Increased demand for organic wool

Some people believe that organic products are just a fad and offer little or nothing more than conventional goods.

The facts tell a different story. Although the recession has changed things, supermarkets have been devoting increasing amounts of space to organic produce in recent years, and we are finding that customers are becoming increasingly interested in products made from organic wool.

Farmers have a lot to do before they can produce fleece that is genuinely organic and to maintain organic status we have to separate their wool from the rest and specially purge all the machines before our specialist production runs.

When we process wool, we cannot accept it as organic unless it complies with our Soil Association requirements. Contact us to discuss equivalents. Please note that this is already agreed for Organic Farmers and Growers and Demeter which has an international standard covering 43 countries.

An accreditation certificate means that there is an audit trail of evidence, from the animals themselves to the storage, transport, processing and finishing.

We are inspected regularly for our accreditation (License Number X9061) by the Soil Association for organic production as are the farmers who supply the fleece.

In order to have their fibre processed organically, customers must send it to us in clearly-marked packaging (which we can supply) and be able to produce copies of their current certificate. They also have to sign our compliance statement.