It’s such an amazing story . . .
In a vertical wool operation, a single business takes ownership of the wool for the entire process, from farm to retail.
A Bear Creek Felting Kit is made fully within the state of North Dakota. This is actually quite a feat in today’s textile environment, where few businesses take ownership from raw wool to retail.
Bear Creek’s pipeline begins on the farm. The wool goes to be washed, carded and dyed 18 miles from the farm in Nome. The team at Shepherd Industries then assembles the kits and ships them directly from the mill in Nome. Because of this, Bear Creek can offer an unsurpassable level of transparency: the wool can be tracked back to the sheep who grew it.
This traceability is incredibly important: most brands cannot offer this level of detail. But if you care about where your wool comes from, how it was processed and under what conditions, you’ll want to choose to purchase from businesses that can offer traceability.
— https://bearcreekfelting.com/
