It’s unbelievable to think that a year has passed since we embarked on our Provenance Ag adventure with Paul Simons and his team at Glencoe. We have finally started sewing in earnest this month and we think you’ll love the new shirts. And so the cycle starts all over again. Shearing has just finished and […]
Category Archives: Provenance Merino
The production of our first ever fully traceable merino wool is starting to gather momentum. Next comes the spinning where carded wool is transformed into spun yarn ready for weaving. Here twist is added and the yarn is drawn out to ensure the correct yarn count. You can see the winding process and the preparation […]
Some of you may remember that at the very start of this year a slow boat set sail from Australia with our first supply of merino wool sourced directly from the farmstead. We promised to chronicle all the stages of the production as the beautiful raw merino wool transforms into a McNair Shirt. We are […]
Our dream at McNair was always to have full traceability of our wool and we had even harboured dreams of our own flock of merino sheep in the UK. After a couple of really difficult false-starts over a few years, it looked impossible. We have now re-grouped and have great news. It was a […]