Only wool from "happy sheep"

Sheep protect your body with a wonderfully warm and water-repellent coat - of wool. For clothing is usually pure new wool, z. B. from merino sheep, used. New wool is shorn from healthy, living sheep, washed, sorted and processed either directly to felting or spun into yarn and then woven or entangled.

Wool has a high natural fat (lanolin). The fewer the wool is treated, the better the water repellency of clothing through the wool grease.

Because the single hair of wool is hollow inside, the air inside stores heat very well: why woolen products are often comfortably warm.

Unfortunately, wool production sometimes has a darker side: 

Many merino sheep, especially in Australia, are breed to have skin folds that increase the wool production per animal. Moisture collects in these folds, which attracts flies that lay their eggs there. The hatched larva bore into the sheep’s skin and often cause infections. 

In order to prevent this, mulesing is done. This entails large pieces of skin around the tail of the animal being removed, often without any painkillers.

VAUDE has to use a clear voluntary commitment to only use wool from mulesing-free production. Our suppliers must confirm this.