Fashion designer Wave Weir faces challenges in sourcing local wool due to processing bottlenecks in the Canadian sheep farming industry.
has long preferred working with natural-fibre textiles like wool. They fit her ethos of sustainability not just because of where they’re sourced, but because they’re comfortable and practical – and last as long as her timeless designs. She herself opts for two layers of wool in lieu of a synthetic raincoat and still wears a wool-knit shirt she made for herself 40 years ago.
Luckily for the farmers – and for sustainably minded shoppers, too – there’s a movement afoot in Canada to revive our national wool industry and make better use of this oft-squandered resource, linked to a global push to provide alternatives to the environmentally damaging mass textile industry. and opened her own mill, the only one in the province; she both buys wool from farmers and processes it on their behalf.
Underhill’s vision for the future of Canadian wool is in sharp contrast with the “myth-building,” as she calls it, that it’s worth less than the cost of shearing. “We have a niche quantity of high-quality wool,” she says. With only about 850,000 sheep out of a global population of well over a billion, Canada is never going to be a wool powerhouse, she adds – nor should we try to be. Instead, we should look to our strengths.
Topsy Farms is a big supporter of local economies, and wanted to keep as much of their manufacturing in the region as possible.Canada currently lacks facilities that can handle the 1,500-plus pounds of raw wool Topsy or other farms might send them and take it from washing to spinning and knitting or weaving, right under one roof.on Ontario’s Amherst Island, no newcomer to selling products made from its wool.
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