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Web Links

Although there are various links mentioned throughout the site, they are all repeated here and split into four categories for convenience and to save you scrolling down a long list.

Those where the text is in a different, purple colour are reciprocal links. This means that each site contains links to the other. These are either our customers, companies we recommend, companies we work with or those whose products we use.

Some of our customers are also featured in our Case Studies. Various breed societies are mentioned in our Meet the Animals pages.

Services

Alpaca Seller

  • Services

All about alpacas: stud services, auctions and the place where those wanting to sell animals are matched with buyers

Cowslip Workshops

  • Services

The place to go for a wide range of craft workshops, from quilting to applique and willow hurdling which are held next to an organic farm near Launceston

Diamond Fibres

  • Services

This is the name of the small-scale worsted spinners based at Horsham in East Sussex

Duchy Square

  • Services

This craft centre at Princetown in Devon is open every day and supports local artists. It is financed by the Duchy of Cornwall, the local county council, the South West Regional Development Agency and Government Office South West

Eco Cornwall

  • Services

This site attempts to draw together all that is ethically and environmentally focussed in Cornwall, a county which is gradually earning a reputation as a leader in green technology

Eco Street

  • Services

This is an independent green blog and web directory keen to pass on what it knows. It says going green need not be complicated and to make things more accessible, it breaks complex issues into smaller pieces

EKO Sense

  • Services

A Cornish clothing label which promotes a healthy lifestyle, combining it with sustainable fashion using new ecological fibres to produce its range

Finance Cornwall

  • Services

A £20 million venture investment fund for small and medium-sized companies that has backed nearly 200 companies since its formation in 2002, including The Natural Fibre Company

Gofarmer

  • Services

An on-line market place for farmers, smallholders and rural businesses

Jakoti Hand Shears

  • Services

Well balanced shears made in Greece, but in the Japanese style. Now available in the UK. Contact Claire Tinker on 01458 850 066

Jane Deane

  • Services

Textile designer and teacher working with fibre, yarn and dyes. She also keeps silkworms whose discarded cocoons provide a limited amount of silk

Knitweave

  • Services

Cornwall-based Jo McIntosh is involved with weaving, felt making, beading, knitting, fabric dyeing and space-dyed threads. She describes herself as a textile artist

Living Ethically

  • Services

An organic, ecological and ethical shopping and information portal which includes regular features, articles, product reviews and exclusive special offers. The site, which has a mass of links to UK companies, aims to make ethical shopping easy

Sawdays Special Places

  • Services

Alastair Sawday knows all about special places to stay, he checks them out himself and looks particularly at those that try to reduce their environmental impact, both in the UK and worldwide. He puts them into his own series of books and also publishes newsletters. We heard about him from one of our customers, Marcus Lampard of Mandinam in Wales, who operates one of the featured farm B&Bs

Sheep Keep

  • Services

A free database designed to bring together farmers looking for grazing with those with land which might be suitable

Specialist Spinning

  • Services

This is Hagger's Mill, the alpaca specialist spinners in Oxfordshire who use traditional woollen spinning machinery

Tag-ie

  • Services

The hand-held electronic tag identification reader that comes with software that deals with animal type, weights, scan results, lambing and medication. Ideal of flocks up of to 3,000

Our Customers and Partners

Greengate

  • Our Customers and Partners

A Derbyshire-based flock of Lincoln Longwools on seven acres at Slaley offering half and one-day courses on spinning and dyeing 

Popham Alpacas

  • Our Customers and Partners

Gary and Felicia Sanders have come a long since they started a breeding alpacas with three animals and are now up to 90 some of which are up for sale from their farm which is just 15 minutes from Plymouth. They also sell their yarns which we spin for them

The Wool Company

  • Our Customers and Partners

If you're looking for bedding and socks, don't forget Harry and Sarah Mayman's Cornwall-based partnership. Now a Natural Fibre Company stockist

West Yeo Farm

  • Our Customers and Partners

This link is to Kate Palmer and the textile side of this organic farm based in Witheridge near Tiverton in Devon

Wool and Willow Gallery

  • Our Customers and Partners

This site for the Hay-on-Wye-based co-operative of wool producers, spinners, knitters, felt workers, weavers and dyers will lead you to other possible suppliers in Wales

 
Information

Give Fleece a Chance

  • Information

Knitting designer and teacher Claire Crompton has set up this site which includes a downloadable pattern and a directory of all things woolly

Green Mountain Spinnery

  • Information

A US company that has been designing and producing classic and contemporary yarns with New England fleeces in Vermont for 25 years

Saving Rare Breeds

  • Information

This registered charity has been established to help preserve endangered livestock, not just sheep, but also poultry, cattle, horses and pigs. It works closely with conservation groups, including the Rare Breeds Survival Trust, and aims to increase the numbers of those species in the endangered lists

Sheer Sheep

  • Information

This mobile demonstraton of sheep sheering is packed into a 45 ft articulated truck and can be booked for agricultural shows, school visits and childrens' parties. Contact them by telephone on 01234 841 954 or 07989 450 307, or by emailing: mail@sheersheep.co.uk

Wikipedia

  • Information

This link takes you to the pages about different fibres

Trade Associations

Association of Guilds of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers

  • Trade Associations

Trade association dedicated to the preservation and improvement of craftsmanship

British Alpaca Society

  • Trade Associations

Dedicated to the welfare of alpacas and the education of their owners and breeders.

British Angora Goat Society

  • Trade Associations

Formed in 1981 to further the development of angora goats in the UK.

British Coloured Sheep Breeders Association

  • Trade Associations

All about coloured sheep, that is those that are not white which means hues ranging from dark brown to cream and black to silver grey

British Goat Society

  • Trade Associations

How to look after goats, improve breeding and safeguard against cruelty

British Gotland Sheep Society

  • Trade Associations

Where to find out more about this great breed of friendly, inquisitive and attractive sheep that produce superb fleeces

British Wool Marketing Board

  • Trade Associations

Find out about the central marketing system that operates in Britain with the aim of achieving the best possible net returns for farmers

Demeter-International

  • Trade Associations

Since its formation in 1997, this ecological association has built up an international network of individual certification organisations

Guild of Machine Knitters

  • Trade Associations

A UK-based, non-profit organisation run voluntarily by machine knitters aiming to increase awareness of their craft in both the UK and abroad

International Felt Makers Association

  • Trade Associations

Formed in 1979 to foster an international interest in felt, to promote its members' work and to further the exchange of knowledge and ideas

International Wool Textile Organisation

  • Trade Associations

An international body representing the world's wool textile trade and industry. A good source for standards, research and statistics

Knitting and Crochet Guild of Great Britain

  • Trade Associations

A national charity that has helped preserve and promote crochet, hand and machine knitting since its formation in 1978. Publishes a quarterly journal called SlipKnot

National Sheep Association

  • Trade Associations

A specialist organisation safeguarding the interests and future of UK sheep farmers

Organic Farmers & Growers

  • Trade Associations

One of the UK's leading organic certification bodies involved with the inspection and licensing of organic farming and food

Soil Association

  • Trade Associations

The UK charity that promotes sustainable, organic farming and whose organic trademark is the most well-known

Vegan Society

  • Trade Associations

Although this site will tell you more about silk, the society exists to advise on a life free of animal products for, it says, the benefit of people, animals and the planet

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