Wool on the Wall, a new event in the heart of Hadrian’s Wall Country, takes place this year on Sunday, 13th July, in the Greenhead Hotel, just across the road from its sister event, the Hadrian’s Wall Farmers’ Market at Greenhead – together celebrating the whole sheep, you might say!

July is clipping time for the flocks that graze the fells along which the world heritage site snakes its way from coast to coast. Lambing is well and truly over, the hay crop is in flower, and it’s time to shed those very necessary winter coats and reveal the remarkably svelte shapes of Blackface, Swaledale, Mule and Texel.

British wool has kept the chill from Celt and Roman, civilian and soldier, for centuries and now can be found insulating modern homes and made into enduring carpets. They will be celebrating not only the farmers and their flocks, but the very many traditional skills that have always been carried on using wool: the felting, spinning, weaving and dyeing, knitting and crochet skills of old, which are now in the extremely talented hands of modern craftsmen and women from all over the north. There will be demonstrations by the experts to amaze you, and opportunities for everyone to have a go and try to master the rudiments for themselves.

For full details of the event, go to the Wool On The Wall website.