Testing & Performance
ABRASION: Wyzenbeek – 102,000 Double Rubs / Heavy Duty
Flammability: Passes NFPA 260 / UFAC

Notes
Pure Wool is created in an ISO9001 environmentally friendly mill. We use natural gas with low fume emission. Our Ciba Dyes* are free of heavy metals and all waste materials are separated to be re-cycled.

Wool is the ultimate renewable, grown on sheep which tend not to be intensively reared. Unlike some of the natural fibres that are grown in soil (cotton jute etc), chemicals are not used to help “force” the growing cycle, nor are they fed antibiotics like poultry or cattle. They are generally grass fed.
Sheep do however get dipped annually in a mild insecticide, to ensure that ticks etc do not cause disease in the flock.

Wool is both biodegradable and recyclable.

We dye and finish Pure Wool on the borders of Scotland using dyes and chemicals that are approved and non-hazardous. In fact, the effluent from our finisher is so pure that it ends up being discharged into the river Tweed, one of Scotland’s finest salmon fishing rivers. We do not add moth proof treatment, which is hazardous to the environment -- as well as to the moths.

*Ciba Dyes: These dry powder dyes are the easiest of the acidic dyes to work with. They are very concentrated, mixable, and have good lightfastness and washfastness on wool, alpaca, mohair, nylon, and silk.