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'The Wool Library: Designing for breed - celebrating the diversity of British sheep breeds'
Learn more about how The Wool Library connects consumers and designers with fully traceable breed specific yarns, commercial knitwear prototyping and end products such as hand knitting yarns, tweeds and throws. Maria and Zoe began working together to combine our independent knowledge of different yet overlapping sectors of British regenerative farming & native breeds (with life-long farmer John Atkinson @dodgson_wood) and academic sheep breed wool research for knitwear and making (@thewoolist); with the key focus of empowering and re-valuing all involved from raw materials through to end users.
Highlighting the provenance, narrative and vast array of British sheep breed characteristics by creating and experimenting with a range of yarns that are carefully sourced directly from our farmer friends in collaboration with British Wool’s traceability programme. We nurture lasting relationships with farmers, mills and manufacturers that have similar ethical ethos'. By showcasing the natural diversity and potential for the different tactile qualities of sheep breeds across the UK we can show the power of utilising a naturally abundant resource on our doorstep.
'The Wool Library: Designing for breed - celebrating the diversity of British sheep breeds'
Learn more about how The Wool Library connects consumers and designers with fully traceable breed specific yarns, commercial knitwear prototyping and end products such as hand knitting yarns, tweeds and throws. Maria and Zoe began working together to combine our independent knowledge of different yet overlapping sectors of British regenerative farming & native breeds (with life-long farmer John Atkinson @dodgson_wood) and academic sheep breed wool research for knitwear and making (@thewoolist); with the key focus of empowering and re-valuing all involved from raw materials through to end users.
Highlighting the provenance, narrative and vast array of British sheep breed characteristics by creating and experimenting with a range of yarns that are carefully sourced directly from our farmer friends in collaboration with British Wool’s traceability programme. We nurture lasting relationships with farmers, mills and manufacturers that have similar ethical ethos'. By showcasing the natural diversity and potential for the different tactile qualities of sheep breeds across the UK we can show the power of utilising a naturally abundant resource on our doorstep.