Buffalo are double coated. It looks to me like they have a whitish outer coat with a brown undercoat, giving them the creamy beige appearance.
It also appears that the undercoat is a good deal lighter than the standard. I bet the calves appear very white and they darken as they age.
I’ve spun buffalo wool and it is very, very soft, like cashmere or qiviut (yak wool).
The fact that this wool has less pigmentation means that it can be chemically lightened and then dyed in pastels or brights with greater ease and less cost.
Pendleton Blankets are still made in Pendleton, Oregon and they are generally quite pricey. I imagine these will run to several hundred dollars or more as a limited edition.
But they shipped all their clothing manufacturing to Mexico didn't they?
I did take wool and mohair to a mill and have them card and I'd go pick up the rovings. Usually 1 pound each...We had one ewe for the wool as mohair has no memory and you usually have 15-20% wool before making anything with it.
I use to get natural dyes from a catalog I had and would dye the mohair and wool, some rovings were multi-colored and some just one color...it was fun and I sure did enjoy it...also sold the best locks to doll artists for their wigs.. The doll customers brought in lot more money that the spinners....hand sorting about 500 pounds of mohair to get the best locks for dolls cost them the money for time spent. and since I was a producer I sold cheaper than most other sellers.
Always thought getting a couple of cashmere goats would be interesting. some of the farmers started to cross breed the 2 and called them cashgora's...hoping to get more production from the cashmere cross's....others cross bred with other breeds of goats hoping to get color mohair, but pure, un crossed mohair is always white with one mutation called champagne...If they cross bred back enough you could get a goat that looked like an angora but had color. Most were not successful. but there is fun in the trying....