Article Info

Article Title
Wool Circle: A Yorkshire cooperative
Author
Karen Robinson
Issue date
Summer 2023
Issue number
41
Issue topic
Place
Description
This article describes Wool Circle, a group that aims to create “fully traceable Yorkshire [UK] yarn from rare breed sheep.” It describes several people involved in the group: Zoe Fletcher, researcher of sheep breeds; Edward and Laura Sutcliffe, shepherds of Lonk and some Whiteface Woodland sheep; and Nic Corrigan, knitwear designer and machine knitter.
Article topic list
breed-focus, rare breeds, community, sheep