closet From The Camelid Family, Right? Welcome to May 3, 2023 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate the big sky state and fancy fabric. Today we’re celebrating Big Skies, Yellowstone, Glaciers and grizzlies. It's National Montana Day and we’re celebrating the Treasure State, from Missoula to Miles City and everywhere in between. Montana became our 41st state on November 8, 1889. Montana has an average of only 7.5 people per square mile, the national average is 75! It’s the only state that has only one time zone (Mountain time!) and the largest snowflake ever was recorded in Fort Keogh with a diameter of 15 inches! Only California has more hiking trails and Montana has more than 100 mountain ranges in its western half. And finally, only one gem from North America is included in England’s Crown Jewels, the Montana Yogo Sapphire. Take a road trip across the Big Sky State on National Montana Day! If you are into luxury items then be sure to add something made of vicuña wool to your list of “must haves.” Companies that manufacture cashmere and merino wool goods know this specialty textile as the world’s most expensive fabric. It comes from the vicuña, an animal in the camelid family that lives in the Andes mountains. Vicuña are wild and more difficult to catch than their alpaca and llama cousins. Their wool can only be shorn every two to three years, but being as it is exceptionally fine, soft and warm, vicuña wool is worth the wait. The price on the other hand may give most people pause, as a yard of this wool starts at $3,000 and can cost up to $4,300 for adding a gold thread. On National Textiles Day celebrate something in your price range with a wide variety of choices. I’m Anna Devere and I’m Marlo Anderson. Thanks for joining us as we Celebrate Every Day.
