Dezeen Showroom: Portuguese brand Burel Factory has harnessed the natural characteristics of wool to create a fabric that reinterprets traditional craft for modern commercial spaces. Burel Factory ...
Isabel Costa's wool factory makes burel, a tightly woven Portuguese fabric that was a mainstay of the region for centuries. Her factory is the only one left in the village of Manteigas, and is using ...
When John Wheelwright arrived in Exeter in the late winter of 1638, he was most likely wearing woolen socks. Europeans used two basic fiber sources for their clothing – linen and wool. Both of these ...