Coniston British Wool Triangle Scarf

Description

The Coniston Triangle Scarf is made from a fully traceable British wool from the Lake District.  It’s knitted in a textured moss stitch to be just the right size so that you can wear it round your neck or over your head in a bonnet style.

Every purchase you make supports the whole supply chain from fleece to finished knit, from the local farmers who can be paid a fair price for their fleece, the specialist graders, processors and spinners who turn the fibre into yarn, to the knitters who knit and hand finish the scarves.

The Farmers

The yarn for our scarf was made by farmers Maria and John at Nibthwaite Grange Farm near Ulverston in the Lake District.  The fleeces came from sheep on their farm as well as neighbouring Cumbrian farms in Barrow-In-Furness and Kendal.

The Sheep

The fibre for the yarn comes from the undyed fleece of two British breeds of sheep, Bluefaced Leicester and Teeswater.  Bluefaced Leicester is a lustre breed that produces a soft and silky yarn which is very fine – and which we use in our Raye knitwear.  Teeswater, a rare breed, has a long curly lustrous fleece which makes a sleek and shiny fibre which is most often used in blends.

The Making

The fleeces were washed and spun into yarn in Huddersfield and then the scarves were knitted into our design locally a few miles from Coniston.