Wool in summer sounds wrong until you have lived in it. We were taught to think of wool as the fabric you reach for when the snow shows up and...
Wool in summer sounds wrong until you have lived in it. We were taught to think of wool as the fabric you reach for when the snow shows up and...
Before machines, before factories, before spinning mills, there was waulking. Waulking is a traditional Scottish and Gaelic wool-finishing process. A group of women would gather around a long table with...
Before machines, before factories, before spinning mills, there was waulking. Waulking is a traditional Scottish and Gaelic wool-finishing process. A group of women would gather around a long table with...
Cloth diapering was always the plan. From the beginning, before there was even a baby, I knew disposables weren't going to work for me. The cost was one part of...
Cloth diapering was always the plan. From the beginning, before there was even a baby, I knew disposables weren't going to work for me. The cost was one part of...
Every new wool person asks the same thing eventually. "But what if I shrink it?"
Every new wool person asks the same thing eventually. "But what if I shrink it?"
Wool fiber is hollow. Actually hollow. There's a canal running through each individual strand that traps air, and trapped air is what insulates. It's the same principle as a down...
Wool fiber is hollow. Actually hollow. There's a canal running through each individual strand that traps air, and trapped air is what insulates. It's the same principle as a down...
People ask me this a lot. They've heard wool is itchy (that's a different conversation) and they assume something that holds moisture must hold smell too. It doesn't. In fact,...
People ask me this a lot. They've heard wool is itchy (that's a different conversation) and they assume something that holds moisture must hold smell too. It doesn't. In fact,...
Sheep make it. We use it. And it's one of the more underappreciated things in the natural world.
Sheep make it. We use it. And it's one of the more underappreciated things in the natural world.
