Izzy Lane and the Unique Sheep Sanctuary of Scotland

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:27:04 GMT

clipped by: urbanlife
clipper's remarks: Isobel Davies loves sheep - she created a Sheep Sanctuary in Scotland after she found that many sheep were sent to slaughter for various reasons from being male to being lame.

She also discovered that farmers were burning the wool sheared from their sheep rather than selling it to manufacturers in other industries. Because 80 percent of the wool used in Britain’s clothing industry was imported, the native farmers couldn’t compete with the low prices—it would actually cost them more to properly shear and sell the wool than it would to just hack it off and burn it.

Davies decided to create an economic model that would preserve the sheep AND support the British clothing industry.

She created Izzy Lane Sheep-Friendly Clothing!

Clip Source: www.izzylane.com

Our flock of Wensleydale and Shetland sheep comprise mainly of animals that would have been sent to slaughter for being male, missing a pregnancy, being a little lame, being too small, being too old

We pay equal and better prices to save them. They are living out happy lives in our Sheep Sanctuary

I combine my passions for great clothes, animals and Britain.

I learned that about 80% of the wool that we use in this country is imported, predominantly from Australia and New Zealand

When I began my research in 2002 and saved my first 4 ‘butcher lambs’, I also discovered that our textile industry was on its knees

Our cloth is woven at an ancient mill in Selkirk using Victorian machinery that has been operating for over a hundred years.

Our knitwear is made with the lustrous, kemp-free fleece of the Wensleydale sheep, an endangered breed, numbering around 1800 in the world

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Izzy Lane, brainchild of Isobel Davies

Sheep Sanctuary in Scotland

Tags: sheep, lamb, scotland, britain, knit, textile industry, mill

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Izzy Lane and the Unique Sheep Sanctuary of Scotland