How Our Wool Blankets Are Made
Shearing Sheep
Kevin Ford Shearing Our Sheep
Sheared Ewes
Sheared Ewes
Skirting Wool
Skirting Wool
Baling Wool
Wool gets baled for shipping
Bainton Washing Machine
Bainton woolen mill washing machine
Bainton Woolen Mill
Wool drying process at Bainton
Carding Wool
Wool gets carded at S&D Spinnery
Wool Carding
Wool on the carding machines at S&D Spinnery
Crafts Wool
Carded Wool Pulled from the machine before it becomes yarn. Used for felting.
Spinning Room
Me in the S&D Spinnery where the carded wool gets spun into yarn
S& D Spinnery
Spindle Room at S&D Spinnery
S&D Spinnery Spindles
Spindles at S&D Spinnery where yarn gets plied into 1, 2 or 3 ply yarn
S&D Spinnery
Another View of the spindle area at S&D Spinnery
S&D Spinnery
Yarn onto massive rollers to be trucked to Wheelock Textiles to get woven into blankets
Wheelock Textiles
Blankets washed, cut to size
Signal Rock Farm Blanket
Our finished blanket