Animal welfare is at the heart of every wool grower’s farm. Around the world, wool farmers apply the best available animal husbandry practices to ensure the health of their flocks.
More than 80,000 trade visitors from 120 countries attended ISPO MUNICH, the world’s largest sports business exhibition, held 24-27 January 2016.
The trade fair season got underway last week with Heimtextil, the largest international trade fair for interiors textiles.
At Pitti Uomo complete designed looks heavily featured wool in technical developments and weather sensitive fashion as well as tweeds and fine worsted blue suits-the front runners.
Traditionally only a smattering of wool made its way into summer collections. But since the seasons have begun to morph into each other that has changed, with the qualities of summer or winter yarns improved and made more suitable by the addition of other yarns and processes.
Returning to Turkey for the first time in more than a decade IWTO brought together 75 representatives of the global wool textile industry for its annual Wool Round Table in Istanbul on 23-24 November 2015.
Wool made its presence known at this year’s Harrogate Carpet Show, the most important trade show for the UK carpet industry, reports Malcolm Sims CTexT FTI, international textile consultant.
IWTO is the recognised global authority for manufacturing standards in the wool textile industry and the wool industry is fully aware that it is working in an area where sustainable practices need to be transparent at all stages in the pipeline.
A recently published scientific study paves the way for better reporting of wool’s environmental performance, proposing a new set of methods for use in life cycle assessments of wool where wool is produced alongside meat or milk.
HRH The Prince of Wales marked the Campaign for Wool's fifth anniversary by highlighting two of wool’s most beneficial technical properties – its natural flame resistance and biodegradability.