Wool is absolutely not forgotten by me. I knit all my own woolens, and sew many of my summer clothes, always of natural fibers. I only wear wool, linen, cotton or silk. I buy good quality pieces that, frankly, feel like a stretch when I buy them, but even after four or five years in my wardrobe, are still relatively new, and can be recut, resewn into a different style, or made into something else completely if the mood strikes, because the cloth is good.
The fiber artist/stitcher in me is going twitchy in the fingers looking at that gorgeous crimp & long staple of those gently sheared sheep. Wool & other natural fibres are the best❤❤❤
But there is also a really, really sad side to the individual jumpers: if you lost someone at sea, and they were found again - you could identify them by the jumper.
How delightful and moving to watch this wee documentary in which we can sense the 'heart' of being attuned to 'Nature'. Hoping more people can feel and see all the benefits - personal and social of sheep, wool and natural fibres and the joy and 'goodness' they can bring the world - thankyou !
I've just been spinning for six months and absolutely love it. I stumbled upon this video and I'm so glad I did! Very inspiring to keep going. Can't wait to knit something with what I have spun! Thank you for the beautiful mini documentary!
Fabulous! I’m so on board with you on all of this! You’re speaking to the converted but keep it going, the world needs to hear and heed ❤❤(from Australia) ❤❤
So glad I learned to spin. So glad I have taught others the skill, whether or not they use it. So glad to have learned so much about different breeds of sheep and the different qualities of their wool.
Such a fabulous documentary.... I had really hoped it had lasted for another hour.. thank you for your dedication to our planet and to our existence...
I never considered throwing my sweaters or socks in the compost. Granted, none of them are worn out enough to consider doing anything with yet, but now I know what to do when they reach that point!
SOOO good and true to watch and learn something that was once the most original concept of sustainability and the healthiest life is the best life. Au Natural is and will always be best. TY for sharing.
Winter comes soon. It is a hard time for me - always was - but in my elder years, I look forward to wearing the herringbone tweed coat, the knitted cap and the woven scarf. They console against the winds and sleet, and do I not love the compliments on their beauty. I am joyous you would rather be tending your sheep...
So important to keep educating people. When I look back at the 70's and 80's ( I lived in a non-Western world before then) I am so horrified at the lack of natural materials - glass and metal replaced by plastics, wool and cotton and linen replaced by plastic, even our food was replaced by plastics. And the worst of the matter is that so many people had no idea. Thank you for this film. It makes many of us feel we are not alone in our quest to come together and try to keep the earth together and healthy.
@@dpelpal Perhaps you need to do research. Much of the food in cans, and processed, in the Mega-farms all are contaminated by petroleum by-products. Please do your own research.
I too would rather be tending my sheep, but who under 70 can afford property prices in the UK? What we really need is more Aaron Fletcher type solutions.
It is sad, but what does it say when society prefers artificial materials and products? It is the same with food. I so prefer natural. Thank you for this. I had no idea that even this area of life is struggling to stay afloat. I prefer natural fibers; wool, linen, cotton and silk. I sew much of my own clothing because I am not fond of whatever the 'style' of the day is. I knit and crochet as well, not as much as I used to do. I have always wanted to learn spinning, but I am now 62 and probably too old to learn it. If I had the opportunity I probably still would try. I have always enjoyed making my own things.
Just throw it into the compost bin. I can't say the same about my supposedly 100% cotton socks (commercial). They have been in my compost for over 2 years now and I keep finding them and tossing them back into the pile to cook...they still look like socks. 😭 Come spring I'm tossing them into the landfill bin should I see them again.
Beautiful. But I think there’s a “but” that isn’t addressed: sheep require open pasture and the UK has been massively deforested in the Middle Ages and Renaissance for ship building. And ever since, sheep have kept that treeless landscape treeless. Now there are admirable attempts at reforestation which I hope will grow. Doesn’t this history affect how we think of sheep holding?
I wonder if the girls and boys who "hang by a thread" with their stitching 😮 understand where they are going now and evolving 2024 following November 20, 2024, a good date to start with considering the sign of the times and the improvement of the world...😊❤🎉
It is so frustrating that in the US it is almost impossible to find 100% wool yarns. Almost everything is super wash and contains nylon/etc. I wear socks that I knit. It takes 10 minutes to wash/rinse a week’s worth of socks. Then you lay them out to dry. No biggie!
Beautifully done but one gentle suggestion is a flashing light warning in the description. That kinda of sun through trees flashing while moving is a prime seizure trigger
I hope Robert Kennedy Jr.'s message of Make America Healthy Again will spread across the world and we will Make The World Healthy Again. Wool is a very good start. Love this documentary!
Why do you yanks think EVERYTHING is about you? This is a documentary about wool, for pete’s sake. And j7st in case it’s not crystal clear, the rest of the world thinks the US is weird and dangerous. Get used to it.
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This could have lasted another 2 hours and kept me fully interested.
I was thinking the same!
Need a long documentary with soundtrack. Love the music.
@@Sewtired You guys will enjoy the Iron Age Roundhouse videos, esp, when the pony is hauling the foundation stones.
Wool is absolutely not forgotten by me. I knit all my own woolens, and sew many of my summer clothes, always of natural fibers. I only wear wool, linen, cotton or silk. I buy good quality pieces that, frankly, feel like a stretch when I buy them, but even after four or five years in my wardrobe, are still relatively new, and can be recut, resewn into a different style, or made into something else completely if the mood strikes, because the cloth is good.
Beautiful ❤ that's why I spin and knit and weave and mend.
I’m so honoured to be part of this, and it’s lovely to see those wintry days on the farms shown so beautifully. Well done chaps!
A beautiful film and you spoke so eloquently about our craft x
Fabulous
When can we expect a vid about traditional fishing boat sweater patterns?
My heart sings watching this. I prefer natural fibers for all the reasons you state.
Thankyou, you are keeping the message alive.xx🐝🐝🐝
The fiber artist/stitcher in me is going twitchy in the fingers looking at that gorgeous crimp & long staple of those gently sheared sheep.
Wool & other natural fibres are the best❤❤❤
I'm sure wool is coming back 👍 ❤ a poll on woolwarehouse customers were asking for more wool choices.
But there is also a really, really sad side to the individual jumpers: if you lost someone at sea, and they were found again - you could identify them by the jumper.
Thank you.
I am so glad that I found this. Wonderful. Thank you to all concerned.
I love that knitters are helping to improve things on the Earth! Great film and I will share it.
This is a beautiful documentary, I will be sharing with friends. Thank you!
How delightful and moving to watch this wee documentary in which we can sense the 'heart' of being attuned to 'Nature'. Hoping more people can feel and see all the benefits - personal and social of sheep, wool and natural fibres and the joy and 'goodness' they can bring the world - thankyou !
Lovely film, thank you and I love the song by Tom White.
My heart just filled up so much.
And I’ll be singing “I’d rather be tending my sheep’ all day!!
Just starting to use wool in my crochet items as I can afford. Thank you for making this film.
Couldn’t agree more.🙋🏼♀️🇦🇺👍
What a fabulous film. Stunningly created and presented.
I've just been spinning for six months and absolutely love it. I stumbled upon this video and I'm so glad I did! Very inspiring to keep going. Can't wait to knit something with what I have spun! Thank you for the beautiful mini documentary!
Fabulous! I’m so on board with you on all of this! You’re speaking to the converted but keep it going, the world needs to hear and heed ❤❤(from Australia) ❤❤
So glad I learned to spin. So glad I have taught others the skill, whether or not they use it. So glad to have learned so much about different breeds of sheep and the different qualities of their wool.
Such a fabulous documentary.... I had really hoped it had lasted for another hour.. thank you for your dedication to our planet and to our existence...
This is a very thoughtful and very lovely mini docu. Thank you!
In the 1970s we had a national wool marketing board in the UK, it had a symbol that was used on woollen clothings
I never considered throwing my sweaters or socks in the compost. Granted, none of them are worn out enough to consider doing anything with yet, but now I know what to do when they reach that point!
SOOO good and true to watch and learn something that was once the most original concept of sustainability and the healthiest life is the best life. Au Natural is and will always be best. TY for sharing.
So exciting to sit down to watch this and there was Marina. A very pleasant surprise. Beautifully done everyone.
THANKYOU so beautiful and informative .........food for thought !!
Lovely film 😊
Winter comes soon. It is a hard time for me - always was - but in my elder years, I look forward to wearing the herringbone tweed coat, the knitted cap and the woven scarf. They console against the winds and sleet, and do I not love the compliments on their beauty. I am joyous you would rather be tending your sheep...
What a wonderful video, I’d rather be knitting the yarn from the sheep 😊 lovely to see Marina on here too. Natural fibres all the way for me.
What a lovely documentary! Thank you!
Beautifully done! I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Beautiful 🤍🐑
Beautiful documentary!
❤Jen Hunter’s thoughts on wool being more beautiful on the sheep❤
If I had known how to knit when I was a child my feet would never have been cold 😢
So informative and beautifully filmed.
So important to keep educating people. When I look back at the 70's and 80's ( I lived in a non-Western world before then) I am so horrified at the lack of natural materials - glass and metal replaced by plastics, wool and cotton and linen replaced by plastic, even our food was replaced by plastics. And the worst of the matter is that so many people had no idea. Thank you for this film. It makes many of us feel we are not alone in our quest to come together and try to keep the earth together and healthy.
Our food has _not_ been replaced by plastics. Stop embellishing and exaggerating.
@@dpelpal Perhaps you need to do research. Much of the food in cans, and processed, in the Mega-farms all are contaminated by petroleum by-products. Please do your own research.
@@pattiwaterfield5193 Your "research" is a bunch of internet garbage and propaganda😄
@@dpelpal Sorry for your rage. Are you okay? I dont really want to know but maybe people around you could be concerned???
@@pattiwaterfield5193 Stop believing propaganda and nonsense. Stop spreading lies.
*You are not a scientist.*
Beautiful documentary! I really need to make my first wool jumper, I've stuck to hats, scarfs and handwarmers so far but definitely craving more 😊
This is just lovely and so very true
yeah, let's do it!
I too would rather be tending my sheep, but who under 70 can afford property prices in the UK?
What we really need is more Aaron Fletcher type solutions.
A beautiful insight into the need for more sustainable practices across the clothing industry
So inspiring thank you!
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This is wonderful ❤
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It is sad, but what does it say when society prefers artificial materials and products? It is the same with food. I so prefer natural. Thank you for this. I had no idea that even this area of life is struggling to stay afloat. I prefer natural fibers; wool, linen, cotton and silk. I sew much of my own clothing because I am not fond of whatever the 'style' of the day is. I knit and crochet as well, not as much as I used to do. I have always wanted to learn spinning, but I am now 62 and probably too old to learn it. If I had the opportunity I probably still would try. I have always enjoyed making my own things.
beautiful
Loved this film. One point - the Inuit here in Canada have never raised sheep
Have you not harvested the shed fibre/undercoat of the musk ox to make anything?
I love weaving wool for clothing, accessories, cushions. I never use man made fibers. Maybe not the most hip person in the world.
Just throw it into the compost bin. I can't say the same about my supposedly 100% cotton socks (commercial). They have been in my compost for over 2 years now and I keep finding them and tossing them back into the pile to cook...they still look like socks. 😭 Come spring I'm tossing them into the landfill bin should I see them again.
I had no idea that wool was only one percent of fiber used.
Beautiful. But I think there’s a “but” that isn’t addressed: sheep require open pasture and the UK has been massively deforested in the Middle Ages and Renaissance for ship building. And ever since, sheep have kept that treeless landscape treeless. Now there are admirable attempts at reforestation which I hope will grow. Doesn’t this history affect how we think of sheep holding?
Also, sheep used to shed naturally. Then man got involved.
I wonder if the girls and boys who "hang by a thread" with their stitching 😮 understand where they are going now and evolving 2024 following November 20, 2024, a good date to start with considering the sign of the times and the improvement of the world...😊❤🎉
Did that man really say it takes 1.5 hours to knit a pair of socks by hand??? It takes about 40 hours for an experienced knitter.
I only wear cotton, linen, and wool. I hate plastic (synthetic) clothes. Nowadays, natural fiber clothes are hard to find.
It is so frustrating that in the US it is almost impossible to find 100% wool yarns. Almost everything is super wash and contains nylon/etc. I wear socks that I knit. It takes 10 minutes to wash/rinse a week’s worth of socks. Then you lay them out to dry. No biggie!
US residents… we have spinning guilds all over the US if you want to learn to spin.
There are English folk working out how to bring sheep for wool back.
Beautifully done but one gentle suggestion is a flashing light warning in the description. That kinda of sun through trees flashing while moving is a prime seizure trigger
1%?????!!!!! I must be sustaining the 1%!!! LOL 😂 most of my wardrobe is wool!!!! 🥰💚🩵💛
Can't find this tune on RUclips. Well not this specific rendition...so disappointed
Did one of them say hand knit socks take about an hour and a half? I wish 😮 it takes way longer to hand knit socks. I
Opening song :..... he sounds SHHHHEXY!!!!😀🥊❤️
I hope Robert Kennedy Jr.'s message of Make America Healthy Again will spread across the world and we will Make The World Healthy Again. Wool is a very good start. Love this documentary!
Healthy by antivaxxing? Yeah, sounds like a great plan.... /s
Why do you yanks think EVERYTHING is about you? This is a documentary about wool, for pete’s sake.
And j7st in case it’s not crystal clear, the rest of the world thinks the US is weird and dangerous. Get used to it.