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Brora creates limited edition jumper for Wool Week

Luxury Scottish cashmere and wool fashion brand, Brora has launched a limited edition jumper to mark The Campaign for Wool’s annual Wool Week designed by a textile student. Brora tasked two Scottish universities with designing a jumper inspired by geometric shapes and the Bauhaus artist, Anni Albers who was credited with blurring the lines...

Fashion

The Dumfries House Wool declaration signed

The Campaign for Wool and the International Wool Textile Organisation have presided over the signing of The Dumfries House Wool Declaration, witnessed by patron HRH The Prince of Wales, at the first ever wool conference that took place in Scotland last week. The ‘Custodians of The Wool Industry’ declaration has been created to ensure that key...

Design

UK designers support Wool Week

A plethora of top name designers are showing their support this week for Wool Week, by creating a one-off range of Wool handbags. Exclusively on display in Harvey Nichols, names to take part include Alexander Mcqueen, Christian Louboutin, Sang A, Burberry, Smythson. The bags will go on sale in an online auction, running between September 20-30,...