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Britain’s wool industry, which for a decade was shrinking is bouncing back as a series of innovations have sprung up, creating products that use wool from all 120 breeds of British sheep – around 60 pure and 60 half breeds. Inventors are using British wool for a variety of weird and wonderful new products, prompting an industry revival.

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Prince Charles’ initiative to help sheep farmers has created a renaissance for the wool industry which is traditional textile that once made the country great. The Wool Project announced by Prince Charles has helped revitalize the industry by promoting wool as a sustainable material.

When the Prince of Wales conceived his Campaign for Wool crusade five years, bringing together all sectors of the industry, farmers were being paid less for a fleece than it cost to shear. Today wool prices have tripled.