Born out of love

I am Rosy and I was raised loving animals and the smell of sheep wool, growing up in the small spinning mill that belonged to both my grandparents and parents at the edge of the Swabian Alb. My grandmother taught me everything I know about knitting and wool quality. The spinning mill did not survive the textile crisis and I became a computational linguist, obtaining a PhD in computer science. Nevertheless, I never completely gave up knitting nor the possibility to imbue my clothes with an individual, creative expression.

Knitting would, perhaps, have remained only a hobby, had the search for soft wool not led me to discover mulesing, a painful process that occurs in Merino wool production. This made it clear that I couldn't possibly continue knitting with wool obtained in such a manner. And it inspired me to try finding a better means of wool production, making the exact yarn that I would like to have myself.

I got to know and love Patrick while we were both still working in IT. When I told him about my wool production idea, he was immediately thrilled. Together we learned a lot about sheep, spinning and dyeing. That was back in 2012 and, in the meantime, that initial idea has grown into our mutual calling.

I was able to show my grandmother our first colour card shortly before her death. She was overjoyed that my love for sheep had finally led me back to where it all started for me - to good wool and to our family tradition.