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Welcome to the Natural World of Baavet
  • And we think our Baavets are superior to any other wool duvet because....
  • We have 100 years of Manufacturing and Farming experience going into making a Baavet
  • We don't use chemicals on the wool or bleach our wool
  • We don't bond our wool to polymers nor use a polypropylene inter liner.
  • Our wool comes especially just for us from Irish farmers.
  • Our cotton is specially made just for us, it's the finest quality 250 thread count, which is then put through a calendaring heat process to make it completely fibre proof.
  • We professionally card(comb) our wool and quilt our own products to the highest standards.
  • We are so confident of the quality of our product that you can try it for a month and if it doesn't do what we say, or for any other reason whatsoever, we will replace it or refund your money. Even our BARGAIN BOX .....
  • That's everything we sell to you..
  • Our Baavets are very specially made and very specially made just for you. Customer satisfaction is our top priority.
  • Its a world class product, a product and company you can trust
THE BAAVET STORY

Roger and Lesley’s story

We came to North Wales 16 years ago and bought a traditional hill sheep farm in the Snowdonia National Park. The farm is only 60 acres and it wasn’t big enough to make a living so we have always had to diversify. As my wife and I are experienced outdoor instructors our first venture was a small but successful adventure activity company. We then did the usual farm thing of converting 4 barns into self catering units. Then in 2009 having reached the official retirement age I decided to hand over my mountaineering boots to some younger people in the village and concentrate on the farm. But we still needed another income to replace the adventure activities.

On May 4th at 7.30pm we set out by car to visit a very close friend who lived in Harlech, just 4 miles away, a trip of perhaps 15 minutes when I had a Road to Damascus moment.

Lesley said, "Come on then what do you want to do next on,"
"I really don’t know," I replied, "but it will probably have to be something to do with wool because wool has no value"
"Like what?"
Then I was suddenly hit by a bolt of lightening on my Damascus road.
"Let’s reinvent the wool blanket," I blurted out.
"What kind of wool blanket?" asked my wife?
"Oh I don’t know." I replied. But then added, "Let’s stuff wool into a duvet"
"What?" she said, "You can’t stuff wool into a duvet and if you could no one would buy it because wool sounds heavy, itchy, and old fashioned like your grannies blanket."
Just at that moment the same bolt of lightning came round for a second time and hit Lesley who blurted out.
"But if you can stuff wool into a duvet we would have to call it something else…."
"What?" I said
"We’ll have to call it a Baa...vet!"

We arrived at our friend’s house and eagerly told them our idea and they thought it was fantastic. And so the Baavet was born
All we had to do now was to get someone to make one. That should be easy!
.... And that was our first mistake.

As no one we spoke to had ever heard of a wool duvet I thought I had reinvented the wheel but my son, who is big into computers, quickly found that they made wool duvets in New Zealand. I was a little down hearted at first to find that my idea wasn’t original but at least the technology for making them obviously existed.

Full of naive enthusiasm our first port of call for help was the British Wool Marketing Board, they didn’t know of anyone that could make one for us but they gave us some very useful contacts like the Wool Testing Authority who were very helpful in tracking down the best British wools to use for a duvet as not all wools are right for the job.

After several months searching it became obvious that there was no one in the UK that could manufacture our Baavets.

But eventually via numerous leads we arrived at the factory of David Edge, in Huddersfield, who had one of the few remaining wool carding lines left in the UK that could card wool (combing the wool) to the width we required. Although David is well beyond retirement age himself he still loves a challenge so he was keen to help us develop the product. But he had no knowledge of quilting, so then had to find someone who knew about quilting.

To cut a long story short the next 2 years was a whole series of trial and error and lots of tribulation and that’s when we made our second mistake!........
We were sucked into the world of manufacturing as we thought with a little help we could make them ourselves. We bought a multi-needle quilting machine and David Edge and his son (also David) using their engineering skills set about building a wool carding and quilting line in David’s Huddersfield Mill. This has resulted in creating the only, and probably the first wool quilting line in the UK.

While the two David’s were struggling with the technical side of the initial stages of the process, my wife and I set up a small factory unit in Snowdonia to convert the rolls of quilt made in Huddersfield into the individual duvets. Our only experience of sewing was on my wife’s singer sewing machine..... That was our third mistake as we had no idea which machines to buy or how to use them. More trial and error and mistakes but eventually my wife has become very competent at not only at operating industrial sewing machines but she has also mastered many of the technical problems when things breakdown managing to keep everything running smoothly.

We launched our wool products on the internet 5 years ago with the help of my son and his social media skills and we have been amazed at the public’s response to our Baavets.
Apart from ourselves we now employ 4 people full time and 5 part time and we have secured 2 jobs in the wool carding mill in Huddersfield and we have doubled our turnover year on year and in the last 3 years. Since then we have launched several product lines, Pure wool Mattress toppers, pure wool pillows, Baby Baavets and Pure wool Pet Baavets. And currently we are working on a pure wool mattress.

It’s been a huge learning curve for all of us and we are still tweaking things to enable a smoother running of the machinery, especially in Huddersfield as things are never perfect in manufacturing. We have also learned a great deal more about the technical qualities of wool and I can say quite categorically that wool is far superior to polyester, feather or down duvets or for that matter silk duvets.

Wool is the finest fibre on the planet to sleep under. Wool is also excellent for asthma, eczema suffers and for any one with overheating problems in bed.

In the ongoing process of trial and error our Baavet quilt design has changed several times and we now have a quilting pattern and fine carding which we believe is superior to other wool duvet products.
I would say that we probably make the finest duvet on the planet well that’s what our customers keep telling us…and, if it wasn’t for their genuine appreciation of the quality of the product, we would have given up years ago when the going was really tough.

If you don’t believe me you can try one as we are that confident in our products. And we are the only company that will guarantee you your money back if it doesn’t give you the best nights sleep ever. That’s any duvet company not just wool duvet companies.