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Christine Jordan 02/06/2024 Christine Jordan 02/06/2024

1. So how did this come about?

From designer to shepherdess, how it all started.

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Christine Jordan 26/05/2024 Christine Jordan 26/05/2024

2. Meet our Valais Blacknose Sheep

The sheep, their names, and personalities!

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Christine Jordan 19/05/2024 Christine Jordan 19/05/2024

3. All About Herdwicks

Our second rare breed, Herdwicks.

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Christine Jordan 05/05/2024 Christine Jordan 05/05/2024

4. Springtime Tales

Lambing for dummies

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Christine Jordan 28/04/2024 Christine Jordan 28/04/2024

5. All About The Wool

How wool is grown, produced and wasted

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Christine Jordan 21/04/2024 Christine Jordan 21/04/2024

6. Wool Training

Wool School at Fernhill Farm Spring 2024

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Christine Jordan 14/04/2024 Christine Jordan 14/04/2024

7. Torrential rain & surprise twins

Spring sunshine returns after relentless rain and storms

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Christine Jordan 07/04/2024 Christine Jordan 07/04/2024

8. Dutch Wool Studio Visit

Textile wool studio visit in The Netherlands May 2024

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Christine Jordan 31/03/2024 Christine Jordan 31/03/2024

9. Valais Blacknose Twins!

Luna & Layla, their mum BoPeep JoJo is just out of shot, but staying close.

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Christine Jordan 29/03/2024 Christine Jordan 29/03/2024

10. Ram lambs to new homes

Little ram lambs moving in with the big boys for the winter

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Christine Jordan 02/03/2024 Christine Jordan 02/03/2024

11. What about Irish wool?

Wool in Ireland is mostly dumped or burned as a waste product. Why? How can this be prevented?

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Christine Jordan 01/02/2024 Christine Jordan 01/02/2024

12. Wool in Portugal - a once wool powerhouse

Portugal research trip into wool and cork industries reveals why these are in decline.

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Christine Jordan 31/01/2024 Christine Jordan 31/01/2024

12. Research trip to The Netherlands

An incredible second trip to The Netherlands - the farms, the studios and the landscape.

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Christine Jordan 01/01/2024 Christine Jordan 01/01/2024

13. Designing Wool Products

Designing wool products from concept to finished item.

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Nearly four years since I bought lambs to eat the grass around the house. These two girls arrived with their boofy hair and loveable natures. They needed their fringes tied up for the first few days until they got to know the place, and here they are
My grandmother’s brass topped perfume bottles and hand beaded pin cushion from 1924, with my dad’s cobalt blue glass oil lamp. Pink glass lamp junk shop €5 find. #eclecticinteriors #rainydayrearranging #autumnvibes🍁
The tiniest single day bed in the studio with the heaviest, most lush 160 year-old silk velvet brocade handmade curtains from Norway hanging in front. I love the contrast. The duvet is one made of wool and unbleached cotton that I made in Denmark ear
The October 2026 series of Saturday wool workshops includes hands-on sessions for crafting a light-diffusing lampshade on October 3rd, shaping a solid 3D sculpture on October 10th, and sculpting textured organic forms for cushions or art on October 1
The Barrow Navigation is much unknown in Ireland. A majestic 111 km inland waterway in Ireland that seamlessly blends natural river channels with 18th-century man-made canals, it is managed by Waterways Ireland. This historic corridor links the Grand
A poem I wrote during a creative writing workshop, encapsulating a moment in time in my studio. #rarebreedsheep #organicsheepfarming #irishwool #farmtofibre #feltingwool
The glorious result of home grown wool, sheared, skirted, washed, dried, picked and carded. #irishwool #organicwool #rarebreedsheep #valaisblacknosesheep #microfarm
A hand felted wool cushion made from my pedigree Swiss Valais Blacknose ewe Jojo’s fleece with beautiful details by @sewteadough of black lambs leather insert and ties, finished with beautiful heavy 100% pure linen on the reverse, has made its