About Us
Located in Lerwick, capital of Shetland, Jamieson & Smith
Shetland Wool Brokers Ltd, are long established as the islands biggest
buyer of the Shetland Wool clip and during
the 2007 season we purchased in excess of 240,000 kilos of the Island's
total raw wool production.
The company was founded during the 1930's by the Smith family
of Berry Farm, Scalloway and, as the business grew, re-located to our
current premises in Lerwick.
In 2004 the company was sold to the current owners, Curtis Wool Direct,
an international wool group based in Bradford, West Yorkshire
Situated in the centre of Lerwick's Old North
Road, and overlooking the harbour, our premises are in an excellent
central location for
the
Island's
farmers and crofters to deliver their wool clip.
We have traditionally catered for all scales of Shetland
's wool production and accept deliveries ranging from 10 kilos through
to 6000 kilos and more.
Each suppliers clip is weighed in and recorded on a computerised tracking
system which automatically allocates a grading number. The
raw wool is then carefully graded according to it's quality.
From the very coarse, used for carpets, interlinings and mattresses,
to the very finest soft handling wool used in high quality knitwear.
When grading our finest wool, Super Fine, we must adhere to
the following points.
* Style (crimp), breed characteristics and uniformity of quality.
* Strength, springiness and handle ( softness ).
* Fibre fineness, with high quality Shetland degree of fineness 56s -
60s.
Our wool is then baled according to it's grade and shipped to
one of the companies Bradford depots for further processing.
After further detailed sorting and scouring (washing), most of the wool
is sold on to specialist users in the textile trade.
A percentage of the finest wool is spun into high quality knitting yarns
to be supplied to home users and high quality textile manufacturers via
our retail mail order service.
Also available from ourselves are 100% Shetland Wool tops in their undyed
natural colours. These are ideal for hand spinning and felt making.
It has been brought to our
attention that there is continuing confusion between ourselves
and other Shetland based companies with similar names.
Jamieson & Smith
Shetland Wool Brokers Ltd
would therefore like to make it clear
that we are an independent company and are NOT owned by, or
associated with, any of the following group of companies in
any way.
Jamieson's of Shetland
Jamieson's Spinning,
Jamieson's Knitwear,
Robert Jamieson & Co
The Shetland Weaving Company
We would also like to make it clear that
we DO NOT share any commercial or other business interests
with these companies and, that
we DO NOT purchase any raw wool from outside the Shetland Islands.
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Sheep and
for more information.
Jamieson & Smith
(SHETLAND WOOL BROKERS) Ltd.,
90 North Road
Lerwick
Shetland Islands
United Kingdom
ZE1 OPQ
e-mail – sales@shetlandwoolbrokers.co.uk
Telephone – 01595 693579 Fax – 01595 695009
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