WOOL | SCOURING AND CARDING
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2022
- In October I visited the Haworth Scouring Co in Bradford to see how they process wool purchased from the British Wool board.
I hope you enjoy this little behind the scenes look.
Cammy
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I’m 31 years old and I’m a sheep farmer from Ayrshire in South West Scotland, which is why I have such a strong accent! I was born and raised on a sheep farm watching my dad who was the shepherd.
At 18 I went away from farming to work in the city (something I still do) and at 23 (2013) I decided I wanted to do something for some extra money so I went on a sheep shearing course. The hardest thing I’ll ever do was learning to shear sheep. [shudders thinking about it]
I shore whilst on my holidays from work for 2 years and then in 2015 my dad died so I decided to get my own sheep so I could continue working with sheep as it was something I loved doing. From there it escalated quickly from my first 4 sheep in my mum’s garden to now running around 600 breeding ewes.
I shore over 15,000 sheep this season in UK and I also travel to Norway for shearing in March and September. (Covid messed it up this year)
A few years ago I bought myself a sheep pregnancy scanner and have been building up my run since then.
I watched a few farm vlogs on TH-cam and decided I could have a go and now here we are!
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You know most people look at this and think cool but until you have sat down and tried to do it by hand you don't have any idea how amazing this process is. My wife and I spin our own wool from our Shetland flock and to just clean one Fleece takes a couple of days before you even get to carding and Combining. So by the time we have turned it into a product like a hat or scarf we have weeks of work put in to it and this facility just cuts it down to just a couple of hours it just boggles the mind
Amazing commitment! Such a tough art to master as well!
Totally agree. I have my bachelor's degree in Fine Arts and if I hadn't majored in Ceramics, my second choice would have been fibers. I remember just carding and washing wool in one of our classes and it was so laborious. But also so rewarding.
I stopped processing most of my own fleeces precisely for this reason. I still process kid mohair and fleeces that are important to me, like rare/endangered breeds, etc. so much labor. However, I’d love to get some hoggett from Cammie and make a nice greasy yarn.
It is mind boggling, love seeing it. No wonder wool clothing was so valued in the past and everyone learnt how to mend because of the time put into processing it by hand.
@@vindeljay Good point , I have started mending and darning again as we learned in domestic science years ago. Are'nt these young folk marvellous, I am 83 and they restore my faith in humanity........
The only TH-camr that I always click like before I even watch….we know every video is going to be great 👍
I do too so I don’t forget. Haven’t seen a bad one yet.
Same here!
Thank you all 🥰🥰
I do the same! 🐑
Same here , he’s some lad never stops working . ⭐️🐑
Brilliant video, can totally understand why wool is so expensive to buy.
Exactly Mary! So hard to get it to the end product!
A good woollen garment is basically an investment. It costs a lot upfront, but take good care of it and it will last for decades, and the cost per wear becomes much more reasonable.
As someone who has been knitting since I was a teen and dabbled in weaving, mostly with wool products, I was riveted to learn how the product goes from the sheep's back to my own handiwork.
Thanks Gary!
Who taught you to knit, Gary? How old were you, and why do you think it "took" with you? I was 8, and a Taiwanese nanny taught me to keep me occupied while she enjoyed playing with my baby sister. Never stopped knitting after that.
@@christinesbetterknitting4533 I was taught to knit by a soldier called " sunshine" , because of his lovely smile. We were three little sisters staying with Grandma at York racing stables, no races or horses there during the war, just soldiers. Mum could knit but she was working in a bank while Dad was in the RAF and school holidays saw us staying with Grandparents for weeks on end. And yes, they were working too......from home.
@@pammorrison7512
Lovey knitting history you have of your family ! 💟
Fascinating stuff. I love a good factory tour. It’s good to know what happens after the sheering is over. Thanks !
Loved this. 🙂It's one thing to know how to wash a fleece in your bathtub and pick it, fluff it, card it, spin it, but it's fantastic to see how it's been industrialized as well. I had my sewing business in an old textile mill (albeit the cotton mill, not the wool mill) and just the history of the building was as interesting as the history of the clothing I was making.
@thepeanutgallert1699 do you still have ypur sewing business.
@@jjohnsengraciesmom No. I had a regular job too that had me traveling and living out of hotels for 6 months at a time... kind of hard to run it from afar. 😛
heads up to our ancestors who used to do all this by hand and then invented machines to do the job. Bring back our textile industry.
We need to find more uses for British wool so that hopefully the producer at least breaks even and hopefully a little extra. A good insight into what goes on and I learnt quite a lot. Before wool was just wool and had to be sold to the wool marketing board. Well done to all concerned in making this.
Well Cammy I got to say that is a super clip to watch. 👍
Great to see the process which wool goes through aye! One heck of a journey once it’s removed from the sheep. 👍
I'm fascinated by the process from lamb to cleaned wool bump. Next up: how it is dyed and twisted into usable yarn. Also, it would be nice to see the anatomy of the wool fiber and how wool is felted.
I’ll maybe do one on Harris tweed soon!
Super documentary, informative, and not covered up with the typical horrible, irritating music. Thank you
People who invented these machines are priceless...
What intelligence.
Genius ...
This is one of a kind series Cammy. I can’t get over the time you have taken to educate us further on all things “sheep” related. This has been taking us from beginning of the product through to the end. Once again Cammy thank you for your hard work and passing on your love of sheep. Can’t wait for lambing start!
As someone who loves to knit, watching this is fantastic, thank you for sharing with us!
Wow, I had no idea how this worked. Thank you so much for taking us on these tours.
Somebody had to think and engineer this process, totally cool! Excellent video!
I love that you take us through the processes that we wouldn't normally get to see. Such a difference than when the ladies carded and spun the wool by hand. Fascinating stuff. Thanks Cammy!
Awww Mate this has got to be one of your best blogs by far. I can’t thank you enough for educating all of us on the process. From birth, to grazing, to shearing, to the wool process. I’m awe struck. Thank you Cammy and Liz.
Thanks Karen!
As someone who works with wool ( batting for quilts mostly), I really appreciate the entire process, thanks so much for taking the time to share it. 👍👍👍❤️🐑
I use lanolin on my dry feet. Once a week I apply a thick layer after soaking my feet, then wear socks overnight as it does a job softening the hard skin. Also good for putting on my hands after gardening.
This is absolutely amazing video on how wool is processed. Thank you for filming this Cammy. This is wotbhy of an educational award. I can’t believe how many people are missing out by not subscribing to your channel. ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks so much Teresa! I was just delighted to get the chance to see it myself! Making a video for you guys was a bonus!
@@TheSheepGame I've NEVER seen any info on wool processing & I'm amazed 😮😊
I just subscribed 😊
Well done Cammy .glad to see New Zealand was mentioned a few times along the first wash machines made in NZ .thank you for the tours.🇳🇿👍👌🐑🐑
I was working there when the scouring machinery was installed when the company relocated from Haworth to Bradford in 1997. The New Zealand company that manufactured the machinery was at the cutting edge of wool scouring technology.
Great intuitive filming of the processing of the wool and your ability to connect with people and put them at ease makes for an excellent presentation.
Fascinating. All that fleecy goodness makes you just want to have a mountain of it to jump in. The tour was so informative. It just adds to my admiration of wool and the gift of being able to knit/use it in other products as well. Shetland wool is fabulous. Thank you again for a great video.
Thanks Donna! Glad you enjoyed it!
I love your enthusiasm. Nice to see where the wool goes.
We all need to agree that cammy is the best youtuber🐑🐑😂😂
Not a fan of being include in the We all. I watch a few utubers Camy is good but the best ! Not sure the " Best " is the best word ! The few I watch are all good or I wouldn't watch them. They all do it differently, it's like saying a mom has a favorite child !
@@mea3665 I totally disagree with you
@@mea3665 Tom Pepperton’s channel is pretty good to be honest but I’ve got Sheeps so
@@mea3665 u just don't know a good youtuber when you see 1 cammy is the best youtuber
Yes, his content is INTERESTING. And sometimes funny.
Member of East Central Scotland Guild of Weavers Spinners and Dyers here. Absolutely fascinating to watch this familiar process done on a really big scale! Thank you for making this video, much appreciated.
Hey Bud! Nice video! But I thought you said a scone factory.. I like scones🤷♂️
😂😂 we love scones here too bro! 🤣
I heard the same thing MHT! It's an American 'ear' eeh? Love scones and it is hard to find a good one on this side of the pond! Cheers!
Absolutely brilliant series Cammy and thank you so, so much for all your hard work in putting all of this together for us. 🙏 👍
Very interesting and cool to see what happens after shearing the sheep, Cammie. Much more goes into it than is known, for sure, and accounts for the pricing. Thank you for this!!
Wool's always been great! The greatest part about it is how many people it employs - from the shepherd/ shearers, and wool handlers, to the incredible sorters like Richard (who DEFINITELY needs his own channel) to the plant workers in the warehouse and the scouring plant. I'm an even bigger wool cheerleader now
Big thanks to Haworth for allowing you to film all that! As someone who does her scouring in a 40litre bucket in the bathroom, and uses old towels and sunshine to get it dry.... it's amazing to see the machines handling such quantities of wool. After having been warned of the dangers of felting due to the water being too hot or agitating the wool too much, it's surprising to see the wool being thrown and blown around so vigorously. But I like the way it's moved through the washes and rinses, by the bars with fingers going just under the water.
Great stuff, Cammy, thank you so much, and please do keep it coming!
Thanks so much for this entire video. I always wondered how the wool became yarn, besides by the hand method of carding and spinning. The Sheep Game videos are educational, informative and fun!
Incredibly neat to see the process!
Your factory tour videos are always really fascinating. It's like an in-depth How It's Made episode which I 100% mean as a compliment!
Thanks Brandi!
Thank you sooo much Cammy! When I was in grade 5 the class had a chance to visit a farm where we picked out own bit of wool, carded it, washed it and actually chose natural materials for dieing....I chose onion peel which made the most pretty yellow wool....we even got to pull and twist to make our own little skein! Ever since I've been interested in the wool industry.....well the history...can you imagine doing all that by hand once upon a time! Thank you again Cammy for that amazing tour! God love ya! Oh yes I was wondering what they do with all the wool that flies around different places inside and outside? There was so much of it on all the machines and ground!
What an excellent vid!!! Sharing it my friends! Saving it to a playlist! I have hand washed, carded, hand spun, and woven the yarns, felted wool, knitted and crocheted the yarns into tapestries, clothing, pillows, blankets, and toys as well as art sculptures. I love wool!🦌💌❤️🐑🪡🧶🧣🧤🧦
Thanks so much and that’s amazing you have done so much!
In fact, our coats, suits, dresses and much more made from wool begin at such enterprises. Very interesting place!
I'm sitting here knitting away and watching your vid.
I concur with the people a little lower down, you are one of two youtubers I click like before I start watching. Love the videos, and the content.
Cammy, I say this every video, but you deserve a huge "WELL DONE" again, just brilliant! I can't wait to see how many products that are currently using wool, but how many processes and potential uses in the future. So I'm hoping you continue this series for us and I pray for people to open their eyes to this amazing opportunity of a natural resource! Thank you, Cammy and I know I can speak for many of us, that you're by far our favorite TH-camr. Cheers from Texas
Very interesting. Glad the machines do it now instead of manual ways!
It is good to see the wool industry alive and kicking in the UK. Others have remarked on the scale of the enterprise, but it is no surprise to me because I worked for 25 years in the Lancashire cotton industry until its demise. Every mill was organised on a similar scale to what we have seen here - when I first saw it in action, as a school leaver back in the 1950's my mind was blown at the scale of things. We don't have a cotton industry any more and I remember a remark by a workmate, when I was an apprentice and the cotton industry was fighting against cheap imports - he said that without a textile industry Britain would be unable to fight a war in the future. I often thought about that and it applies to the wool industry as well. we only need to think about all the uniforms required by the various government agencies - Army, RAF, Navy, police, firefighters, railways and just about anything else purchased on behalf of the nation. How can it be good for the nation as a whole when all these products have to be purchased abroad, but yet our home industry was allowed to wither on the vine.
What wonderful machines. My Great Grandma used to do all of that by hand. Right up to making yarn. Very hard work. Fascinating series Cammy, Thank you.
Excellent video, thanks.
Very educational Cammy. Thanks for taking us along❤
I love wool! It was so fun to see how it's done in a big factory. I have only seen wool processed on a smaller scale.
Cammy, you are a natural presenter, able to clearly get the detail out and explained to the viewer. Your star shines, and it wouldn’t surprise me if some Media channel gave you a job. A very personable chap .
Thanks Clair!! I’m gonna save that comment and put it in my CV 🥰
These numbers are astounding. Thank you for the tour.
This was so interesting!!! And just plain COOL! Leave it to you Cammy, to bring cool to wool 😊🐑💙✌️
Another fantastic video. The sheer (shear hehe) volume is staggering. Thanks for sharing this.
that was beyond fascinating! now I know where my little flocks wool goes through to come back as roving! I must say I would have tried to sneak out with one of those bumps of wool under my jacket, looked delicious for hand spinning!
You and me both (about sneaking out some of that roving)
This is so cool, I love that you were able to show the whole process! I have seen videos on doing this all by hand and wondered what it looked like in a larger scale operation. I also love that they try to have as little waste as possible! Thank you for making videos like this!
I am a great fan of wool, an amazing versatile textile. So wonderful to see part of the wool industry still happening in Bradford. I have been a knitter since I was first taught as a child and always like to work with wool rather than man made textiles.
Amazing stuff. To see all the process and know what has to be done. Thank you Camie, it's never to late to learn and it makes or helps you appreciate something much, much more.
Blessings to Lizzie, Jock and you 🙏🕊💜🕊🌹
Thanks Gail!
Very cool. Count me in with the Americans heard 'scone' not 'scouring' last time. Makes much more sense! We find your accent utterly charming, so don't change a thing! ;) Web search says that scouring temp is 60-65 C/ 140-149F to melt the grease in the initial steps. I'd like to see the processing of wool for insulation to be used in homes, too, which ought to be the next big trend imo. Keep up the good work. Puppy update soon too please.
😂 cheers Eileen! Pup update coming soon! 😆
I still have sone Scotland wool, sweaters, a blanket, and yardage, bought in the 1980's and Stored deep in a cedar chest - in San Diego, CA there is little need for really warm clothes. But the blanket we use often, and I treasure it all.
🙏 Thank You 👍 I am a Knitter, crochet 🧶 appreciate this video, awesome work, 👀 I'll enjoy knitting now more than ever🙏
An excellent series on processing wool. Keep up the good work! From North Berwick, Maine, USA
Thanks Elizabeth and so amazing that there is a North Berwick in USA!!
Yes, I discovered there is one in Scotland quite by accident. I used to keep a small flock of sheep back in the 80s here in Maine. I never got to see the process my wool went through to morf into the wool I used to sell/use, so I find this, and all your videos extremely informative. Your countryside is quite like Maine, which I suppose is why a lot of people from Scotland choose to settle here. (I have Scottish ancestors.)
Great video! My mom and Aunt use to say how much they hated sheep shearing time as it was their job to card and clean the wool with their mom so the wool could be used for knitted socks, sweaters and filling for mattresses. I can now appreciate what they were talking about after seeing the process in the factory. What a wonderful durable product the end result is. God bless those in that factory that bring us this wonderful fibre! It was incredible to see the process it goes through to obtain the finished product. I really hope that we start using wool more frequently as I really miss the longevity it has and what a natural fibre gives us compared to synthetic. Thank you Cammy for this wonderful video and thanks to all the people that allowed us to see how wool is handled and processed and the incredible work and expertise it takes to get such a wonderful finished product.
This was absolutely fascinating!!
How I'd love to get some of those bumps ready for spinning. 💘 Scotland 🇺🇸
Me too!
I’ve become quite wool obsessed and have been trying to spin my own- my gosh, is it hard when you first start and takes forever. This is amazing. When you think that children used to be employed in fiber mills (or textile factories) - and leches were used to keep their eyesight from being damaged by all the fiber flying through the air - to how things are done today… just wow
Very interesting process! Thank you for showing this to us. ☃️❄️💚🙃
Always a great production
50 yrs ago I worked in a Bradford Mill and it was so much more labour intensive then what is shown here, especially the initial blending which was done totally by hand. Scouring was so steamy hot and smelly
Wow Thank you Cammy this was so exciting to see how its done 😮
Thank you so much for taking us on this fantastic tour. I have always been fascinated at the complete wool process from shear to fabric. It has to be on of the most interesting manufacturing processes. To think the same basic mechanisms in processing has not changed in thousands of years, just the automated machining processing in modern times.
Regards from South Africa
Wowowowow! Top level educational brilliance in this one. This is better than any How Is It Made nonsense.
That was awesome!!! My knitting needles were quivering the entire time.
As someone who takes about one Shetland fleece per year and processes it by hand, this is incredible to watch!
Cameron, this has been so interesting! Thank you for showing all of us👍🤗
I really love these videos that show the whole journey from sheep to products. Fantastic.
Thank you for the wool processing videos. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Good thing you added the text boxes, I couldn’t understand the gentleman showing you the washing process.
I was wary of that so thought I should highlight the key points! 😆
Thanks Rebecca! 👍
Great content! Love learning about the whole process of getting wool to end users.
LOVED THIS!
It was educational, a bit enlightening and a very decent tour.
I was delighted they let you in and allowed you to get so up close & personal with the product & equipment at all the stages.
Thank you to you & those that showed you around, explained, and indulged us with some information and education!
Thanks for the kind comment and it was great of them to let me look around!
Great to see from birth to death the product system. Great vlog
Thanks for your wonderful video, I would never get to see this amazing wool process with you. Just love the sheep to wool factory. Keep up the great work.🇨🇦
This was great! Thank you for putting these tours together for us. When I was a child, I used to watch my granny card wool by hand with paddles. It was fascinating then and its fascinating now. Brilliant!👍
What a supeb videop once again Cammy, to see the full wool process was unreal and just to see how much works is needed in that industry to get the end result was unreal.
Fabulous. That was so interesting. I want to see the lanolin production now though. So get yer sen back down to Bradford. 😄
Really, really interesting. Thanks, Cammie. (I think my mother who is in her later nineties and who has been knitting wool socks for most of her life has single-handedly supported wool industry. Lol) And it's wonderful that so many by-products of the wool are used.
These videos are just brilliant, Cammy. So informative and interesting! As someone who has done many different types of fiber crafts, this series on wool has been especially fascinating. Would love to see other series on down line sheep products! Lanolin processing would be very interesting.
Brilliant video. I am a spinner and weaver, love to see the process before the fibre is
bought by me. Love to see all your videos. Thanks so much for doing them
Thanks for sharing Cammy.
Added to my viewing list, and have already started questions for my "production systems" course this summer based on this video. Atta boy Cammy, help me make new engineers!!!
Thanks Colleen😂
This is pretty cool. I haven't seen anybody that is willing to flesh out their trade in such detail.
Fascinating watching . Often wondered where all the wool went and how it was processed. This was so interesting.
Many thanks for this
This was such an amazing educational video, thank you Cammie for taking the time to video and edit. The plant operation was mind boggling. It is truly incredible to see how much is involved in processing the wool. 👍👍👏👏🥰
That was an awesome vlog! Thanks so much for sharing 🙏
What a fabulous video!!!. I kept saying WOW to myself---since you weren't here--- They made it look so easy and the end produce so lovely. This is a must video. I feel pity for my ancestors and the work they had to to do. Thank You, Thank You for the series.
This was SOOOO COOL! Thanks for taking us along!
Thanks Cammy for showing us this process, very interesting. I appreciate your time and the company for allowing you to film the whole operation.
this brings back memories, my first job I had was at feltex yarns in new Zealand as a carding machine operator in a bumb top plant.
Now I know why wood things are so expensive with that much machinery and time. It is amazing how it cleans it so well thanks Cammy
That was really interesting. The lanolin part especially, While travelling I bought a 100% wool jumper very rough but I love it. (I never have it next to my skin, I have merino for that!), the amount of lanolin still in it made it almost wipe clean and when I hand wash it I have special wool wash with lanolin in to keep the 'waterproof' ness. But I have a friend that can't wear wool at all as she is allergic to lanolin so even with all the washing there seems to be enough lanolin still in the wool to set her off.
This was so interesting. Can understand why wool is expensive, but then again there is no other fibre that matches it!
That was amazing Cammy, thank you.
Fascinating. Thank you so much for showing us this side of the wool industry.
That was superb. I was so excited as you went from machine to machine. Thanks Cammy. Excellent video 🌻
Wow, I enjoyed watching this process
This is brilliant. Thank you Cammy and everyone in the video for sharing this process.