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 [...]
That’s right: we’ve now got laceweight yarn in stock! Beautiful, soft and with a gentle lustre, this worsted-spun Wensleydale has just arrived. The wool comes from a Wensleydale flock on the Bedfordshire/Buckinghamshire border. The sheep graze in an old, traditionally managed Damson orchard. The Damson is traditional to this area and while large orchards once [...]
This is Nancy. She’s our cute-as-a-button logo, which you can now make and customise with our fabulous new pattern. Nancy was created exclusively for the Nude Ewe by blogger and Red Heart Yarns designer Nancy Anderson, aka ‘Miss Julep’. And since this woolly little girl is so perfectly cheeky we just had to name the pattern [...]
If you look at our website you’ll notice we don’t actually offer any Norfolk Horn yarn. Never fear: we soon will! This small privately owned flock of about 20 ewes is currently growing our next Nude Ewe offering. The Norfolk is an ancient East Anglian breed, and local images of white, horned sheep date back [...]
When we started The Nude Ewe, we needed a flock of sheep to ‘experiment’ on: a flock whose owner wouldn’t be upset if the project failed and we weren’t able to give them a return on the fleeces. Enter the Wildlife Trust, or more specifically the Bedfordshire office of the Trust which covers the three [...]
We were horrified to read the article below. In recent years sheep have occasionally been found butchered in fields, and it’s now happened to one of our graziers. The flock affected is based at Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve in Lewknor, Oxfordshire. These Beulah Speckled Face sheep graze the reserve’s chalk grasslands, and produce our [...]
From Bedfordshire on Sunday When Heather Webb sees a flock of sheep, she has visions of fleeces and yarns of wool. That’s because she’s spent the last three years building up a project that ploughs the profits from sheep shearing back into the environment. Please continue reading HERE.
After a great deal of number crunching and soul searching we have come to the conclusion that we must raise our wool and kit prices. The new prices will take effect on January 1, 2012. The Nude Ewe returns all profits from wool sales back to the graziers from whom we obtain our fleeces. Their [...]
From the Telegraph Spanish shepherds led flocks of sheep through the streets of central Madrid on Sunday in defence of ancient grazing, migration and droving rights threatened by urban sprawl. Please continue reading HERE.
We introduced ‘Waves’ a short while ago in our ‘Wes’ Wensleydale wool. Wes has a natural lustre that designer Eline Oftedal said made it look like pearls. And while we love the sheen and drape of our best-seller we thought it was time to try out Waves in our other yarns. So here it is: [...]
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