Pretty Nostalgic – the independent, British lifestyle magazine has selected our new iPad covers for its British Makers Christmas Gift Guide. Needless to say we’re thrilled to bits here at Nude Ewe HQ! Our fun tweed iPad covers are the latest product from our new partnership with London Cloth Company. LCC is based in Hackney [...]
Bedfordshire’s crafters are being called on to get busy making personal gifts for the Olympians and Paralympians coming to Bedford this summer. Over 200 athletes from 14 countries will be hosted here leading up to the Games. Under the Woolsack project every athlete participating in the Games is being offered a cushion hand made and [...]
June’s turning out to be a busy month! Two weeks ago I did a spinning demo at Open Farm Sunday; last Sunday saw me promoting British wool at the East of England Show in Peterborough. For the show had an entire ‘World of Wool’ area, which included a promotional stall for Woolsack. Woolsack is a [...]
‘A fabulous name for a special yarn,’ it said. I confess I breathed a little sigh of relief. For these are the opening words of the first review of one of our yarns. A couple months back Knitting asked for a skein of our Wes DK. They needed ‘something cream and British’, and we were [...]
From the Cotswold Journal Cotswold farmer and BBC Countryfile presenter Adam Henson was in Stow last week as part of his campaign to reinvigorate the British wool industry. Accompanied by spinner Sue Blacker of the Natural Fibre Company in Cornwall, cloth designer Rosemarie Boon of Somerset cloth manufacturers Fox Brothers and Co and Patrick Grant, [...]
From BBC News After years of decline, the British wool industry is fighting back. Exports of wool are on the way up and knitting has become the latest hobby of the rich and famous. Please continue reading HERE.
A while back we entered the Nude Ewe into the Chilterns Conservation Awards. And while we didn’t win, we’re getting kudos in the form of a commendation! According to the letter, the judges were very impressed with our efforts to turn waste fleeces into a marketable commodity to support our local graziers. All of our [...]
Seems a bunch of folks up north have gathered themselves together to promote the great fibre that is British wool. Hooray for them! North Pennines Wool is a group of smallholders and others working to add value to the local wool clip. According to their website they have an ambitious mission, namely to: promote the [...]
I’m waiting for my first kool-aid dyeing experiment to dry, and to be honest I feel a bit guilty about it. The Nude Ewe motto is ‘Pure. British. Wool. Just the way the sheep made it’. And I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen any apple green sheep around Bedfordshire (although if there were any I [...]
On January 26 Prince Charles launched The Wool Project, which aims to increase demand for British wool and raise its value to farmers. He noted in his speech that sheep farmers everywhere are leaving the business, ‘because the price that they get for their wool is below the costs of actually shearing it’. When I [...]
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