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Fibre · Wool
Shetland, undyed worsted
Long-staple Shetland spun worsted, pale cream to warm stone. Forty-count weaving yarn.
A single-farm fibre co · est. 2018
Wool, linen and madder — grown on one Herefordshire farm.
Fallowfield & Co produces regeneratively-grown fibre and natural dye on 140 acres of the Wye Valley. Every kilo we sell can be traced to a field, a flock, or a dye vat by name and by season.
§ 01 — Catalogue
Six lines, all grown here.
Every line names the field, batch and year. Sold by the kilo to makers; sample books free to wholesale accounts.
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Dye · Root
Madder, ground root
Three-year-old Rubia tinctorum root, ground to a coarse meal for vat dyeing. Deep terracotta to red.
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Fibre · Flax
Linen line, scutched
Scutched flax fibre, pale blonde, ready for hackling and spinning. Suitable for weaving or hand-spinning.
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Dye · Leaf
Woad, vat cake
Indigo-rich woad cake, ready for fermenting into a blue vat. Makes approximately 20L of vat per kilo.
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Fibre · Hemp
Hemp tow, retted
Dew-retted hemp tow, soft and blend-ready. Good for woven rugs, heavier weaves, paper-stock.
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Dye · Plant
Weld, dried & cut
Dried Reseda luteola — yellow-to-chartreuse with the right mordant, or a base for green over-dyeing.
§ 03 — Practices
How the farm works.
Three commitments, checked in writing every October as part of our soil and flock audit.
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No synthetic inputs
No synthetic fertiliser, no herbicide, no routine wormer. We've farmed this way since the 2018 transition and would rather lose a crop than break it.
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Rotational grazing
Sheep move every 72 hours on mob-grazed paddocks, leaving pasture tall enough to re-establish root mass. Soil organic carbon up 0.4% since 2019.
iii
Plant back
Every year we plant 2% of the farm back into hedgerow and woodland. By 2040 we'll have restored 40 hectares of native treeline to the valley.
iv
Known prices
Our prices are public and change once a year. No volume tiers, no negotiation, no customer pays more than another.
Wholesale enquiries.
Tell us what you make and what you're after — we'll send a sample book, current price list and the month's batch sheet within a working day.
- Farm
- Fallowfield Farm, Lower Withyham, Herefordshire HR4 7BG
- Telephone
- +44 1432 000 000
- Wholesale
- [email protected]
- Visit us
- By appointment · second Saturday each month