Headband

The chilly breeze on the Atlantic Coast is the inspiration for the 100% wool West-Strand headband. It’s designed and handcrafted for the great outdoors to keep you warm all year around.

• Wool is naturally self-cleaning. As it is disinfecting and antibacterial so it resists the build-up of smell and dirt.

The West-Strand 100% wool range is handcrafted in my workshop right on the Atlantic Coast in the small village of Strandhill in Co. Sligo, in the North-West of Ireland. As all work is handmade, variations are part of the unique process of creation. That makes every product one of a kind.

Materials: The 100% sheep wool fabric is called walk. It’s made in Austria in a small town near my home village, where the  wool is knitted first then hammered for strength.

The Shetland wool which is used for the walk-fabric is perhaps the completest article of its kind in the universe:

• possessing at the same time,
• the gloss and softness of silk,
• the strength of cotton,
• the whiteness of linen and
• the warmth of wool which is the finest of all native breeds.

Did you know,… Wool as a natural material with its natural wool fleece insulation keeps you warm through reflecting the body heat on cold days. On warm days it keeps you cool through its air pillow.

• It also is water resistant,
• air permeable and
• absorbs/stores moisture.