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