A History Of Wool

The History of wool is a tale told from long, long ago - back to the times when prehistoric man clothed themselves in the skins of the wild sheep they killed for food. Then came the shepherds of the bronze age, who mastered weaving it into cloth. The tribes started to develop their own yarn, learning to pull out the fibres and twisting it in their hands. They then taught themselves spinning and weaving, using crude machines made from materials they could find on the land.

Britain had already developed its own wool industry when the Romans landed in 55 BC, enchanting their emperors with the British made cloth. The Saxon invasions in the fifth century nearly wiped out the industry but by the eight century we were back on track, exporting woollen fabrics to the continent.