Building a connection with growers, spinners and weavers often hold an appreciation for where their wool comes from.
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00:00 This is Jackie Moskovich, weaver and owner of Melbourne based business Jackie Made This.
00:05 Like many spinners and weavers, she's passionate about slow fashion, sourcing her yarn direct
00:09 from Leocim Merinos in Snowtown, South Australia.
00:12 I'm making some really beautiful soft merino that has a 17.4 micron and an incredibly low
00:19 prickle factor so it doesn't have that itchiness that a lot of people associate with wool.
00:26 And it's just super soft and super comfortable and super warm and I'm loving using it.
00:33 It's lovely to be able to say I know where that farm is, I've been there, I've met them,
00:38 I've seen their sheep and it's all being processed in Australia so it's really lovely to be able
00:43 to work with Australian product.
00:46 Leocim is owned by Andrew and Rosemary Michael and their 99.7% comfort factor wool is spun
00:52 in Victoria into 4 and 8 ply yarn.
00:55 They have a flock of pole merino and white softwork ewes across 3 different locations
00:59 in South Australia.
01:00 We had our first lot of wool processed back in 2019 and from there it's just grown into
01:08 people wanting a natural fibre, not super washed, just straight from farm to yarn to
01:16 you is what they're enjoying.
01:18 I met Jackie from Jackie Made This in Adelaide back in about 2020 I would say it was and
01:26 Jackie weaves and she has been buying our wool to weave her scarves since our first meeting.
01:33 We run about 3000 stud ewes and the wool that we have processed comes mainly from our new
01:40 hobbits.
01:41 Normally she is 6 months and our wool is about 85 years of processing.
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