NEW SCARVES!
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It is with great pleasure that I can announce that we have a new collection of Bristol Cloth scarves!
Back in 2017 when I took the Bristol Cloth project from concept into business, and made the first 200 metres of cloth, I pre-sold the entire production with your incredible support, through a brilliantly successful crowdfunder, raising £18k to produce the first 200 metres of locally grown and made soil-to-soil fabric in England in about 200 years.
It later turned out that the mill had overproduced an additional 30 metres of cloth beyond our crowdfunder order, which I happily took and paid for.
I’ve been waiting for the right moment to create somthing new with this precious roll of cloth and this feels like the time.
Now that I’m happily settled on Dartmoor and into a new lifestyle, I’m thrilled to let you know that I am now unravelling the last ever roll of Bristol Cloth 1st Edtion, and cutting new scarves for you.
This is regeneratively farmed lambswool from Fernhill Farm in North Somerset, scoured with only water and organic natural soap, spun without synthetic spinning oil, hand dyed by myself with organic Madder root and Weld flower plant dyes, woven in the Bristol Weaving Mill on a rerurbished Dormier loom and finished with just organic natural soap and water and hot press. Making this the cleanest, localist and kindest approach to producing textiles in the UK. Please read full details about this increcible project and our features on BBC Countryfile, BBC News and Sky News in 2018 over at www.bristolcloth.co.uk and do purchase these scarves before they are all gone - they are going quickly!