A strong rooted plant with rich leafy greens and tiny yellow flowers, madder has been a staple source of dye colour for thousands of years. The plant contains alizarin - an organic compound that produces a prominent red known historically as one of the most valuable colours known to man.
These words reflect Herd's core values - Local, Natural and Regenerative. We make our yarn and garments from field to finishing within...
Herd: Rebuilding the British wool industry
By Jessica Owens, in the World Textile Information Network, 23rd April 2021 Herd is championing British wool and knitwear and...
Spotlight on natural dyes for Earth Day 2021 🌍
Our Earth Day initiative for this year is to spotlight our naturally dyed yarn - a process which we have...
Rosanna Falconer looks ahead to Sustainability in 2021 for Eco-Age
Precious raw materials: seaweed and wool
So what - I hear you ask - is the connection between wool and seaweed? Well, as well as founding Herd I also run a wild, organic seaweed company called Atlantic Kitchen, which I founded in 2012.
The connection to me is completely natural - both are abundant, local, native raw materials that grow in perfect quality, seasonally, without inputs or cultivation. Both are brilliant sequesters of carbon, meaning their growth locks atmospheric carbon into the soil, or ocean bed or into the lustrous locks that become knitwear.
Counting Sheep by Philip Walling, pub. 2015
There's something that happens when we are told about something so perfect, so in alignment with everything that we could...
We shot the first Herd collection for A/W2020 in late September at Wyresdale Park in Lancashire, the spiritual home of...
I, Ruth, (hello) have spent the past two years deep in the worlds of sheep farming, fleece, wool, knitwear design,...
