This is an extremely fine wool wadding weighted at 75GSM. It is perfect for use in lightweight projects, such as interlining for garments and ultra-lightweight insulated garments or summer quilts and any projects which requires a slim, fine wadding. But really, the sky is the limit with this wool so we encourage you to use your imagination and get creative! When you’ve been busy crafting and creating, do send us some photos. We love seeing your creations! For a sample pack, please contact us.
Why is wool a good material to use for projects and crafting?
Wool is fantastic for using for projects and crafting. It is the warmest and most environmentally-friendly type of wadding you can use.
The wool in this wadding is washed which smooths the wool fibres making them more pleasant to the touch and to work with. Although this wadding is lightweight, fine and malleable, wool is a strong fibre which ensures the wadding doesn’t beard or migrate as you work with it. In fact, wool fibres are able to resist tearing and are able to be bent back on themselves over 20,000 times without breaking (basically, it is very forgiving when working with it!).
Wool is a great material for wadding in quilts and coats because of lots of naturally occurring properties. One of its main properties is that it is hygroscopic. This means that as the humidity of the surrounding air rises and falls, the fibre absorbs and releases water vapour. Heat is generated and retained during the absorption phase, which makes wool multi-climatic and trans-seasonal. When it needs to be, it is a natural insulator, reacting to changes in body temperature. This capacity to absorb and release moisture also makes it naturally breathable and odour resistant (releasing sweat into the air before bacteria has a chance to develop and produce unpleasant body odour). As we mentioned earlier, wool is also a very resilient which means when using it in garments and blankets, compared to synthetic alternatives it is able to retain its shape in the long term without wrinkling or sagging. You can read more about the properties of wool on the Campaign for Wool website.
Can I wash this product?
Unlike some other quilting waddings, our range has not undergone any artificial processing such as chlorination, acid stripping or plastic coating which is often used in the production of ‘superwash’ and machine washable wool.
We do not recommend that you wash this wadding before use. If you really want to wash your wadding or finished hand-made item and avoid vintage-style puckering then you can try gentle hand washing in 20 degrees centigrade and then air dry on a flat surface. However, this can in some instances stretch out the fibres and cause some areas of uneven thickness.
Do you have other types of wool wadding?
Yes we do! We've got some lovely stuff that we haven't got around to listing yet, eg 150gsm, 450gsm, and some gorgeous thick Alpaca wadding or batting, so if you're looking for something and can't see it listed, email us at info@chimneysheep.co.uk
What can this wool wadding be used for?
This is an extremely fine wool wadding weighted at 75GSM. It is perfect for use in lightweight projects, such as interlining for garments and ultra-lightweight insulated garments or summer quilts and any projects which requires a slim, fine wadding. But really, the sky is the limit with this wool so we encourage you to use your imagination and get creative! When you’ve been busy crafting and creating, do send us some photos. We love seeing your creations! For a sample pack, please contact us.
Why is wool a good material to use for projects and crafting?
Wool is fantastic for using for projects and crafting. It is the warmest and most environmentally-friendly type of wadding you can use.
The wool in this wadding is washed which smooths the wool fibres making them more pleasant to the touch and to work with. Although this wadding is lightweight, fine and malleable, wool is a strong fibre which ensures the wadding doesn’t beard or migrate as you work with it. In fact, wool fibres are able to resist tearing and are able to be bent back on themselves over 20,000 times without breaking (basically, it is very forgiving when working with it!).
Wool is a great material for wadding in quilts and coats because of lots of naturally occurring properties. One of its main properties is that it is hygroscopic. This means that as the humidity of the surrounding air rises and falls, the fibre absorbs and releases water vapour. Heat is generated and retained during the absorption phase, which makes wool multi-climatic and trans-seasonal. When it needs to be, it is a natural insulator, reacting to changes in body temperature. This capacity to absorb and release moisture also makes it naturally breathable and odour resistant (releasing sweat into the air before bacteria has a chance to develop and produce unpleasant body odour). As we mentioned earlier, wool is also a very resilient which means when using it in garments and blankets, compared to synthetic alternatives it is able to retain its shape in the long term without wrinkling or sagging. You can read more about the properties of wool on the Campaign for Wool website.
Can I wash this product?
Unlike some other quilting waddings, our range has not undergone any artificial processing such as chlorination, acid stripping or plastic coating which is often used in the production of ‘superwash’ and machine washable wool.
We do not recommend that you wash this wadding before use. If you really want to wash your wadding or finished hand-made item and avoid vintage-style puckering then you can try gentle hand washing in 20 degrees centigrade and then air dry on a flat surface. However, this can in some instances stretch out the fibres and cause some areas of uneven thickness.
Do you have other types of wool wadding?
Yes we do! We've got some lovely stuff that we haven't got around to listing yet, eg 150gsm, 450gsm, and some gorgeous thick Alpaca wadding or batting, so if you're looking for something and can't see it listed, email us at info@chimneysheep.co.uk
Fine Wool Wadding 75GSM
3 reviews
UK Wool
Sustainable
Our 100% British wool wadding is our finest wadding product at just 5mm in thickness and 1.5m wide. Lightweight and luxurious, this high-quality wadding is a perfect eco-friendly choice for interlinings in clothes, and even super light quilts. The wool naturally insulates and is also breathable, moisture wicking and odour resistant, making it both a practical and environmentally positive choice in making children’s clothes as well as adult garments, accessories and fine quilts.
This wadding can be used for hand and machine sewing and quilting.
Please note: this wadding is sold in linear metres and is 1.5 metres wide (this is a wider than most similar wadding-types on the market).
£13.50
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A Chimney Sheep® draught excluder is a brilliant tool for any property with an open chimney. But don’t just take our word for it...
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Eco Friendly Weed Control
I bought this as I wanted a non-plastic weed suppressant to use under stones and bark and this is ideal as it can be bought by the metre rather than having to buy far more than I need (though it does make it more expensive per metre). It is easy to use and I'm really pleased that it is a natural material with no plastic. I'm wondering how long it will last before it needs replacing, but for now, I'm really pleased with my purchase.
I ordered two of the 10kg...in error! There's a massive amount of wool in each bag and, to my mind, it's quite clean. It's very thick and has a high amount of lanolin in it, a good sign.
I placed it around my runner beans and French climbing beans. The wool provides support when it's windy. Round the tomatoes, the courgettes and...the potatoes. They thrive on it.
Important: the will deters slugs etc, but my advice is that it's essential to keep the wool moist. Not sodden, as the wool is superb at preventing the soil drying out.
Well worth it.
Delivery box was a bit battered on arrival so feared for the pots, but the sheep's wool had kept them safe. Brilliant non plastic option to keep seedlings watered without wasting water and the wool works to keep slugs at bay.
Bought these as the fluffy inside lining of my slippers had worn down to the rubber! I hate waste and didn’t want to throw them away as they were in otherwise good condition, so I bought these and popped them in and now I have warm and comfy insides to my slippers again - Hurrah!! Slipper life extended and waste reduced. Very glad to have found this company 😊.
We have an open fire that is only used a few times a year but don't want to decommission it.
When not in use there is a noticeable draft that comes down the chimney this includes the smell from our neighbours log burner when the wind blows the wrong way.
Enter stage left the Chimney Sheep. I measured up the chimney aperture and placed my order. Despite Royal Mails best efforts it arrived well packed and in good order.
It's a neat product and having attached the handle shoved it up the chimney. Perfect fit. Can't be that easy surely? Yep.
There is a fob that attaches to the handle that dangles down from the chimney so that you are reminded that the Chimney Sheep is in situ before lighting a fire.
I can't comment on the draught excluding properties yet as the weather has been glorious since I got it, but I see no reason it won't be effective. I no longer have to listen to the pigeons serenading each other though.
My first purchase of three ply…I will buy more….this is good stuff….does the job….soft enough…AND made in uk from uk waste paper…this is important if you are thinking green….no point buying recycled paper which has been round the world and back. We have loads of waste paper to use in the uk and loads of uk bottoms to wipe 😂
Amazing felt, thick and really good quality. Worked amazing by for my art project. I love both the colour and the texture! Excellent delivery and costumer service.
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