Finisterre Bowmont collection
Winter warmers made from a very special wool.
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Ethical clothing company Finisterre have just released their first collection of Bowmont wool beanies and scarves.
The unisex ribbed beanies and scarves are made from Bowmont sheep, an ultra-rare breed of sheep reared exclusively for Finisterre by farmer Lesley Prior in some remote Devonshire fields.
The aim of this project was to develop a ethically farmed and locally sourced wool that was a soft as Merino.
Says Finisterre: "The pinnacle of our ambition was to develop a legitimate UK fine fibre supply chain that would take British wool to the masses. With the fire lit, it took two years of stoking (detective-like research) to eventually lead us to Lesley Prior, the guardian of the last twenty eight Bowmont sheep on the planet. A further four years of hard work and passion followed until finally we find ourselves at the project's coming of age: our first 100% British Bowmont wool garments."
Read more about Finisterre's very special sheep in HUCK#018.
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Finisterre Bowmont collection (text) by Ed Andrews is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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