Lambswool has an ease that rewards being worn every day. Ours is grade A, sorted to 55–80 millimetres and 17–21 microns, then woven through a traditional twenty-nine-step process in a 250-year-old heritage mill and finished by hand.
The length of the fibre gives the cloth its charact. . .
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Lambswool has an ease that rewards being worn every day. Ours is grade A, sorted to 55–80 millimetres and 17–21 microns, then woven through a traditional twenty-nine-step process in a 250-year-old heritage mill and finished by hand.
The length of the fibre gives the cloth its character. A long staple holds itself together under tension, and the natural crimp within it means a scarf can be knotted, packed and worn daily yet still recover its shape overnight. Soft, warm and breathable, it keeps both its surface and its colour through years of ordinary use.
The twenty-nine steps that follow are largely a matter of handle. The cloth is washed and milled to raise a fine surface that holds air without adding weight, then pressed, checked against daylight and finished at the fringe by hand. None of it can be hurried, which is why the sequence has changed so little in the time the mill has been running.
Plain colours sit quietly beneath whatever is already in the wardrobe. The clan designs — Mackellar, Buchanan, Royal Stewart, Black Watch — hold their depth in winter light and are better given room than layered against pattern. Wear either over a jumper or cardigan, or across a poncho or cape when the weather turns.
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