Wool harvest time

OUR FAMILY business is based around a breeding herd of about one hundred alpacas, and the manufacture of British alpaca yarns for knitting, crochet and weaving. Classical MileEnd Alpacas is the animal

IT HAS BEEN a funny old month. Towering triumphs and crashing disasters. I am trying, like the poet says, to face them both the same, as both are temporary and both will pass. Let’s start with the goo

Megan Allen looks at the fascinating past and present of Britain’s wool towns

Corn-dolly crafter Colette Hughes describes the bleak situations our ancestors faced. “Imagine,” she says. “It’s winter and your family is hungry and cold. It gets dark early, fresh food is in short s

Kate Sharp is passionate about Shetland sheep and their wool, as Kate Chapman finds out

Claire Turner used to be an international model. Now, she has her own fashion range, handcrafted from the plush fleeces of alpacas on her New Forest smallholding