Nonwoven Campine wool

Needled wool from Campine Heathsheep in the natural colour. The fleece is approximately 20 mm thick and has a pleasant light touch. It can be used as an inbetween layer, the wadding of e.g. plaids. Because of the good noise absorbing properties of wool it could also be used as a room divider etc.

The Campine Heathsheep are mainly kept in the Dutch-Belgian border region where they are used for grazing the heaths which (due to excessive nitrogen deposition) are in danger of becoming overgrown with grass. Thus, these sheep, which live more or less free in the wild for much of the year, help restore biodiversity.
This needlefelt can be called a local production. The sheep are kept in the moors behind our office, both washing the wool and further processing are done within a distance of a hundred kilometres.

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Origin of the wool

The race that supplied this wool has been kept for centuries in the Campine heaths, a border area situated in Belgium and the Netherlands. Traditionally these heath sheep were important as 'suppliers' of meat, wool and (not unimportant for these poor sandy soils) manure. The wool quality is good and fine enough to make beautiful textiles from it, maybe because in the 19th century crossbreeding with merino sheep was experimented with. Nowadays the Campine heath sheep are mainly used for grazing the heaths, which are increasingly suffering from grasses. Thanks to the grazing, these sheep contribute to the restoration of biodiversity.