Made from coarse wool sheared off upland Herdwick sheep, the gorgeous chairs offer a new way to use a beloved material that is sustainably harvested.

Yes, wool commodity prices have increased over the last decade and there have been some niche successes in, for example, rare breed wool such as Herdwick fleece from the UK’s Lake District.

Deemed worthless by the traditional textile industry, the coarse, dark wool from the Lake District’s Herdwick sheep has found an entirely different purpose: industrial design.

Because the competitors are spinning wool that hasn't been processed, it still has lanolin in it. This makes the wool greasier and more difficult to spin, so the ideal is finding a sheep with less ...

A free photography exhibition documenting the Herdwick sheep of the Lake District is set to take place at Penrith's Rheged's Gallery. The event will showcase portraits by photographer Ian Lawson ...