Christopher Mockridge 
Can you wash a sheepskin at 60 degrees Celsius? (140 Fahrenheit) Can you wash a sheepskin at 60 degrees?. Will a sheepskin survive a very hot wash? A customer emailed in to see if sheepskins can be washed at 60 degrees Celsius. Her local dust mites had proven to be awful house guests and had … Read more
As the weeks wore on the beautiful clean lines, the thin steel banisters and hyper-polished concrete floor (even the kitchen worktops are made of concrete – poured into a mould in the basement and ground and polished on-site), seemed cold and left nowhere for the eye to rest. The underfloor heating elements work very well but the place lacked real warmth.
What reason could compel so many otherwise sensible, rational, people to disregard nearly sixteen million quality home-grown furs every year, even after they have already eaten the sheep?
How to (not) die on Dartmoor – Meet Kevin Kevin holds the view that the best way to explore Dartmoor is to put away the GPS and follow sheep paths and instinct. He explains why, between peat bogs and feather beds, it’s a bad idea. Kevin grew up on Dartmoor and walks without plan between … Read more
Shetland – Sub Arctic archipelago makes warm sheepskin shock. Buy Now Things Take Time When You’re This Far North. The Shetland Islands, a subarctic archipelago off mainland Scotland, must BY LAW be shown on maps at the correct distance from Scotland. There’s some 100 islands in this remote place, 20 are inhabited. Orkney is the … Read more
How Do Sheep Cope With First, the space between the hairs slows air movement. Dramatically. One might be tempted to say sheepskin “traps” the warm air, but in realty the fleece will breath air like a sponge will breathe water – that’s to say it will “breath” – but only when outside atmospheric pressure differs … Read more
They’re not Jacob’s sheep, they are mine… “What shall I give you?” he asked. “Don’t give me anything,” Jacob replied. “But if you will do this one thing for me, I will go on tending your flocks and watching over them: Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled … Read more
Science shows the functionality of a sheep fleece Man-made fibers can’t get close. Herdwick are hardy from birth and native to the rugged fell mountains of the Lake District. It rains in here, almost all the time. Whilst the Lake District might conjure up images of Windermere bound coaches stuffed with wheeled luggage, and passengers barely … Read more
Everything we supply can be composted. Not only the bags and boxes, but literally everything. This keeps things simple for you, because all our packaging is now just as natural as the products inside. Your Dartmoor Sheepskin order will arrive in plain old-fashioned brown paper and be addressed simply. Upon opening you will see a … Read more
Modern high performance sheepskin combines the exothermic properties of wool with the hydroscopic quality of each individual wool fiber. The resultant fabric is as strong as leather, can absorb upto 30% of its own weight in water and can be washed and dried like a quality pair of jeans. Man made fabrics can’t absorb water … Read more