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Cultural Mediation: Why Makeloo Studio Does More Than Just Sell Yarn
If you only know Makeloo Studio as a spinning mill that processes and sells wool, you only know part of the company....
October 13, 2026A Small Lexicon of Wool: Essential Terms (and the "Worsted" Trap)
When you start to take a serious interest in wool, you quickly come across a lot of technical vocabulary. Here is a...
October 8, 2026Mulesing: Understanding an International Debate and Why It Doesn't Concern Our Quebec Wool
If you've heard of controversies surrounding the wool industry, it's highly likely that the word "mulesing" came up in conversation. It's a...
October 6, 2026Wool and microplastics: choosing a living fiber
Here's a statistic that deserves to be much more widely known than it currently is: a single 5-kilogram load of synthetic fabrics...
October 1, 2026UV Protection and Odor Resistance: Wool's Invisible Benefits
Beyond thermal regulation and fire resistance, wool still has a few tricks up its sleeve—properties that are rarely consciously noticed, but which...
September 29, 2026Why batch size changes everything (economies of scale)
Here's a simple, almost intuitive principle once you understand it, yet it has significant consequences for the final price of a local...
September 24, 2026From SENC to Inc.: Why Structuring a Business Changes Everything for a Spinning Mill
For most people who buy a skein in a shop, the legal structures of a business are an uninteresting administrative detail. However,...
September 22, 2026Certifications that matter: Canadian Wool Cooperative and Produced in Quebec
In a market where the word "local" is sometimes used a little too freely, certifications play an important role: they offer independent...
September 17, 2026Animal welfare explained: a global standard for a local fiber
When you buy a skein, a question often comes up, sometimes voiced aloud by your customers, sometimes simply present in the background:...
September 15, 2026Biodegradable: wool returns to the earth
There's something deeply reassuring about knowing that the material you work with, day after day, will never become eternal waste. Yet, this...
September 12, 2026Promoting local fleeces in a circular economy project
How to transform an underused fleece into a sustainable product: diagnosis, outlets, processing, evidence and circularity indicators.
September 10, 2026Fire resistance: a little-known natural property
Here's a property of wool that few people know, yet it radically distinguishes it from most synthetic fibers used in furnishings and...