A Wool Lab with a difference; exploring, enabling new textile development, traditional crafts, sharing of skills, education and inspiration to build a resilient wool industry - not only for textiles.
Education and inspiration from soil
health to fibre to land restoration.
"healthy soil = healthy land and food = healthy sheep = healthy wool"
What we do...
Innovation and R&D including new materials and processing
Workshops and Education for Consumers, Industry, Schools and Universities
Shop selling items from artisans locally, nationally and internationally
Processing raw to clean wool
Hire of machinery and equipment
Guidance for Scouring
The past couple of months we have had an increase of wool washing. So far in 2026 we have washed 104kgs. This is the main basis of the business as we offer 2 forms of scouring:
- Circular scouring where wool is processed using less water, energy and chemicals takes around 6 weeks to wash for the first batch
- Reduction of resources, still no chemicals used
An increase of scouring (washing wool) requests has led to this list of tips to ensure your wool is scoured/washed well:
1. Ensure your wool is dry during shearing, a full fleece, not Swiss cheese fleece and minimal plant and dirt waste within the wool.
2. The wool is not older than 5 months old
3. Been stored in a dry location and not in a plastic garbage bags
4. Is moth, mice, parasite and felt free.
5. Helpful to know the breed of the wool, how healthy is the wool and land that the sheep feed from
6. What is the end use or application is for the wool
7. Do you need the wool to be carded? or felted?
8. How many kilos?
9. Do you have any questions for me? Heb jij en vraag voor mij?
Happy to assist your scouring/washing needs. Whether it is 2kgs - 400kg we can scour your wool.
Ensuring that the right wool is used for the right job!
Workshop spotlight
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3 hr
From 50 euros
Questions, News and tips
As from 18/02/2026 the cost of Gas and Electricity has increased thus we need to increase our costs for scouring and also drying by 2.50 per kilo.
Sometimes fleeces have become felted which means they cannot always be scoured/washed. Your waste will be charged at 2,50 per kilo and will be returned to you or we charge for disposal of 3.50 on your behalf. You will be notified how much wool was wasted.
At the moment there a 3 week waiting time for wool to be washed as of the 10/03/2026.
We look forward in continuing to work with you.
Sincere
Woolly wishes x
