The Golden Fleece of the Cotswold Sheep Sheep have grazed on the Cotswold hills for more than 2000 years - and the most famous breed was The Cotswold ,whose lustrous, curly fleece was famous throughout Europe. T oday there is not much more than a ton or two of Cotswold fleece-wool available each year. During the early 1980's Cotswold Woollen Weavers recognised its potential and revived its use.
Visitors are welcome all year at the mill to see both the processes involved and the products.
Cotswold Woollen Weavers' activities have been coincident with a renewed interest inthe Cotswold breed, so this is a good time for re-appraisal. For too long the illustrious historical pedigree of Cotswold wool has been ignored as irrelevant. But it was not always so. The Cotswolds are indelibly marked with the history of theCotswold sheep and its fleece. But it is a puzzling, clouded history.