Wool for a better indoor climate
Our WOOPIES are mainly made from Swiss wool! The loden, backing and core consist of layers of wool with different densities, fiber orientations and fiber fineness.
Wool not only absorbs sound and reduces reverberation in the room - it also ensures a natural room climate and offers numerous advantages:
+ Wool regulates the humidity in the room
+ Wool breaks down pollutants
+ Wool neutralizes odours
+ Wool is non-allergenic
+ Wool is self-cleaning
+ Wool is renewable, natural and regional
Alpine origin
Sheep's wool, the natural raw material for our WOOPIES, comes to a large extent from the harsh high mountain landscape of the Swiss Alps. Here, over 400,000 mountain sheep find an almost limitless habitat and rich, natural food sources. From Graubünden to Valais, the animals spend the summer months on the alpine pastures and are only traditionally shorn by hand in spring and fall. The sheep spend the cold winter months protected in spacious stables, fed on nutritious dry grass.
SWISSWOOL - the basis for our WOOPIES
We founded the label in 2010, when Swiss wool was on the brink of extinction. Subsidies were cut or withdrawn and mountain farmers could hardly earn any money from wool. Since then, we have set up around 20 collection points in Swiss valleys twice a year. In this way, around 250 tons of fairly traded wool are collected directly from the producers every year and processed into high-quality products such as our WOOPIES.
More info at swisswool.ch and tracemywool.com
Zero waste
Recycling, upcycling, zero waste: although wool is a renewable raw material, it is valuable down to the last fiber.
Our zero-waste approach starts with wool collection, where all wool is accepted from the sheep farmers. Even the leftovers are swept up and later pressed into bio-fertilizer pellets. Wool scraps from fleece production are fed directly back into the production process.
Edge trimmings and scraps from pressing the fleece layers for the core of the WOOPIES are shredded, used as filling material or fed back into the production process. Punched-out parts from the firmer back of the WOOPIES are upcycled into beautiful new products such as lamps, coasters or accessories. We make our hand patterns from the loden remnants and donate the remaining colorful pieces to kindergartens for handicrafts. And even WOOPIES with small flaws are far from being waste - they make pretty pinboards.
Discover the creative products made from our production waste here: wooligang.de