Time
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (EST)
Session Type
Vendor
Level
For Everyone
Name
Solitude Wool Vendor Session
Description

Solitude Wool came into existence in 2006 when Gretchen Frederick and Sue Bundy, both shepherds of small flocks in Loudoun County, Virginia, discovered they were thinking about the same thing: make breed specific wool yarns from some of the many fleeces that were languishing or being thrown out by small farms we knew. 

We started very small and very slow, making the first two batches of yarn from the breeds we each raise: Romney and Karakul and then another from the first clip of a friend’s Leicester Longwood lambs. In the beginning Sue washed every fleece by hand and all our sales were at farmers markets in DC and Virginia. Now we are five partners!