Rest in Fleece: Wool Coffins

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Rest in Fleece: Wool Coffins

Crafty and green way to go

To help it survive — and thrive — in Britain’s shrinking textile industry, Hainsworth, a 225-year-old, family-run wool mill in West Yorkshire, England, has developed niche uses for wool. Its product range includes the uniforms worn by the Royal Guards at Buckingham Palace, the felt lining inside Steinway pianos and the interior headlining used in Rolls-Royce and Bentley automobiles. But it is one of Hainsworth’s most recent, and most unique, new products that’s making the company’s competitors look sheepish: woolen coffins.

8 thoughts on “Rest in Fleece: Wool Coffins

  1. Christian Restifo says:

    Who’d want to itch for eternity?

  2. Matt Richardson says:

    “Rest in Fleece” = Brilliant!

  3. Virginia Nitz says:

    Yeah! now I can knit in Heaven!

  4. Virginia Nitz says:

    A wool coffin? Yeah! now I can knit in Heaven!

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