Irish Wool

Irish wool is notoriously very coarse and suited to hard wearing tweeds and aran jumpers. Sheep are farmed to survive our climate, not supply wool for luxury soft knits. It's actually been harder to come by fine Irish wools than you'd think, with the few remaining mills have mostly been processing raw wool right through to their own finished products. But things are changing, some farmers are introducing wool sheep to their flocks and mills are becoming open to processing wool for other small businesses.

Our natural un-dyed white Romney tops are sourced directly from Ballinclea Farm and Mill, Co. Wicklow. Dyed wool tops are their own blend of Blue Faced Leicester and Romney. We also use their Leicester/Romney yarns and stock them in skeins in store. 

Natural dark wools are mixed from a variety of breeds (Jacobs, Texel, Cheviot, Zwartbles) sorted into black and grey at the woollen mills.

Our filling wool for 3D parts is usually scoured native Galway from The Galway Wool Co-op. All the farmers of this breed work together to process and sell their wool as a group.