Jacqui, their wool still has to come from Australia so their products still rack up a fair few miles if that is your concern.
actually tim, your wrong. Finisterre has re-kindled a breeding programme here in the uk of a specific merino sheep that has extrafine wool. They financed the land and the breeding programme and pay a lovely woman to run it for them. They are one of the companies I am looking at for speaking to young designers at PRET2011.
Their goal is to be completely accountable for their production and get it all inside the EU - with a veiw to making it all UK I believe.
actually tim, your wrong. Finisterre has re-kindled a breeding programme here in the uk of a specific merino sheep that has extrafine wool. They financed the land and the breeding programme and pay a lovely woman to run it for them. They are one of the companies I am looking at for speaking to young designers at PRET2011.
Their goal is to be completely accountable for their production and get it all inside the EU - with a veiw to making it all UK I believe.