Historic wool

Once one of the fastest sailing boats in the world, taking an incredible 110 days to sail from Shanghai fully laden with tea to London, the Cutty S...

We've promised to keep you up to date with all our woolly facts and discoveries as we travel the country in search of wool blankets for our store....

A little-known fact is that wool was once considered to be such an important part of the British economy that Edward III, the ruling monarch betwe...

With all of the hubris going on around Britain’s future relationship with Europe post Brexit, one could be forgiven for forgetting that we have been trading with our European partners for hundreds of years.

Wool’s first recorded use by humans can be traced back to ancient Mesopotamia – present day Iraq, Kuwait, and parts of Syria and Turkey – where it...