Wool from Happy Devon Sheep

The Process – Supporting the British Wool Industry

By purchasing our wool you are helping support ten different industries – and all of them are British:

1. The Farmer – The Langabeer flock of naturally coloured sheep are raised to the best welfare standards grazing pastures on the edge of Dartmoor National Park.

2. The Shearer – who clips our flock every year to harvest their fantastic fleeces.

3. The Scouring Plants – the first in Dewsbury, Yorkshire – where the raw fleeces are washed (to remove all the dirt and debris), dried and baled ready for the next process.  This plant is modern with a full effluent treatment so no harmful chemicals are released into the environment and ‘shoddy’ is recycled into slug repellents and slow-release fertilizer.

4. The Spinner – who cards, spins and plies the clean wool into yarn using traditional machinery at a World Heritage Centre Mill. All our wool is naturally coloured and produced without the use of harmful chemical dyes.

5. The Baller – the scoured and softened knitting yarn continues to another company in Yorkshire to be wound into balls ready for labelling.

6. The Weaver – wool destined for weaving is transported to Drove Weaving in Langholm, Dumfries where it is made into beautiful throws.

7. The Finishers – in Galashiels who wash, tease and brush our woven throws.

8. The labelling companies – one in Wales who make our woven throw labels, another in Galashiels who sews them on.

9. The Transport Companies – who drive our wool to the various process destinations.

10. The Printer – all our yarn labels are produced by Devon printers.

And most of all you are supporting the Flock – who are raised for wool or breeding so by purchasing my woollen products you are safeguarding their future.