Wool Month 2025: Check It’s Wool
This October marks Wool Month 2025, a nationwide celebration across the UK championed by The Campaign for Wool and British Wool. Running from 3rd to 30th October, the initiative highlights wool’s natural, sustainable, and high-performance qualities. With autumn’s chill settling in, it’s the perfect moment to remind consumers why wool remains one of nature’s most remarkable fibres.
Image from Fair's Fair: Farming Fashion, Selvedge Issue 124, Rural. Photo: Joss McKinley
Launched under the patronage of His Majesty King Charles III, Wool Month is dedicated to promoting wool as a renewable, biodegradable fibre that supports both the planet and the livelihoods of 35,000 British sheep farmers. This year also marks the 15th anniversary of the Campaign for Wool, making the celebration especially meaningful.
As His Majesty, when he was Prince of Wales, once said:
“It is abundantly clear to me that we need to make changes to the way we think about the production, use and the disposal of clothing and textiles if we are going to get anywhere near to meeting the United Nations climate change goals set for the industry. A major part of that change has to be moving from a linear system to a circular one, where textiles and clothing are produced sustainably, enjoy long use, and are made using natural materials, specifically wool, which will biodegrade naturally and quickly at the end of their useful life.”...
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Image Credits:
Lead Image: Photographer Malin Lauterbach for John Sterner, Suffolk sheep shot in Öland. As featured on the cover of Selvedge Issue 96, Nordic.
All other images as credited in photo captions.