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Paddock To Ply - Fibre Mill
Australia's Only Fine Spinning Mill
Fine Fibre Processing for Conscious Luxury Yarns

Our story

Paddock To Ply, aims to provide processing and production for fine Australian sourced, natural fibres, that will be made into luxury, limited edition, fine yarns for both hand and machine knitting. Paddock To Ply would like to close the financial loop between profits and the producer community, furthering the positive economic impact for Australia’s farming communities. The Paddock To

Ply Mill, could potentially process up to and beyond 18 ton of raw fibre per year, turning greasy wool into yarn in this new mill. The Paddock To Ply concept was inspired by the need to address the existing issue that only .03% of Australia’s wool is currently being processed within the country, making it almost impossible to buy 100% Australian Grown, Processed and Spun natural fibre yarns. Paddock To Ply would ultimately like to address the lack of value-added processing in Australia, and the need to support our local farms through placing a higher value on wool fibre, while providing livelihoods, ecologically sensitive, and ‘home-grown’ goods for the local population. In the last few decades’ farmers have had little incentive to continue to raise wool-producing animals resulting in a shift towards breeding what are known as hair sheep, where the wool naturally sloughs off the animals and is lost to production. Paddock To Ply seeks to shift these economic and agricultural trends by supporting farmers through the creation of local outlets for their wool that are not dependent on international commodity market pricing. The project’s assumed scale of production will serve a larger market segment than the hand- spinning and hand-knit community, as well as offer a consistent market to deter land filling and composting of this precious resource. The Paddock To Ply mill will be based on the Fibershed model, which has already been assessed for its role as an economic and environmental solution, and therefore can be replicated, for use with our own Australian farmers, designers, apparel brands and wearers. Given the historical richness of Australia’s wool milling tradition this project builds on the context that began with early settlement, with a focused assessment on the possibility for a new era of regionalism, and vertically integrated business. The Paddock To Ply brand story of, ‘Fine Fibre Processing for Conscious Luxury Yarns’ will seek to engage, connect, and collaborate with both business and consumer in creating a truly valuable experience.

02/02/2023

Worth every cent of the ticket price.

Get the best prices on theatre tickets for Hamilton at the Lyric Theatre, QPAC - Brisbane on TodayTix. Find the best deals, show information & more.

20/03/2019

What do you collect?
One old metal ladder, some planks of wood for shelves, and some brackets and I've created a new shelf for my mid-century pottery and glass collection.

-century

18/03/2019

Milling Monday!
We reuse good cardboard cones from other textile manufacturers like sock makers and weavers who would otherwise throw them away.

17/03/2019

Voila!
Now to remember how to put a warp on and tie up!
Schacht do make a beautiful piece of furniture.

15/03/2019

Does this come with instructions?....

My Schacht new loom in a million pieces on the dining room floor. Talk about flat pack furniture!
The courier refused to bring it up the two front steps. He was going to leave it in the carport. I DON'T THINK SO!
Therefore I had to unpack it IMMEDIATELY and bring it ALL into the house.... hence the slight chaos.

11/03/2019

Milling Monday!
Trying to improve the feed in roller system on the draw frame. Only issue with poly pipe is the build up of static electricity so we'll have to ground it somehow.

08/03/2019

New Paddock To Ply store up and running on Etsy!
Trying to get my head around all the technical details.
Let me know if you find any 'Woopsies'.
Thanks for supporting Paddock To Ply!

28/02/2019

Trying to wind all the hanks from the mill into skeins almost gave me RSI😊

100gm skeins of 8ply and 5ply. Spun for me by Bendigo Mohair Farm from combed top to produce a gorgeously bouncy semi worsted yarn.

26/02/2019

Limited Edition Yarns from PTP.
100% Australian Grown, Processed and Spun.
18 Micron Organic Merino with a touch of English Angora hand brushed from my very own rabbits.
Natural white. Perfect for dyeing.
Semi worsted Spun into 8ply & 5ply for me by Bendigo Mohair Farm. My own mill only does lighter weight yarns.
Gorgeously soft with amazing bounce.

$120 + gst for a pack of 6 100gm skeins. Message me now to secure your order!
Because once its gone that's it!

AU Domestic postage 1-2 packs $14.55. 3-4 packs $17.65.

03/04/2018

Tuesday Tools & Patterns!

A Storybook Knitting Book
Willie Wombat and his Friends

By Fran Westfall
Southdown Press, Melbourne
No Date

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01/04/2018

Noosa Weekend Rovings
Tewantin National Park
Huge palms amongst the billabongs.
Mountain biking and walking trails literally at the bottom of our hill.

28/03/2018

Sampling up the Wyndhurst Organic SRS Merino soon to be in stock. There is just something special about knitting with unadulterated real wool.

100% Australian Grown, Processed and Spun.

# 8ply

25/03/2018

Noosa Weekend Rovings
Banksia colour inspiration in the Noosa National Park.
Named after the botanist Joseph Banks who first identified the plant.

21/03/2018

Sample dyeing the new 8 ply SRS Organic Merino from Wyndhurst, SA.

I'm not a dyer but the question was raised as to how it would dye. I had no trouble but you might like to try it for yourself. I love its loft!

#100%Australianmade

14/03/2018

SRS (Non-mulesed) Organic Merino from Wyndhurst, South Australia in 8ply.

Sampling a range of woollen spun yarns in conjunction with Goldfields Mohair Farm.

In the pipeline is the same wool only blended with 5% English Angora. Followed by a blend of 5% Possum.

100% Australian Grown, processed and spun.

#100%Australianmade

06/03/2018

Susan Shaw's Cardigan
8ozs. of 3 ply fi*****ng
Presented with My Home 1943

1940s English star of stage and screen. Born Patsy Sloots in 1929. Died in 1978 at the age of 50 due to the effects of alcoholism.

Modelled for various knitting companies.

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26/01/2018

Found Friday!
Patons Sultan Wool
50g
Made in South Africa
Patons & Baldwins
Shade 211 Lot 53
Mothpoofed

Pure vintage Patons! My face lit up when I saw the original label.

But South Africa? I had no idea Patons had mills there.

&baldwins

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22/01/2018

Milling Monday!
When you spin up a new sample and you freak out because you think you've done something drastically wrong as the skein doubles back on itself in a hideous manner... REMEMBER... you need to wash it!
Result? Perfect Australian Merino Wool 18 micron 4 ply (2/135 tex).
Sigh... Devine!

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Tinbeerwah, QLD
4563

Website

http://www.paddocktoply.com.au/

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Milling Monday! This is definitely NOT how the roving machine should run. You might notice that the rear top roller is running backwards! #milling #fibremill #fibreprocessing #worstedspinning #woolprocessing #australianwool #wool #finespinning #rovingmachine

Our first test run. This old girl probably hasn't been put through her paces in decade. She fine spins so beautifully and makes it look effortless. I knew she could do it!