It's good for you and your home!
- Hard-wearing - you might pay a bit more for it, but it will stand the test of time and will out-live synthetic fibres many times over!
- Hypoallergenic and naturally anti-bacterial
- Warm & cosy for you and your pets!
- Stain & odour resistant, meaning it very rarely needs washing if at all.
- Flame resistant
- Water resistant - wool reacts to the environment around it, holding any moisture without feeling damp, and releasing it when the air allows!
It's biodegradable, no micro-plastics!
By choosing a local, natural fibre you are helping to reduce the mass produced synthetic textiles being shipped across the world, and saying no to the micro-plastics polluting our planet. If you left it on the ground, it would biodegrade over time and become part of the landscape it was once grown in.
It's locally sourced
British wool is hugely underutilised. For many farmers it isn't worth the cost of getting it to the Wool Board so it is regularly discarded. Meanwhile we import thousands of tonnes a year from overseas. Buying British wool supports our farmers, crafters and manufacturers, and vastly reduces carbon footprint. The wool I use is sourced, scoured, spun, woven or felted within Northern England.
It's renewable and ethical
Sheep grow fleece every year, and most have to be sheared due to how they've been bred over hundreds of years. This makes it a renewable fibre. Working with small scale farmers I can see that they care a lot for their animals and treat them very well.
Wool Stores Carbon
Pasture grasses take carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it in the soil, roots and grasses. Sheep utilise this carbon to grow wool. So by choosing local wool you are helping to fight climate change!
We must move away from plastic based fibres and from importing wool from the other side of the world, while our farmers get next to nothing for theirs! We must start to value and utilise British wool, and help farmers to be able to keep rare, native breeds in a way that helps the planet.