With Canada 150 celebrations and the All Canada Sheep Classic coming to Alberta for Canada Day, when better than now to take a look back on the history of wool in Alberta. It might sound...
With Canada 150 celebrations and the All Canada Sheep Classic coming to Alberta for Canada Day, when better than now to take a look back on the history of wool in Alberta. It might sound...
Almost one year ago we set out to explore how wool textiles fit within environmentally and socially sustainable consumer choices. Through this blog series we have examined wool as a raw material, how it is processed,...
In this blog series we're exploring the idea of sustainability within the context of textiles, more specifically locally produced wool textiles. We are using the R's of Sustainability framework - rethink, refuse, reduce, reuse, repair, recycle,...
Care for people and the environment is always on our minds at Custom Woolen Mills - it is something we are very passionate about as the foundation of our business. You would be hard pressed...
This post is probably long overdue as we often have folks contacting us to learn about the wool we use and the farms that it comes from. We are so glad to have customers who...
We often get questions about how best to care for the 100% wool bedding that we make and sun-bleaching is one of the first things we recommend to people. Sun-bleaching is simply using the sun's...
