FORGOTTEN FIBRE (2023) | Short Documentary revealing the forgotten potential of wool in textiles

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[@MarinaSkua]

I’m so honoured to be part of this, and it’s lovely to see those wintry days on the farms shown so beautifully. Well done chaps!

[@MrsKWheatley]

A beautiful film and you spoke so eloquently about our craft x

[@AmazingJane137]

Fabulous

[@christopherd.winnan8701]

When can we expect a vid about traditional fishing boat sweater patterns?

[@vernonbowling5136]

This could have lasted another 2 hours and kept me fully interested.

[@baguette_taylor]

I was thinking the same!

[@Sewtired]

Need a long documentary with soundtrack. Love the music.

[@christopherd.winnan8701]

@@Sewtired You guys will enjoy the Iron Age Roundhouse videos, esp, when the pony is hauling the foundation stones.

[@josjewosje]

Beautiful ❤ that's why I spin and knit and weave and mend.

[@telainasalmon721]

My heart sings watching this. I prefer natural fibers for all the reasons you state.

[@frithbarbat]

Wool is absolutely not forgotten by me. I knit all my own woolens, and sew many of my summer clothes, always of natural fibers. I only wear wool, linen, cotton or silk. I buy good quality pieces that, frankly, feel like a stretch when I buy them, but even after four or five years in my wardrobe, are still relatively new, and can be recut, resewn into a different style, or made into something else completely if the mood strikes, because the cloth is good.

[@ReallyJillRogoff]

Same here.

[@NicolaAbraham]

What an inspiring and beautiful documentary. It never feels preachy, in spite of the subject matter. All the participants are people of great integrity that I would be honoured to know, if I were lucky enough to know them. And the divine singer, and his moving song! Thank you so much for making this film.

[@earth2jennyl]

Beautiful video. Thanks to everyone involved. ❤

[@brightmoonweavingstudio6954]

Beautiful beautiful beautiful!!!! Lovely to see Marina & the team at Fernhill, I’m just watching whilst spinning fleece from them!!

[@ruthbennett7563]

The fiber artist/stitcher in me is going twitchy in the fingers looking at that gorgeous crimp & long staple of those gently sheared sheep. Wool & other natural fibres are the best❤❤❤

[@pilatesme73]

Thank you for this documentary. Wool is a fantastic resource and the way to go .❤

[@valeriebishop561]

I love that knitters are helping to improve things on the Earth! Great film and I will share it.

[@susannekalejaiye4351]

So glad I learned to spin. So glad I have taught others the skill, whether or not they use it. So glad to have learned so much about different breeds of sheep and the different qualities of their wool.

[@DellaFoxglove]

How delightful and moving to watch this wee documentary in which we can sense the 'heart' of being attuned to 'Nature'. Hoping more people can feel and see all the benefits - personal and social of sheep, wool and natural fibres and the joy and 'goodness' they can bring the world - thankyou !

[@ASmileAdayful]

I'm sure wool is coming back 👍 ❤ a poll on woolwarehouse customers were asking for more wool choices.

[@moira3001]

I am so glad that I found this. Wonderful. Thank you to all concerned.

[@katefisher7493]

My heart just filled up so much. And I’ll be singing “I’d rather be tending my sheep’ all day!!

[@heidim7732]

This is a beautiful documentary, I will be sharing with friends. Thank you!

[@TorchwoodPandP]

But there is also a really, really sad side to the individual jumpers: if you lost someone at sea, and they were found again - you could identify them by the jumper.

[@gretchenetchison8437]

Just starting to use wool in my crochet items as I can afford. Thank you for making this film.

[@helencarr5869]

I've just been spinning for six months and absolutely love it. I stumbled upon this video and I'm so glad I did! Very inspiring to keep going. Can't wait to knit something with what I have spun! Thank you for the beautiful mini documentary!

[@pchabanowich]

Winter comes soon. It is a hard time for me - always was - but in my elder years, I look forward to wearing the herringbone tweed coat, the knitted cap and the woven scarf. They console against the winds and sleet, and do I not love the compliments on their beauty. I am joyous you would rather be tending your sheep...

[@myparadise_garden_]

❤❤❤❤so wonderful- thank you

[@janepage3608]

What a fabulous film. Stunningly created and presented.

[@lesleyjones9263]

Fabulous! I’m so on board with you on all of this! You’re speaking to the converted but keep it going, the world needs to hear and heed ❤❤(from Australia) ❤❤

[@janm2473]

Such a fabulous documentary.... I had really hoped it had lasted for another hour.. thank you for your dedication to our planet and to our existence...

[@armuver1]

Lovely film, thank you and I love the song by Tom White.

[@lifelearner47]

What a wonderful discovery this little documentary has been. In the past I'd always been involved in big outdoor projects, but 5 years ago illness drove me indoors and more or less glued to a chair. Then I discovered a bag of knitting I had tried and failed with in 1997. So I thought; have another go. Slowly but surely I made my first ever object in wool! Problem, it had synthetic bits in it, so I set out to find 100% natural fibres, both animal and vegetal. 4 years on, I've saved a fortune of excessive heating bills by spending some of my savings on fibres which keep me warm. I'm just sitting sowing up a full length pinafore dress I've knitted in mohair which comes from a farm about 15 km from my home. Worn over silk/wool fine under sweater and home knitted leggings (again, local wool), I shall be very cosy without being bulky. So thank you so much, sheep & wool people, for bringing me so much pleasure.

[@joyofthings]

Thankyou, you are keeping the message alive.xx🐝🐝🐝

[@jacquelynsmith2351]

I never considered throwing my sweaters or socks in the compost. Granted, none of them are worn out enough to consider doing anything with yet, but now I know what to do when they reach that point!

[@psychedelicpegasus7587]

My husband and I received a beautiful Foxford woolen throw as a wedding gift from friends. It was made in Co. Mayo, Ireland from Connemara wool. One of my friends is from Galway and he wanted to give us it because it came from home. It's incredibly beautiful. I'm going to get some items from Cushendale woolen mill not far from my family home in Wexford. As I live in Fife, Scotland it will be like having a bit of home to keep me warm. 😊

[@pattiwaterfield5193]

So important to keep educating people. When I look back at the 70's and 80's ( I lived in a non-Western world before then) I am so horrified at the lack of natural materials - glass and metal replaced by plastics, wool and cotton and linen replaced by plastic, even our food was replaced by plastics. And the worst of the matter is that so many people had no idea. Thank you for this film. It makes many of us feel we are not alone in our quest to come together and try to keep the earth together and healthy.

[@dpelpal]

Our food has _not_ been replaced by plastics. Stop embellishing and exaggerating.

[@pattiwaterfield5193]

@@dpelpal Perhaps you need to do research. Much of the food in cans, and processed, in the Mega-farms all are contaminated by petroleum by-products. Please do your own research.

[@dpelpal]

@@pattiwaterfield5193 Your "research" is a bunch of internet garbage and propaganda😄

[@pattiwaterfield5193]

@@dpelpal Sorry for your rage. Are you okay? I dont really want to know but maybe people around you could be concerned???

[@dpelpal]

@@pattiwaterfield5193 Stop believing propaganda and nonsense. Stop spreading lies. *You are not a scientist.*

[@lifeofjoy9404]

This is a very thoughtful and very lovely mini docu. Thank you!

[@kathrynsch]

Thank you.

[@jasminewright7019]

It is sad, but what does it say when society prefers artificial materials and products? It is the same with food. I so prefer natural. Thank you for this. I had no idea that even this area of life is struggling to stay afloat. I prefer natural fibers; wool, linen, cotton and silk. I sew much of my own clothing because I am not fond of whatever the 'style' of the day is. I knit and crochet as well, not as much as I used to do. I have always wanted to learn spinning, but I am now 62 and probably too old to learn it. If I had the opportunity I probably still would try. I have always enjoyed making my own things.

[@debradantonio2974]

So exciting to sit down to watch this and there was Marina. A very pleasant surprise. Beautifully done everyone.

[@aprilbrown53]

So jealous of the equipment in that factory. I get fleeces right off the sheep from a milk farm neighbor, and handwashing out the poop, hand carding, just so much work. And so very many remarkable odors.

[@beverleydryland1146]

THANKYOU so beautiful and informative .........food for thought !!

[@robinaanstey3734]

SOOO good and true to watch and learn something that was once the most original concept of sustainability and the healthiest life is the best life. Au Natural is and will always be best. TY for sharing.

[@julieedwards6937]

What a wonderful video, I’d rather be knitting the yarn from the sheep 😊 lovely to see Marina on here too. Natural fibres all the way for me.

[@gailfirenze4760]

Couldn’t agree more.🙋🏼‍♀️🇦🇺👍

[@neenaj365]

What a lovely documentary! Thank you!

[@jillraymond2394]

In the 1970s we had a national wool marketing board in the UK, it had a symbol that was used on woollen clothings

[@woolenbluebird]

Beautifully done! I thoroughly enjoyed it.

[@editekeditek8600]

Beautiful 🤍🐑

[@lindachandler2293]

If I had known how to knit when I was a child my feet would never have been cold 😢

[@yorkshirenome]

Beautiful documentary!

[@oakandwool]

Lovely film 😊

[@sallysherfield6783]

So informative and beautifully filmed.

[@jant4741]

US residents… we have spinning guilds all over the US if you want to learn to spin.

[@yellowzora]

Beautiful documentary! I really need to make my first wool jumper, I've stuck to hats, scarfs and handwarmers so far but definitely craving more 😊

[@djh1775]

I only wear cotton, linen, and wool. I hate plastic (synthetic) clothes. Nowadays, natural fiber clothes are hard to find.

[@idabergmann5270]

yeah, let's do it!

[@deniseengel1451]

❤️

[@buds8423]

❤Jen Hunter’s thoughts on wool being more beautiful on the sheep❤

[@sphhyn]

❤

[@Meredith36]

This is just lovely and so very true

[@lileung1248]

So inspiring thank you!

[@S.RMarigold]

I love weaving wool for clothing, accessories, cushions. I never use man made fibers. Maybe not the most hip person in the world.

[@christopherd.winnan8701]

I too would rather be tending my sheep, but who under 70 can afford property prices in the UK? What we really need is more Aaron Fletcher type solutions.

[@maw8097]

would you mind telling me who Aaron Fletcher is?

[@mywoolmitten]

This is wonderful ❤

[@PatientFarmer]

Just throw it into the compost bin. I can't say the same about my supposedly 100% cotton socks (commercial). They have been in my compost for over 2 years now and I keep finding them and tossing them back into the pile to cook...they still look like socks. 😭 Come spring I'm tossing them into the landfill bin should I see them again.

[@RoseRoseRose959]

beautiful

[@marionboa]

Loved this film. One point - the Inuit here in Canada have never raised sheep

[@MrsStevenBrown]

Have you not harvested the shed fibre/undercoat of the musk ox to make anything?

[@KimberlyRivas-oq9ic]

I wonder if the girls and boys who "hang by a thread" with their stitching 😮 understand where they are going now and evolving 2024 following November 20, 2024, a good date to start with considering the sign of the times and the improvement of the world...😊❤🎉

[@larryl123]

A beautiful insight into the need for more sustainable practices across the clothing industry

[@eckosters]

Beautiful. But I think there’s a “but” that isn’t addressed: sheep require open pasture and the UK has been massively deforested in the Middle Ages and Renaissance for ship building. And ever since, sheep have kept that treeless landscape treeless. Now there are admirable attempts at reforestation which I hope will grow. Doesn’t this history affect how we think of sheep holding?

[@t.k3025]

Also, sheep used to shed naturally. Then man got involved.

[@briannacooper2628]

Beautifully done but one gentle suggestion is a flashing light warning in the description. That kinda of sun through trees flashing while moving is a prime seizure trigger

[@thomashubbell8612]

It is so frustrating that in the US it is almost impossible to find 100% wool yarns. Almost everything is super wash and contains nylon/etc. I wear socks that I knit. It takes 10 minutes to wash/rinse a week’s worth of socks. Then you lay them out to dry. No biggie!

[@marciahighsmith4820]

I had no idea that wool was only one percent of fiber used.

[@gillrobinson3517]

Can't find this tune on KZbin. Well not this specific rendition...so disappointed

[@abiwk04]

Who can knit a pair of hand knit socks in an hour and a half? Takes me 3 days.

[@angixm]

1%?????!!!!! I must be sustaining the 1%!!! LOL 😂 most of my wardrobe is wool!!!! 🥰💚🩵💛

[@maryjones5710]

There are English folk working out how to bring sheep for wool back.

[@ClareC-sv9tb]

Did that man really say it takes 1.5 hours to knit a pair of socks by hand??? It takes about 40 hours for an experienced knitter.

[@susaningimundson6726]

I think he was talking about a sock “machine”?

[@melaniehodgson4093]

Did one of them say hand knit socks take about an hour and a half? I wish 😮 it takes way longer to hand knit socks. I

[@Norfolk250]

Opening song :..... he sounds SHHHHEXY!!!!😀🥊❤️

[@maggie2sticks717]

I hope Robert Kennedy Jr.'s message of Make America Healthy Again will spread across the world and we will Make The World Healthy Again. Wool is a very good start. Love this documentary!

[@rmfishy]

Healthy by antivaxxing? Yeah, sounds like a great plan.... /s

[@lucylou5766]

Why do you yanks think EVERYTHING is about you? This is a documentary about wool, for pete’s sake. And j7st in case it’s not crystal clear, the rest of the world thinks the US is weird and dangerous. Get used to it.