Pulled Wool Roving R&D 1.15.2025

Hello All!


This email is geared towards those of you who make Pulled Wool Pads, if you don't make them then feel free to disregard :)

Over the years, we've made several Pulled Wool Pads so we know first hand how time consuming it is. Depending on where you source your roving from, you might have to split it 2-3 times to get the correct usable roving size to make the pad with. We've put a fair amount of thought into this over the last year or so and recently approached the Mill to see if we could potentially source wool roving that would come to us (and other pad makers) already in the correct weight/size so you could go right to work on your saddle pad (no splitting required)! We would start with natural colors but the door is also open for Mill dyed colors eventually.

The purpose of this email- we are looking for a handful of existing Pulled Wool Saddle Pad makers to give us feedback on roving weight so we can dial it into the correct usable weight right off the spool. We would be looking for more information than "Yes, it's great" or "No, it won't work for me". We would be after some in depth information/feedback on the roving as we bring it along through the development stages and then finally make it available to all makers. 

If you think you'd be interested in helping us out with some product testing, please reach out as we'd like to compile a list of potential R&D makers. We are ideally looking for folks who have made 15+ pads and who are able to get the test roving out into the wild to see how it does. If this sounds like you, please shoot me an email along with some photos of your pulled wool work!

If you haven't made that many pads but would still be interested in helping us with some data collection, we would love to hear from folks on how much they spend per pound of roving and if it's pre-dyed or natural colored. We would also be curious to see how many folks actually do their own dyeing of roving. All of this information would help us figure out if the roving from the Mill would be cost effective, if it's quite a bit more expensive (we aren't sure what the price would be yet but are working on that part) then that is all very important data to know! Thank you in advance for your help :)

Thank you all,
Tracy (and Dana)

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