Growing and creating home comforts from fibre is a centuries old craft. Providing warmth and comfort to people around the world and our own hearth. Brigadoon Fiber Farm follows in those footsteps, creating unique yarns and handwovens using the same techniques and many tools used historically. All processing is done completely within the maritimes either on farm in our studio or a small mill used for our yarn.

All items are handwoven in studio on one of 5 wooden looms dating from 1840 through to 1989. I love heritage weaving designs and bring this antiqued feeling of hearth and home to everything we do.

Choosing to create high quality wool and alpaca yarns comes with the challenge of re-educating an audience who expects 'wool' yarn from a craft store. Creating and purchasing fine yarns ensures small farm preservation. With the industrial revolution, yarns are produced in large factories with corrosive chemicals. They favor white yarns to later dye. This ensured that herdsmen tend to keep white sheep. Those beautiful breeds with colored fleeces are being bred out of existence to suit this expanding market.

The alpaca fiber is grown on our farm, right outside our door. In mid spring we shear our animals, then skirted to remove all portions that are unsuitable for spinning. It's then sent to our local mill for yarn or roving, or kept in house for dying and hand spinning.

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Please feel free to contact us if you have questions or would like something only you would think of!