Why Wool Matters

For designers, brands and manufacturers seeking sustainable material solutions, wool is a natural, durable, technical and circular fibre.

Wool is an incredibly versatile fibre and in many cases outperforms synthetic alternatives.

Currently, the fashion industry is 2.5 trillion dollar industry which produces 20% industrial water waste, 10% carbon emissions and 80% textiles ending up in Landfill

Regeneration

In the present economic model British wool is primarily a by-product of the meat industry. It has insufficient monetary value to encourage and leverage cultural and material change from the current globalised fashion system.

Globally wool is mostly viewed as a commodity without much distinction of type. There is huge potential to add different value chains to British wool by championing individual breed variations in terms of both physical fleece characteristics, and their associations with local heritage, enabling the regeneration of land and rural communities.

Highlighting and nurturing the understanding between wools from individual breeds can aid designers, makers and wool users to heighten garment functionality and aesthetics, and satisfy consumer demand for more authentic, locally traceable garments.

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Breed Specification

  • Bluefaced Leicester

    The Bluefaced Leicester breed are a tall and broad sheep, with a distinctive face and nose shape. Their fleece is soft and lustrous and is used in knitwear, yarns for knitting, and fine cloth
    products.

  • Castlemilk Moorit

    The Castlemilk Moorit breed have long legs and a stumped tail. Ewes have slightly curly horns, whereas the rams have spiral horns. The Castlemilk Moorit breed have a silky brown fleece which is popular with crafts people and hand spinners.

  • Cheviot

    The Cheviot sheep is a versatile hill breed with long legs. Their fleece is white and can be very
    soft depending on flock quality.

  • Teeswater

    The Teeswater sheep breed are a large, hornless breed with a grey face. They have a tuft of wool on top of their head. The Teeswater have a heavy, long fleece with a soft handle. The fleece is silky
    and lustrous.

  • Portland:

    The Portland sheep breed is a small sized sheep, with a tan face and legs. They have a tail and cream coloured horns. The Portland sheep breed have a short and fine fleece. The lambs are born with a red-tinged fleece, which turns lighter as they grow older.
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