As part of Make UK’s National Manufacturing Day 2023 on 28 September, we hosted 2nd and 3rd year students and staff from the Fashion and Textiles Institute at Falmouth University,…
Colin Spencer Halsey, CEO talks about how we are tackling the rising energy costs. We are constantly reviewing how we can be more productive, and ideas regularly flow from our…
Now we have a pile of evenly organised fluff: clean, blended and oiled so that it will go through the next machines. At a small scale, the clean fibre can…
Here is an unskirted white Ryeland fleece on my kitchen floor. The grouting of the tiles will give some idea of the dimensions. It weighed around 2.5kg before I started…
Here we look at three important aspects of fleece and fibre: consistency/style, colour and animal health. Consistency varies considerably between different breeds, within the breed and across the animal. We…
One of the joys of having our own mill, is that it gives us the freedom to experiment and try new things. For the last two years we’ve celebrated our…
Here are a few snaps of the “new” Fearnaught. It had an illustrious past in a mill at Banbury, now sadly closed … The machine replaces our “old” Fearnaught…
As many of our avid readers will know, we have been working on a new Blacker yarn range, being launched this month! This is a permanent addition to our ranges,…
An integral part of all yarns is carding; without it the fibre simply can’t be made into anything useful. It’s a bit like brushing your hair, if you do it…