Australian made knitwear using fibre that is grown, scoured, spun and machine–knitted domestically, is not easily found. Through months of research we discovered some of the last processors in their fields, building a supply chain that could test this concept and help us create something that should exist, but doesn’t. 

The wool itself was the last piece of the puzzle as we discovered Tom Dennis in Tarndwarncoort in south-west Victoria. The Dennis Family has lived on the same property since 1840 and through ongoing difficulties raising Merinos in the wet climate of the Otway Ranges, they developed Australia’s first breed of sheep, the Polwarth in 1880. With long stapled, soft–handling fibre and endurance throughout the high rainfall, the Polwarth is now found in similar climates around the world.

Today the Dennis Family have around 100 sheep in this flock, producing wool predominantly for hand-knitters. Our yarn was scoured by EP Robinson in Newtown, tops–made by Cashmere Connections in Bacchus Marsh, spun by Bendigo Woolen Mills in Bendigo and knitted in Melbourne.