With little usefulness and the consequent devaluation in the market, lamb wool is gaining new dynamics and is even placed as a duvet filling sold by a Sousel Company, Portalegre District.
“It is the only lamb wool building that exists. Everything is done in Portugal, there is nothing imported and we are starting to export,” says Lusa Ricardo Machado, one of the company’s partners that sells these windows with the Digaric brand.
In the exhibitor that the brand has in one of the pavilions of the Ovibeja Agricultural Fair, which ended this Sunday in Beja, some copies of this product are exposed, as well as dogs for dog or cat, also with lamb wool interior.
Ricardo Machado says that the brand was born of a partnership between Herdade de Vale Feitosa, in Idanha-a-Nova, municipality of Castelo Branco, of which he owns, and the company Pasto Alentejo, from Sousel, who sells lambs.
“Testing a sheep costs a lot of money” to sheep creators and “had no income, because so far wool was not valued”, but the scenario is changing, thanks to new solutions to this natural product, he says.
According to the businessman, the lambs are moved in Sousel and the wool is transported to the Guard, where it is washed, and then to the textile industry in the north of the country, to be sprinkled and where the duvetos are made.
“It is a truly Portuguese product,” says the sheep creator, which has about 2,500 sheep, also noticing that this is 100% lamb wool, while other brain buildings are produced with synthetic fibers.
Noting that these padded bed coverage began to be sold in late 2024, Ricardo Machado says that the first remittance, which was test, were a success and ended up “exhausting almost in less than a month.”
“This year, we’ll already have wool that you can do many comforts,” he says, revealing that it is expected to use about 80 tons. In addition to the domestic market, the wool is already preparing to export, namely to England and France.
The wool blankets have fallen into disuse, argues the entrepreneur, stressing that this new product “can have the same quality and is even better than the penalties.” And, like in the past, “it can be generational.”
Downtime is, together with other partners, such as universities, to test new products based on lamb wool in the areas of clothing, construction and art, which is expected to be launched in the market by the end of this year.
“And this is the principle of what we think is an integrated solution that will undoubtedly help the rural world,” he says.
Also ACOS – Southern Farmers Association, based in Beja and Prosecutor of Ovibeja, joined efforts with the artisan, researcher and businesswoman Rosa Pomar who, then launches pieces made with Campaniça sheep wool.
“Fortunately, for Campaniça producers, it has been a breath of fresh air to have Rosa Pomar working with us, because, despite being in this difficult market, it makes a point of valuing wool and that this appreciation reverberates in the producer,” says Miguel Madeira, acos vice president and creator of this type of sheep.
Wire skeins and textile pieces are some of the articles developed by Rosa Pomar. On display and for sale at Ovibeja are others made of felt wool, with the brand’s own brand and the author, such as thermal sleeves for wine bottles or pencil and pens.
With this work, adds Miguel Madeira, the artisan “can drain almost all” of the 20 thousand pounds of wool produced by the total of 10,000 sheep of the Campaniça breed.
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