You know most people look at this and think cool but until you have sat down and tried to do it by hand you don't have any idea how amazing this process is. My wife and I spin our own wool from our Shetland flock and to just clean one Fleece takes a couple of days before you even get to carding and Combining. So by the time we have turned it into a product like a hat or scarf we have weeks of work put in to it and this facility just cuts it down to just a couple of hours it just boggles the mind
Totally agree. I have my bachelor's degree in Fine Arts and if I hadn't majored in Ceramics, my second choice would have been fibers. I remember just carding and washing wool in one of our classes and it was so laborious. But also so rewarding.
I stopped processing most of my own fleeces precisely for this reason. I still process kid mohair and fleeces that are important to me, like rare/endangered breeds, etc. so much labor. However, I’d love to get some hoggett from Cammie and make a nice greasy yarn.
It is mind boggling, love seeing it. No wonder wool clothing was so valued in the past and everyone learnt how to mend because of the time put into processing it by hand.
@@vindeljay Good point , I have started mending and darning again as we learned in domestic science years ago. Are'nt these young folk marvellous, I am 83 and they restore my faith in humanity........
Member of East Central Scotland Guild of Weavers Spinners and Dyers here. Absolutely fascinating to watch this familiar process done on a really big scale! Thank you for making this video, much appreciated.
A good woollen garment is basically an investment. It costs a lot upfront, but take good care of it and it will last for decades, and the cost per wear becomes much more reasonable.
As someone who has been knitting since I was a teen and dabbled in weaving, mostly with wool products, I was riveted to learn how the product goes from the sheep's back to my own handiwork.
Who taught you to knit, Gary? How old were you, and why do you think it "took" with you? I was 8, and a Taiwanese nanny taught me to keep me occupied while she enjoyed playing with my baby sister. Never stopped knitting after that.
@@christinesbetterknitting4533 I was taught to knit by a soldier called " sunshine" , because of his lovely smile. We were three little sisters staying with Grandma at York racing stables, no races or horses there during the war, just soldiers. Mum could knit but she was working in a bank while Dad was in the RAF and school holidays saw us staying with Grandparents for weeks on end. And yes, they were working too......from home.
Loved this. 🙂It's one thing to know how to wash a fleece in your bathtub and pick it, fluff it, card it, spin it, but it's fantastic to see how it's been industrialized as well. I had my sewing business in an old textile mill (albeit the cotton mill, not the wool mill) and just the history of the building was as interesting as the history of the clothing I was making.
@@jjohnsengraciesmom No. I had a regular job too that had me traveling and living out of hotels for 6 months at a time... kind of hard to run it from afar. 😛
I love that you take us through the processes that we wouldn't normally get to see. Such a difference than when the ladies carded and spun the wool by hand. Fascinating stuff. Thanks Cammy!
As someone who works with wool ( batting for quilts mostly), I really appreciate the entire process, thanks so much for taking the time to share it. 👍👍👍❤️🐑
Well Cammy I got to say that is a super clip to watch. 👍 Great to see the process which wool goes through aye! One heck of a journey once it’s removed from the sheep. 👍
Big thanks to Haworth for allowing you to film all that! As someone who does her scouring in a 40litre bucket in the bathroom, and uses old towels and sunshine to get it dry.... it's amazing to see the machines handling such quantities of wool. After having been warned of the dangers of felting due to the water being too hot or agitating the wool too much, it's surprising to see the wool being thrown and blown around so vigorously. But I like the way it's moved through the washes and rinses, by the bars with fingers going just under the water. Great stuff, Cammy, thank you so much, and please do keep it coming!
This is one of a kind series Cammy. I can’t get over the time you have taken to educate us further on all things “sheep” related. This has been taking us from beginning of the product through to the end. Once again Cammy thank you for your hard work and passing on your love of sheep. Can’t wait for lambing start!
This is absolutely amazing video on how wool is processed. Thank you for filming this Cammy. This is wotbhy of an educational award. I can’t believe how many people are missing out by not subscribing to your channel. ❤️❤️❤️
Awww Mate this has got to be one of your best blogs by far. I can’t thank you enough for educating all of us on the process. From birth, to grazing, to shearing, to the wool process. I’m awe struck. Thank you Cammy and Liz.
Great intuitive filming of the processing of the wool and your ability to connect with people and put them at ease makes for an excellent presentation.
I use lanolin on my dry feet. Once a week I apply a thick layer after soaking my feet, then wear socks overnight as it does a job softening the hard skin. Also good for putting on my hands after gardening.
Cammy, you are a natural presenter, able to clearly get the detail out and explained to the viewer. Your star shines, and it wouldn’t surprise me if some Media channel gave you a job. A very personable chap .
This is so cool, I love that you were able to show the whole process! I have seen videos on doing this all by hand and wondered what it looked like in a larger scale operation. I also love that they try to have as little waste as possible! Thank you for making videos like this!
We need to find more uses for British wool so that hopefully the producer at least breaks even and hopefully a little extra. A good insight into what goes on and I learnt quite a lot. Before wool was just wool and had to be sold to the wool marketing board. Well done to all concerned in making this.
Great video! My mom and Aunt use to say how much they hated sheep shearing time as it was their job to card and clean the wool with their mom so the wool could be used for knitted socks, sweaters and filling for mattresses. I can now appreciate what they were talking about after seeing the process in the factory. What a wonderful durable product the end result is. God bless those in that factory that bring us this wonderful fibre! It was incredible to see the process it goes through to obtain the finished product. I really hope that we start using wool more frequently as I really miss the longevity it has and what a natural fibre gives us compared to synthetic. Thank you Cammy for this wonderful video and thanks to all the people that allowed us to see how wool is handled and processed and the incredible work and expertise it takes to get such a wonderful finished product.
I was working there when the scouring machinery was installed when the company relocated from Haworth to Bradford in 1997. The New Zealand company that manufactured the machinery was at the cutting edge of wool scouring technology.
What wonderful machines. My Great Grandma used to do all of that by hand. Right up to making yarn. Very hard work. Fascinating series Cammy, Thank you.
Cammy, I say this every video, but you deserve a huge "WELL DONE" again, just brilliant! I can't wait to see how many products that are currently using wool, but how many processes and potential uses in the future. So I'm hoping you continue this series for us and I pray for people to open their eyes to this amazing opportunity of a natural resource! Thank you, Cammy and I know I can speak for many of us, that you're by far our favorite RUclipsr. Cheers from Texas
Fascinating. All that fleecy goodness makes you just want to have a mountain of it to jump in. The tour was so informative. It just adds to my admiration of wool and the gift of being able to knit/use it in other products as well. Shetland wool is fabulous. Thank you again for a great video.
Very interesting and cool to see what happens after shearing the sheep, Cammie. Much more goes into it than is known, for sure, and accounts for the pricing. Thank you for this!!
Thanks so much for this entire video. I always wondered how the wool became yarn, besides by the hand method of carding and spinning. The Sheep Game videos are educational, informative and fun!
I'm fascinated by the process from lamb to cleaned wool bump. Next up: how it is dyed and twisted into usable yarn. Also, it would be nice to see the anatomy of the wool fiber and how wool is felted.
That was 100% interesting. Don't hesitate to show us more like this. I was fascinated by the whole process - who knew! Many thanks indeed. And thanks to Andrew - very knowledgeable.
Amazing stuff. To see all the process and know what has to be done. Thank you Camie, it's never to late to learn and it makes or helps you appreciate something much, much more. Blessings to Lizzie, Jock and you 🙏🕊💜🕊🌹
This was great! Thank you for putting these tours together for us. When I was a child, I used to watch my granny card wool by hand with paddles. It was fascinating then and its fascinating now. Brilliant!👍
What an excellent vid!!! Sharing it my friends! Saving it to a playlist! I have hand washed, carded, hand spun, and woven the yarns, felted wool, knitted and crocheted the yarns into tapestries, clothing, pillows, blankets, and toys as well as art sculptures. I love wool!🦌💌❤️🐑🪡🧶🧣🧤🧦
It’s important to recycle this cloth like our grandparents did. A well kept quality wool coat can be passed down for generations. They were very well made in the 30’s and 40’s. Even the linings were top notch compared to today’s coats.
I really appreciate that this video was made because I was just thinking a few days ago how i'd like to see what happens to the wool after it's sheared off. The only education i've had about the processing of wool is from a school trip in a museum explaining victorian methods. Seeing the MODERN DAY process through the machines just shows how far things have come in regards to all those labour intensive jobs now being done mechanically. Yes, think of all those jobs people used to have for all those processes... but you can't deny this is a superb system that really pulls our species forward. Ok so it's 4am, maybe i'm feeling a bit whimsical and philosophical right now... Fascinating interview at the end there - it feels enlightening to be educated anew about something so fundamental to our society. More of these sorts of processes should be shown to the wider public, so that more respect can be cultivated for the farmers and all the workers in between the processing of the raw material into the final product. Customers tend to take for granted all of the work involved to warrant the price tag. I certainly won't look at a ball of wool the same way again. Thank you for the pleasure of viewing this video, I'm going to share it 😊
Amazing video! I'm born and bred in Yorkshire (Barnsley) and knew about the scouring plant in Haworth but I never knew so much British wool passes through there. I started watching your channel after GP sent me over a few months ago and I'm totally hooked so I'm working my way through your older vids as I wait for each new one to come out😂. I love your positive attitude, it's inspiring, and you have real talent for making great videos and choosing great content. ❤
It is good to see the wool industry alive and kicking in the UK. Others have remarked on the scale of the enterprise, but it is no surprise to me because I worked for 25 years in the Lancashire cotton industry until its demise. Every mill was organised on a similar scale to what we have seen here - when I first saw it in action, as a school leaver back in the 1950's my mind was blown at the scale of things. We don't have a cotton industry any more and I remember a remark by a workmate, when I was an apprentice and the cotton industry was fighting against cheap imports - he said that without a textile industry Britain would be unable to fight a war in the future. I often thought about that and it applies to the wool industry as well. we only need to think about all the uniforms required by the various government agencies - Army, RAF, Navy, police, firefighters, railways and just about anything else purchased on behalf of the nation. How can it be good for the nation as a whole when all these products have to be purchased abroad, but yet our home industry was allowed to wither on the vine.
Wool's always been great! The greatest part about it is how many people it employs - from the shepherd/ shearers, and wool handlers, to the incredible sorters like Richard (who DEFINITELY needs his own channel) to the plant workers in the warehouse and the scouring plant. I'm an even bigger wool cheerleader now
What a fabulous video!!!. I kept saying WOW to myself---since you weren't here--- They made it look so easy and the end produce so lovely. This is a must video. I feel pity for my ancestors and the work they had to to do. Thank You, Thank You for the series.
I'm sitting here knitting away and watching your vid. I concur with the people a little lower down, you are one of two youtubers I click like before I start watching. Love the videos, and the content.
Brilliant video. I am a spinner and weaver, love to see the process before the fibre is bought by me. Love to see all your videos. Thanks so much for doing them
Another interesting video! I love to see how things work. The machines are magnificent. The technology is magnificent. Thanks for showing us another piece of the wool puzzle!
What a supeb videop once again Cammy, to see the full wool process was unreal and just to see how much works is needed in that industry to get the end result was unreal.
Thank you Cammy and Hayworth team for sharing this behind the scenes work! Amazing what it takes from what you and Sandy do, then on to companies like Hayworth all so I can buy a couple skeins to make a scarf to share with family/friends.
You inspired me to visit this place myself. I grabbed some photos and video for Baavet. We have wool from out farmers go through here for the duvets me make. Facinating place and process. Thanks for the Video!
This was such an amazing educational video, thank you Cammie for taking the time to video and edit. The plant operation was mind boggling. It is truly incredible to see how much is involved in processing the wool. 👍👍👏👏🥰
that was beyond fascinating! now I know where my little flocks wool goes through to come back as roving! I must say I would have tried to sneak out with one of those bumps of wool under my jacket, looked delicious for hand spinning!
These videos are just brilliant, Cammy. So informative and interesting! As someone who has done many different types of fiber crafts, this series on wool has been especially fascinating. Would love to see other series on down line sheep products! Lanolin processing would be very interesting.
I really enjoyed this video. I love to watch how products go from raw material to something useful. Now if you had only visited the carpet factory, we could have seen it turn into rugs...
Yes, I discovered there is one in Scotland quite by accident. I used to keep a small flock of sheep back in the 80s here in Maine. I never got to see the process my wool went through to morf into the wool I used to sell/use, so I find this, and all your videos extremely informative. Your countryside is quite like Maine, which I suppose is why a lot of people from Scotland choose to settle here. (I have Scottish ancestors.)
Thank you so much for taking us on this fantastic tour. I have always been fascinated at the complete wool process from shear to fabric. It has to be on of the most interesting manufacturing processes. To think the same basic mechanisms in processing has not changed in thousands of years, just the automated machining processing in modern times. Regards from South Africa
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You know most people look at this and think cool but until you have sat down and tried to do it by hand you don't have any idea how amazing this process is. My wife and I spin our own wool from our Shetland flock and to just clean one Fleece takes a couple of days before you even get to carding and Combining. So by the time we have turned it into a product like a hat or scarf we have weeks of work put in to it and this facility just cuts it down to just a couple of hours it just boggles the mind
Amazing commitment! Such a tough art to master as well!
Totally agree. I have my bachelor's degree in Fine Arts and if I hadn't majored in Ceramics, my second choice would have been fibers. I remember just carding and washing wool in one of our classes and it was so laborious. But also so rewarding.
I stopped processing most of my own fleeces precisely for this reason. I still process kid mohair and fleeces that are important to me, like rare/endangered breeds, etc. so much labor. However, I’d love to get some hoggett from Cammie and make a nice greasy yarn.
It is mind boggling, love seeing it. No wonder wool clothing was so valued in the past and everyone learnt how to mend because of the time put into processing it by hand.
@@vindeljay Good point , I have started mending and darning again as we learned in domestic science years ago. Are'nt these young folk marvellous, I am 83 and they restore my faith in humanity........
The only RUclipsr that I always click like before I even watch….we know every video is going to be great 👍
I do too so I don’t forget. Haven’t seen a bad one yet.
Same here!
Thank you all 🥰🥰
I do the same! 🐑
Same here , he’s some lad never stops working . ⭐️🐑
Member of East Central Scotland Guild of Weavers Spinners and Dyers here. Absolutely fascinating to watch this familiar process done on a really big scale! Thank you for making this video, much appreciated.
Brilliant video, can totally understand why wool is so expensive to buy.
Exactly Mary! So hard to get it to the end product!
A good woollen garment is basically an investment. It costs a lot upfront, but take good care of it and it will last for decades, and the cost per wear becomes much more reasonable.
Fascinating stuff. I love a good factory tour. It’s good to know what happens after the sheering is over. Thanks !
As someone who has been knitting since I was a teen and dabbled in weaving, mostly with wool products, I was riveted to learn how the product goes from the sheep's back to my own handiwork.
Thanks Gary!
Who taught you to knit, Gary? How old were you, and why do you think it "took" with you? I was 8, and a Taiwanese nanny taught me to keep me occupied while she enjoyed playing with my baby sister. Never stopped knitting after that.
@@christinesbetterknitting4533 I was taught to knit by a soldier called " sunshine" , because of his lovely smile. We were three little sisters staying with Grandma at York racing stables, no races or horses there during the war, just soldiers. Mum could knit but she was working in a bank while Dad was in the RAF and school holidays saw us staying with Grandparents for weeks on end. And yes, they were working too......from home.
@@pammorrison7512
Lovey knitting history you have of your family ! 💟
heads up to our ancestors who used to do all this by hand and then invented machines to do the job. Bring back our textile industry.
Wow, I had no idea how this worked. Thank you so much for taking us on these tours.
Loved this. 🙂It's one thing to know how to wash a fleece in your bathtub and pick it, fluff it, card it, spin it, but it's fantastic to see how it's been industrialized as well. I had my sewing business in an old textile mill (albeit the cotton mill, not the wool mill) and just the history of the building was as interesting as the history of the clothing I was making.
@thepeanutgallert1699 do you still have ypur sewing business.
@@jjohnsengraciesmom No. I had a regular job too that had me traveling and living out of hotels for 6 months at a time... kind of hard to run it from afar. 😛
As someone who loves to knit, watching this is fantastic, thank you for sharing with us!
I love that you take us through the processes that we wouldn't normally get to see. Such a difference than when the ladies carded and spun the wool by hand. Fascinating stuff. Thanks Cammy!
Oh wow. I I never really thought about the process the wool has to take to do the felting I so luv to do.
As someone who works with wool ( batting for quilts mostly), I really appreciate the entire process, thanks so much for taking the time to share it. 👍👍👍❤️🐑
🙏 Thank You 👍 I am a Knitter, crochet 🧶 appreciate this video, awesome work, 👀 I'll enjoy knitting now more than ever🙏
Well Cammy I got to say that is a super clip to watch. 👍
Great to see the process which wool goes through aye! One heck of a journey once it’s removed from the sheep. 👍
Big thanks to Haworth for allowing you to film all that! As someone who does her scouring in a 40litre bucket in the bathroom, and uses old towels and sunshine to get it dry.... it's amazing to see the machines handling such quantities of wool. After having been warned of the dangers of felting due to the water being too hot or agitating the wool too much, it's surprising to see the wool being thrown and blown around so vigorously. But I like the way it's moved through the washes and rinses, by the bars with fingers going just under the water.
Great stuff, Cammy, thank you so much, and please do keep it coming!
This is one of a kind series Cammy. I can’t get over the time you have taken to educate us further on all things “sheep” related. This has been taking us from beginning of the product through to the end. Once again Cammy thank you for your hard work and passing on your love of sheep. Can’t wait for lambing start!
Great video! I have tried to process a raw fleece and it is a tremendous amount of work! Just the washing and rinsing alone takes all day +
This is absolutely amazing video on how wool is processed. Thank you for filming this Cammy. This is wotbhy of an educational award. I can’t believe how many people are missing out by not subscribing to your channel. ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks so much Teresa! I was just delighted to get the chance to see it myself! Making a video for you guys was a bonus!
@@TheSheepGame I've NEVER seen any info on wool processing & I'm amazed 😮😊
I just subscribed 😊
Somebody had to think and engineer this process, totally cool! Excellent video!
Wow Thank you Cammy this was so exciting to see how its done 😮
Awww Mate this has got to be one of your best blogs by far. I can’t thank you enough for educating all of us on the process. From birth, to grazing, to shearing, to the wool process. I’m awe struck. Thank you Cammy and Liz.
Thanks Karen!
Great intuitive filming of the processing of the wool and your ability to connect with people and put them at ease makes for an excellent presentation.
I use lanolin on my dry feet. Once a week I apply a thick layer after soaking my feet, then wear socks overnight as it does a job softening the hard skin. Also good for putting on my hands after gardening.
Super documentary, informative, and not covered up with the typical horrible, irritating music. Thank you
People who invented these machines are priceless...
What intelligence.
Genius ...
Absolutely brilliant series Cammy and thank you so, so much for all your hard work in putting all of this together for us. 🙏 👍
This was so informative! So interesting, I learned something new on how the process is done...Thank You..
I love your enthusiasm. Nice to see where the wool goes.
Cammy, you are a natural presenter, able to clearly get the detail out and explained to the viewer. Your star shines, and it wouldn’t surprise me if some Media channel gave you a job. A very personable chap .
Thanks Clair!! I’m gonna save that comment and put it in my CV 🥰
This is so cool, I love that you were able to show the whole process! I have seen videos on doing this all by hand and wondered what it looked like in a larger scale operation. I also love that they try to have as little waste as possible! Thank you for making videos like this!
We need to find more uses for British wool so that hopefully the producer at least breaks even and hopefully a little extra. A good insight into what goes on and I learnt quite a lot. Before wool was just wool and had to be sold to the wool marketing board. Well done to all concerned in making this.
Great video! My mom and Aunt use to say how much they hated sheep shearing time as it was their job to card and clean the wool with their mom so the wool could be used for knitted socks, sweaters and filling for mattresses. I can now appreciate what they were talking about after seeing the process in the factory. What a wonderful durable product the end result is. God bless those in that factory that bring us this wonderful fibre! It was incredible to see the process it goes through to obtain the finished product. I really hope that we start using wool more frequently as I really miss the longevity it has and what a natural fibre gives us compared to synthetic. Thank you Cammy for this wonderful video and thanks to all the people that allowed us to see how wool is handled and processed and the incredible work and expertise it takes to get such a wonderful finished product.
Well done Cammy .glad to see New Zealand was mentioned a few times along the first wash machines made in NZ .thank you for the tours.🇳🇿👍👌🐑🐑
I was working there when the scouring machinery was installed when the company relocated from Haworth to Bradford in 1997. The New Zealand company that manufactured the machinery was at the cutting edge of wool scouring technology.
I've recently learned the entire 'sheep to shawl' process, but entirely by hand -- amazing to see the work done on such a large scale!
What wonderful machines. My Great Grandma used to do all of that by hand. Right up to making yarn. Very hard work. Fascinating series Cammy, Thank you.
In fact, our coats, suits, dresses and much more made from wool begin at such enterprises. Very interesting place!
Cammy, I say this every video, but you deserve a huge "WELL DONE" again, just brilliant! I can't wait to see how many products that are currently using wool, but how many processes and potential uses in the future. So I'm hoping you continue this series for us and I pray for people to open their eyes to this amazing opportunity of a natural resource! Thank you, Cammy and I know I can speak for many of us, that you're by far our favorite RUclipsr. Cheers from Texas
Incredibly neat to see the process!
Fascinating. All that fleecy goodness makes you just want to have a mountain of it to jump in. The tour was so informative. It just adds to my admiration of wool and the gift of being able to knit/use it in other products as well. Shetland wool is fabulous. Thank you again for a great video.
Thanks Donna! Glad you enjoyed it!
Very interesting and cool to see what happens after shearing the sheep, Cammie. Much more goes into it than is known, for sure, and accounts for the pricing. Thank you for this!!
Thanks so much for this entire video. I always wondered how the wool became yarn, besides by the hand method of carding and spinning. The Sheep Game videos are educational, informative and fun!
Watching this as I'm knitting a pair of wool socks and just amazed at the process of yarn making.
Braw Sandy what a great skill you have!
I'm fascinated by the process from lamb to cleaned wool bump. Next up: how it is dyed and twisted into usable yarn. Also, it would be nice to see the anatomy of the wool fiber and how wool is felted.
I’ll maybe do one on Harris tweed soon!
Your factory tour videos are always really fascinating. It's like an in-depth How It's Made episode which I 100% mean as a compliment!
Thanks Brandi!
I love wool! It was so fun to see how it's done in a big factory. I have only seen wool processed on a smaller scale.
So that was amazing. Thank you so much for walking us through the processing plant. I found it fascinating.
That was 100% interesting. Don't hesitate to show us more like this. I was fascinated by the whole process - who knew! Many thanks indeed. And thanks to Andrew - very knowledgeable.
Amazing stuff. To see all the process and know what has to be done. Thank you Camie, it's never to late to learn and it makes or helps you appreciate something much, much more.
Blessings to Lizzie, Jock and you 🙏🕊💜🕊🌹
Thanks Gail!
This was great! Thank you for putting these tours together for us. When I was a child, I used to watch my granny card wool by hand with paddles. It was fascinating then and its fascinating now. Brilliant!👍
I really love these videos that show the whole journey from sheep to products. Fantastic.
I have learned so very much from your videos! Thank You for going above and beyond to bring us all this knowledge!!!
Very educational Cammy. Thanks for taking us along❤
Fascinating hats off to the hand spinners loved working with their wool❤
These numbers are astounding. Thank you for the tour.
What an excellent vid!!! Sharing it my friends! Saving it to a playlist! I have hand washed, carded, hand spun, and woven the yarns, felted wool, knitted and crocheted the yarns into tapestries, clothing, pillows, blankets, and toys as well as art sculptures. I love wool!🦌💌❤️🐑🪡🧶🧣🧤🧦
Thanks so much and that’s amazing you have done so much!
EVERY part of this process is FASCINATING and SO satisfying to watch!
Great content! Love learning about the whole process of getting wool to end users.
Very interesting process! Thank you for showing this to us. ☃️❄️💚🙃
That was amazing Cammy, thank you.
Thanks Cammy for showing us this process, very interesting. I appreciate your time and the company for allowing you to film the whole operation.
Greetings from the states..very interesting process..I will never look at my clothes and makeup the same again..😊
It’s important to recycle this cloth like our grandparents did. A well kept quality wool coat can be passed down for generations. They were very well made in the 30’s and 40’s. Even the linings were top notch compared to today’s coats.
I really appreciate that this video was made because I was just thinking a few days ago how i'd like to see what happens to the wool after it's sheared off. The only education i've had about the processing of wool is from a school trip in a museum explaining victorian methods.
Seeing the MODERN DAY process through the machines just shows how far things have come in regards to all those labour intensive jobs now being done mechanically.
Yes, think of all those jobs people used to have for all those processes... but you can't deny this is a superb system that really pulls our species forward.
Ok so it's 4am, maybe i'm feeling a bit whimsical and philosophical right now...
Fascinating interview at the end there - it feels enlightening to be educated anew about something so fundamental to our society. More of these sorts of processes should be shown to the wider public, so that more respect can be cultivated for the farmers and all the workers in between the processing of the raw material into the final product.
Customers tend to take for granted all of the work involved to warrant the price tag. I certainly won't look at a ball of wool the same way again.
Thank you for the pleasure of viewing this video, I'm going to share it 😊
Amazing video! I'm born and bred in Yorkshire (Barnsley) and knew about the scouring plant in Haworth but I never knew so much British wool passes through there. I started watching your channel after GP sent me over a few months ago and I'm totally hooked so I'm working my way through your older vids as I wait for each new one to come out😂. I love your positive attitude, it's inspiring, and you have real talent for making great videos and choosing great content. ❤
It is good to see the wool industry alive and kicking in the UK. Others have remarked on the scale of the enterprise, but it is no surprise to me because I worked for 25 years in the Lancashire cotton industry until its demise. Every mill was organised on a similar scale to what we have seen here - when I first saw it in action, as a school leaver back in the 1950's my mind was blown at the scale of things. We don't have a cotton industry any more and I remember a remark by a workmate, when I was an apprentice and the cotton industry was fighting against cheap imports - he said that without a textile industry Britain would be unable to fight a war in the future. I often thought about that and it applies to the wool industry as well. we only need to think about all the uniforms required by the various government agencies - Army, RAF, Navy, police, firefighters, railways and just about anything else purchased on behalf of the nation. How can it be good for the nation as a whole when all these products have to be purchased abroad, but yet our home industry was allowed to wither on the vine.
This was so interesting. Can understand why wool is expensive, but then again there is no other fibre that matches it!
Wool's always been great! The greatest part about it is how many people it employs - from the shepherd/ shearers, and wool handlers, to the incredible sorters like Richard (who DEFINITELY needs his own channel) to the plant workers in the warehouse and the scouring plant. I'm an even bigger wool cheerleader now
What a fabulous video!!!. I kept saying WOW to myself---since you weren't here--- They made it look so easy and the end produce so lovely. This is a must video. I feel pity for my ancestors and the work they had to to do. Thank You, Thank You for the series.
That was superb. I was so excited as you went from machine to machine. Thanks Cammy. Excellent video 🌻
I'm sitting here knitting away and watching your vid.
I concur with the people a little lower down, you are one of two youtubers I click like before I start watching. Love the videos, and the content.
Brilliant video. I am a spinner and weaver, love to see the process before the fibre is
bought by me. Love to see all your videos. Thanks so much for doing them
Another interesting video! I love to see how things work. The machines are magnificent. The technology is magnificent. Thanks for showing us another piece of the wool puzzle!
What a supeb videop once again Cammy, to see the full wool process was unreal and just to see how much works is needed in that industry to get the end result was unreal.
This is brilliant. Thank you Cammy and everyone in the video for sharing this process.
Thank you Cammy and Hayworth team for sharing this behind the scenes work! Amazing what it takes from what you and Sandy do, then on to companies like Hayworth all so I can buy a couple skeins to make a scarf to share with family/friends.
You inspired me to visit this place myself. I grabbed some photos and video for Baavet. We have wool from out farmers go through here for the duvets me make. Facinating place and process. Thanks for the Video!
This was such an amazing educational video, thank you Cammie for taking the time to video and edit. The plant operation was mind boggling. It is truly incredible to see how much is involved in processing the wool. 👍👍👏👏🥰
This was SOOOO COOL! Thanks for taking us along!
that was beyond fascinating! now I know where my little flocks wool goes through to come back as roving! I must say I would have tried to sneak out with one of those bumps of wool under my jacket, looked delicious for hand spinning!
You and me both (about sneaking out some of that roving)
Very interesting. Glad the machines do it now instead of manual ways!
Another fantastic video. The sheer (shear hehe) volume is staggering. Thanks for sharing this.
O, magic! Seeing those fluffy fibers flow like rivulets of water out of the carding machine, beautiful.
This was so interesting!!! And just plain COOL! Leave it to you Cammy, to bring cool to wool 😊🐑💙✌️
This was amazing to watch. Thank you for showing us How it’s made. Very cool process to see.
Absolutely love this - this is local to me and I never knew the amount of wool that was being processed on our doorstep. Incredible!
As a spinner, I found this fascinating, having done all these steps one fleece at a time. And keeping sheep vicariously through you is lots of fun!
These videos are just brilliant, Cammy. So informative and interesting! As someone who has done many different types of fiber crafts, this series on wool has been especially fascinating. Would love to see other series on down line sheep products! Lanolin processing would be very interesting.
WOW! I have a list of questions. I’ll throw them up when I’m off work. Thanks for this vid!
As someone who takes about one Shetland fleece per year and processes it by hand, this is incredible to watch!
This was absolutely fascinating!!
Great video. Thanks for taking the time to visit the scouring plant.
That was very interesting. I never knew how the wool was processed
I really enjoyed this video. I love to watch how products go from raw material to something useful. Now if you had only visited the carpet factory, we could have seen it turn into rugs...
Thank you so much for sharing this. Now we understand why wool clothing is so expensive but well worth it. Absolutely Brilliant.
An excellent series on processing wool. Keep up the good work! From North Berwick, Maine, USA
Thanks Elizabeth and so amazing that there is a North Berwick in USA!!
Yes, I discovered there is one in Scotland quite by accident. I used to keep a small flock of sheep back in the 80s here in Maine. I never got to see the process my wool went through to morf into the wool I used to sell/use, so I find this, and all your videos extremely informative. Your countryside is quite like Maine, which I suppose is why a lot of people from Scotland choose to settle here. (I have Scottish ancestors.)
This really makes you realize how much goes into getting the wool out to customers. Thank you for sharing this with us. This was so interesting. 😊
Cameron, this has been so interesting! Thank you for showing all of us👍🤗
Incredible to see the process. It is wonderful that so much of the wool is used in one way or another.
Thank you so much for taking us on this fantastic tour. I have always been fascinated at the complete wool process from shear to fabric. It has to be on of the most interesting manufacturing processes. To think the same basic mechanisms in processing has not changed in thousands of years, just the automated machining processing in modern times.
Regards from South Africa
Don't forget that lanolin is a byproduct of sheep’s wool and well-known for its moisture-repelling properties. We use Lanocare©on underside of our vehicles as we live in coastal area. It uses the power of lanolin to create a robust, long-lasting underseal that effectively resists rust.