The Wool Company story is a tale of wild boar, angora goats and cold feet.

Harry and Sarah Mayman moved back to Cornwall after an absence of twenty years when we discovered we were going to be blessed with a third child.  We bought the remains of a very run down farm on the edge of Bodmin Moor and had plans to renovate the stone barns for tourism. However during the time it took to have a baby, sort out the house and design the barns we got used to the peace and quiet and wondered what else we could do with the farm...

Higher Hill Farm had previously been a successful wild boar farm - a good example of diversification - but had problems with escapees  (there is still the occasional wild boar sighted in local woods today).  Unfortunately after the wild boar left most of the topsoil had gone too: the only animals we could find that could live comfortably off the land were goats and the only goats we could find that wouldn't jump over the fences were angora goats that produce mohair.

It only took a winter in our freezing, drafty stone farmhouse to discover the benefits of wool on our feet and more so the amazing properties of mohair, the fleece form the angora goat. (Mohair is much warmer than sheep's wool and being soft yet hardwearing, makes the perfect yarn for warm socks.) Our children didn't much appreciate Harry's reluctance to buy heating oil and became great fans of their "Momos", the Kid Mohair Explorer socks we designed. These served multiple purposes of using the wonderfully soft baby angora fleece (from the goats' first shearing), keeping little feet warm on cold slate, saving money and of course helping reduce our carbon footprint... and so The Wool Company was born.

Our Mission

We have always felt that the the use of natural fibres for bedding and clothing is better in every way than petrochemical products (we will shortly be publishing a page explaining in detail why wool is better) and it is our mission to share our belief with the rest of the world that cares to listen.

Our watchword is Quality: we source as many of our products as we can from the UK and most of our suppliers make their products in Britain and our famous sheepskins are mostly from Devon and Cornwall, but we also like to think that we supply the very best quality wool products from around the world so you can be confident that whatever you buy from us is of superb quality. We don't favour inferior UK products over better products from abroad.

High Quality ...... Value for Money ...... Local Sourcing

Because of our low overheads you can also be confident of getting real value for money from us: you may be able to buy cheaper elsehwere but you certainly won't get the same quality for the price.

Our Business

We started with kid mohair socks but soon realised that there was a serious shortage of supply of high quality natural wool products of many kinds and started to develop our range. As well as selling to retail customers online we supply a number of corporate customers including world wide hotel chains, boutiques shops, boutique hotels, breweries etc. However our wholesale divison is still in its infancy and we are working hard on devloping this further.

We are still a small company; the whole family gets involved one way or another (our children have all helped with product testing, modelling, art direction and packing and stock-taking!) and, when the children are at school, our team totals only five.  So if you phone us you will know you're getting a proper personal service from either Sarah, Donna, Katrina, Karen or Harry, however because of this you may have to leave a message!