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Estonian Native Sheep
The mixed flock of Joel and Julika’s beautiful flock of sheep at Jaani Talu, Estonia For Wovember Words today we are in Estonia! When team Wovember member Felix traveled there in 2012 for a residency,...
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Wool Labelling: Deciphering EU Legislation
This evening we’re thrilled to bring you a post by John Arbon who runs a wool mill in North Devon. As well as producing textile products – socks, fibres, hand-knitting yarns – John Arbon creates custom...
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The Finnsheep of Finland
‘These sheep, owned by the government of Finland, keep the meadows from turning to thickets’ photo found in Wiki Commons and attributable to Hansenit Continuing our EU tour, today we are in Finland...
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The Journey of Wool Yarn #1
During Wovember we always try to celebrate wool from the field to the finished object and to introduce you to some of the people involved in all aspects of wool work through that process. This year we...
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Sue Blacker on Shearing Wool
We are always honoured and delighted to include articles from honorary Team Wovember member, Sue Blacker. This year we asked if we may re-publish a recent blog post that Sue wrote at her own blog, part...
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Wovember words: Breed swatch-along – the feel of the ball of wool
Louise is here with some fabulously descriptive words from the Breed swatch-along. I am just loving the Breed Swatch-along and really enjoying watching how everyone taking part is exploring wool is a...
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Clara Parkes on Describing Wool
Earlier today we heard some of the words that participants in the KnitBritish Breed Swatch KAL have found for describing wool from different sheep breeds. This evening we continue that theme in an...
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Wovember Words: KnitLocal
Today’s WOVEMBER WORDS post was written by one of our long term WOVEMBER supporters, Nadine Haarich, who writes about her own discovery of local wool. Nadine lives in Germany and was inspired to...
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Tarndwarncoort: birthplace of the Polwarth
We are sure you will agree that today’s posts have given a lot of food for thought. We have one final bonus post tonight from natural dyer and knitter Julia Billings, AKA Woollenflower. This summer...
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Between Producers and Consumers of WOOL…
Today we wanted to try something out here on the WOVEMBER blog and share a conversation between a Producer of Yarn (Jane Dryden of Home Farm Wensleydales) and a Consumer of Yarn (me, Felix, TEAM...
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