As we’ve celebrated Wovember this year and spotlighted incredible artists harnessing the possibilities of wool, it’s a gentle reminder that you, too, are an artist with the power to choose your canvas.
That softer wool for clothing makes us safer. And the coarser stuff can still be put to use in our homes to make us, and the building, safer.
But how does this work? What is it about wool that makes it a safer fiber in the face of fire?
In this interview by Teresa Cabellos, Elena Solier tells us about her yarn, Xolla Wool, and the Ripollesa breed.
New Lanark was built in the late 18th century by David Dale, who build a cotton mill and housing for the workers needed to run it.