This weekend HERD knit pieces will be featured in The Shop - a pop-up on South Molton Street by Stories...
A strong rooted plant with rich leafy greens and tiny yellow flowers, madder has been a staple source of dye colour for thousands of years. The plant contains alizarin - an organic compound that produces a prominent red known historically as one of the most valuable colours known to man.
These words reflect Herd's core values - Local, Natural and Regenerative. We make our yarn and garments from field to finishing within...
Herd: Rebuilding the British wool industry
By Jessica Owens, in the World Textile Information Network, 23rd April 2021 Herd is championing British wool and knitwear and...
Spotlight on natural dyes for Earth Day 2021 🌍
Our Earth Day initiative for this year is to spotlight our naturally dyed yarn - a process which we have...
Rosanna Falconer looks ahead to Sustainability in 2021 for Eco-Age
Ruth Rands advises on knitwear care in the Sunday Times Style magazine
In the good jumper guide this weekend in the Sunday Times Style, Ruth Rands founder of Herd gave some advice to Fashion Editor Jane McFarland on caring for knitwear.
She said: "I asked for tips from Ruth Rands, who last autumn launched Herd, a made-in-England label that uses 100 per cent traceable wool from sheep farmers in Lancashire and Yorkshire.
HERD featured in The Telegraph on Sunday
HERD is featured in Stylist's knitwear edit
Herd featured in the Lust List at Pebble Magazine
Well respected sustainability website Pebble included Herd in their Lust List this week! Here's what they said...
Country & Town House newsletter mentions HERD
Precious raw materials: seaweed and wool
So what - I hear you ask - is the connection between wool and seaweed? Well, as well as founding Herd I also run a wild, organic seaweed company called Atlantic Kitchen, which I founded in 2012.
The connection to me is completely natural - both are abundant, local, native raw materials that grow in perfect quality, seasonally, without inputs or cultivation. Both are brilliant sequesters of carbon, meaning their growth locks atmospheric carbon into the soil, or ocean bed or into the lustrous locks that become knitwear.
