Sheep Shearing & Wool Day

Find out more about sheep & wool

Wool made East Anglian rich for hundreds of year right up to about 1800. This was due to the wool and (later) the various cloth trades, which worked with wool. Yet sheep were also used for their skins (for clothes and to write on) for their horn (for nocks, handles, utensils, etc.) and for nourishment (for milk and meat).

On this day, the Farm will be illustrating these uses of wool. The stockman will illustrate the finer points of different breeds of sheep.

But more, as we shall be in the midst of shearing, will demonstrate this ancient skill (in both its modern application and as it was done by hand for thousands of years previously).

For what is done to make wool useful, we hope to have carders (who straighten the strands), spinners who spin the wool, dyers who dye it and weavers who weave.

Visitors who want to learn more about sheep or wool should find much to enlighten them this day.

For precisely what will be happening and on offer call the Kentwell Estate Office in the week before this day.