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Download Our Coloured Sheep and Fleece Directory 2021 For quality sheep, fleece and much more… Coloured Sheep and Fleece Directory 2020 1st Edition Shepherds and skilled crafters who share an enthusiasm for sheep of all the natural hues 1 Contents Page Editor’s Notes 5 Members - Listings: Alphabetical 6 - 16 By Region 20 By sheep breeds and crosses 24 - 26 Services Offered 28- 29 Advertisers: Annie Brown Needle felting 41 Beilidu Flock of Manx Loaghtans 21 Brechfa Farm 18 Classic Carder 49 Cotswold Woollen Weavers 52 Curlew Weavers 21 Cwmchwefru Wool 17 Dales’ Looms 43 George Weil 22 Gorgeous Yarns 47 Handweavers Studio 23 Hedgehog Equipment 18 Higher Bridge Romneys 19 Hilltop Spinning 44 2 Contents continued... Page Home Farm Wensleydales 40 27 Jeanie Bags 37 Pocket House Studio 48 Prouse D. P. 29 Quality Fleeces 17 Shadowland Coloured Ryelands 39 Sheepfold 49 Shepherd’s Delight 45 The Nutwood Collection 36 The Spinning Barn at Spotted Pig Farm 27 Trevayne Farm 42 Unreweleez 46 Willo Fibres 35 Witney Blanket Hall 38 Woolaston’s Woolly Wonders 35 Wychwood Spinner 19 BCSBA Information: BCSBA Contacts and Links 4 Regional shows calendar for 2020 30 - 34 Code of Practice: Selling wool to hand spinners 50 - 51 BCSBA Directory Copyright and DEADLINE 51 3 BCSBA Contacts and Links Chair Show Secretary NSA Representa- Diana Green Rhian Thomas tive Lesley Wick- Regional ham Vice Chair Coordinators Publications Lesley Wickham Scotland Debby Channing Ernie Strachan Membership IT Team (BCSBA South West Secretary website/Social Diana Green Diana Green Media) Wales Anna Reed Treasurer Lesley Wickham Keith Evans Rhian Thomas Debby Channing Contact details Reed Anna: felton.annaATgooglemail.com Channing Debby: debbyspinAToutlook.com Strachan Ernie: strachernATgmail.com Evans Keith: woofnwoolyATgmail.com Thomas Rhian: rhian_epikATyahoo.co.uk Green Diana: Wickham Lesley: diATmoorside.plus.com lesleyATlesleywickham.co.uk Deadline for the next Directory 15th March 2021 to be printed in time for the shows The views appearing in this newsletter are not necessarily those of the Management Committee or the Editor. Copyright © British Coloured Sheep Breeders’ Association. All rights reserved. 4 Hello... Welcome to our new or existing members and advertisers. For those of you who don’t know, our Association aims to promote col- oured sheep and their wool. As well as appreciating pure breed sheep, we also embrace the unique characteristics of cross breeds. We pro- mote coloured wool by sharing news and information using our website, newsletter to members and Facebook page. We also produce this Directory, listing members’ products and services along with paid adverts, both from members and non-members. The Directory has thirty six different sheep breeds listed and many different cross breeds (p.24-26). That offers a wonderful choice in sheep or fleeces! It is also worth noting that our members sell their wool according to the BCSBA Code of Practice (p.50-51). Our members also offer a wide range of services (p.28-29). The PDF Directory adverts each have a hyperlink to the adver- tiser’s online shop, so we are just one click away from browsing. Being a non -profit organisation, any money we raise is used to support us in promoting coloured sheep and their wool. This Directory PDF is made freely available on our website (bcsba.org.uk). Normally, the paper copy is sold along with members’ fleeces and woolly products on our show stands at the large fibre shows. However, this year, with the cancelation of fibre shows, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, only the PDF version of the Directory will be available for the public. With severe movement restrictions now in place, many of us are cooped up at home. Crafters are attempting to balance the current stresses of these uncertain times with the simple pleasure of making something. I hope you will join me by increasing your range of favourite suppliers and at the same time, you will be supporting coloured sheep and Don’t forget to tell their wool. our advertisers that you found them in Come and say ’Hi and ‘Like’ our page our Directory! British Coloured Sheep Breeders Association 5 BCSBA Directory List: Alphabetical B fleeces available in early June. Ball Philippa Region: Worces- Education: Rare breed open tershire, Tel: 01584 881244, farm, talks on rare breeds. Breeds of sheep kept: Badger Face Welsh Mountain (Torddu), Zwartbles, Blue Texel and Welsh Beilidu Manx Loaghtan Linda Mountain x Blue Texel. For sale/ Scott, Region: Powys, services: Breeding stock, fleeces Tel: 01874 636664 plus apples (During season). Email: enquiriesATbeilidu.co.uk Website: www.beilidu.co.uk Baylham House Rare Breeds Farm (Richard Storer) Region: Breeds of sheep kept: Manx Suffolk, Tel: 01473 830264 Loaghtan, Manx Loaghtan x Brecknock Hill Cheviot. Flock Email: prefix: Beilidu. For sale/services: richardATbaylham-house-farm.co.uk Fine fleeces, yarn (mill/hand spun). Hand spinning service. www.baylham-house-farm.co.uk Education: Craft related and https://www.facebook.com/ sheep keeping advice provided. BaylhamFarm Private spinning Tuition: £50 / day. https://twitter.com/Baylhamfarm? lang=en-gb https://www.instagram.com/ Blacker Sue Region: Cornwall baylhamfarm/ Tel: 07767 650119 Breeds of sheep kept: Llanwenog, Email: Balwen, Norfolk Horn, Grey Face sueblackerATwaitrose.com Dartmoor, Herdwick and Oues- sant. Stock prefix: Baylham. For Breeds of sheep kept: Gotland, sale/services: Breeding stock and Blue Faced Leicester (flock pre- Can’t find your name? If your name is not listed in this Directory, even though you’ve been there for years, it is probably because you did not let us know in writing that you wanted to be added. Contact: debbyspinAToutlook.com 6 Brechfa Farm Gillian Davies, Please Note Region: Pembrokeshire, Tel: 01437 563470 To avoid having emails targeted by spybots, we have replaced all Websites: ‘@’ with ‘AT’ https:// www.brechfafarmwelshblankets.co fix: Blacker sheep). For Sale Ser- m/ vices: Livestock and sheepskins, plus rams for hire. Education: http:// Demonstrations and talks about gillianosbandknitware.co.uk/ fleece assessment, value added Breeds of sheep kept: Pedigree opportunities. Poll Dorset, Dorset (coloured), Pedigree Black Welsh Mountain (pedigree). For sale/services: Border Bears Fleece plus breeding stock (ewe Region: Monmouthshire lambs and shearlings for all 3 flocks). Woven & hand crafted Tel: 01873 821205 throws & cushions, quality knit- Email: wear. borderbearsAThotmail.com Website: Brown Annie and Richard - www.olwenveevers.co.uk Annie Brown Needle Felting, Re- gion: Cambridgeshire, Breeds of sheep kept: Corriedale (coloured), Romney (coloured) Tel: 07515 525787 and their crosses. Email: For sale/services: Breeding stock annieATanniebrownneedlefelting.co.uk and fleeces. Pre-felt sheets, felt Website: bags, mats, tea cosies, needle felt animals and needle felt kits. Anniebrownneedlefelting.co.uk Education: Workshops and talks We have a wool only flock of on needle felting and keeping mostly rare breed sheep. I use sheep for wool. the wool in my work and have some of the wool for sale. I am a qualified teacher of Art and De- sign, with a background in Fine Art. Richard was born on a farm and has been a stockman all his life. Breeds of sheep kept: Kent Romeny, Lincoln Longwool, 7 Bowmont, Merino, Shetland, So- the Burnside flock of Boreray ay, Shetland x Bowmont Merino, sheep and Boreray mutton. Per- Lincoln Longwool x Bowmont Meri- sonalised farm visits and talk. no, Wensleydale x Lincoln Long- Come and meet the UK’s rarest wool, Wensleydale x Bowmont Meri- breed of sheep and learn about no, Wensleydale x Kent Romney, their 6000 year old history, with Shetland x Wensleydale. For sale/ focus on any topics of interest to services: Carded wool, felting pads, you. Opportunity to purchase needles, kits, fleeces, dyed and un- postcards, wool, horn and sheep- dyed wool, locks and wool slubs. Visits/attractions: Studio visits, work- skin products, when available. shop. Various needle felting cours- es, such as landscapes, brooches, cactus pin cushion, experimental workshop, Christmas decorations. Commissions undertaken. C Channing Debby Committee Burnside Borerays, Region: Member: IT and Publishing, Re- Orkney Tel: 01856 761331 gion: Cornwall, Email: Email: debbyspinAToutlook.com. BurnsideBoreraysATrunbox.com I am a spinner, weaver and dyer. Wool is my favourite fibre, with Website: http:// Shetland and Wensleydale fleec- www.orkneyboreray.com es at the top of my list. I also en- Breeds of sheep kept: Boreray. joy spinning and weaving other For sale/services: Boreray sheep traditional fibres, for example, flax for sale occasionally, normally and nettle. The more recently de- only within Orkney. Fleece & veloped fibres hold a certain sort knitting yarn for sale. For the of fascination for me, as who can latter, check Natural Fibre Com- resist silky rose fibre or the sur- pany website for pure Boreray prisingly cottony feel of seaweed. knitting yarn specified as from Spotted an Error or something not quite right? Then email: debbyspinAToutlook.com 8 Cotswold Woollen Weavers Cwmchwefru Wool (Lesley (Richard Martin) Wickham) Committee Member: Vice Chair, NSA Representative, Region: Gloucestershire Regional Co-ordinator for Wales. Tel: 01367 860660 Region: Carmarthenshire. Email: richardATnaturalbest.co.uk Email: www.cotswoldwoollenweavers.co. lesleyATlesleywickham.co.uk uk Website: www.lesleywickham.co.uk https://twitter.com/NewsCWW? lang=en-gb Breeds of sheep kept: over 30 years of cross-breeding for quality https://www.instagram.com/ and colour using native rare cotswoldwoollenweavers/ breeds plus merino, Bowmont, For sale/services: We own two Shetland, Icelandic, Ryeland, sheep because our visitors like to Corriedale, Wensleydale, Lincoln see them. We have been in busi- Longwool Gotland, and so now ness here in the English Cots- very mongrel but beautiful. For wolds for 35 years, and we design sale/services: Ewe lambs and and manufacture woollen cloth, tups often available. Meat, fleece throws, and blankets. We also and organically tanned sheep- make a range of garments, acces- skins. Double knit woollen yarn sories and interior textile products.
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