We are proud to use 100% merino wool yarn to hand-make our design-your-own products. We have our own range of 24 different colours spun especially for us in a beautiful worsted yarn mill in Devon.

We thought you'd like to know a few interesting facts about Merino wool:

• The Merino is an excellent forager and very adaptable. It is bred predominantly for its wool, producing anywhere between 3kg and 18kg of wool per year.


• Merino is excellent at regulating body temperature, especially when worn against the skin. The wool provides some warmth, without overheating the wearer. It draws moisture (sweat) away from the skin, a phenomenon known as wicking. The fabric is slightly moisture repellent (keratin fibres are hydrophobic at one end and hydrophilic at the other), allowing the user to avoid the feeling of wetness.


• Like cotton, wool absorbs water (up to 1/3 its weight), but, unlike cotton, wool retains warmth when wet helping wearers avoid hypothermia after strenuous workouts (climbs) or weather events.


• Like most wools, merino contains lanolin which has antibacterial properties.


• Merino is one of the softest types of wool available, due to finer fibres and smaller scales.


• Merino has an excellent warmth-to-weight ratio compared to synthetics and to other wools, in part because the smaller fibres have microscopic cortices of dead air, trapping body heat similar to the way a sleeping bag warms its occupant.

*** We like sheep, in fact we LOVE sheep. We hate animal cruelty, especially to sheep. That is why we our merino wool fibre is 100% sourced in South Africa where the terrifying practice of mulesing is not carried out. If you don't know what mulesing is then look it up if you dare, it's horrifying.