Heritage yarn
A two-ply yarn listed as 100% wool, with 215 yards per skein and a stated knitting gauge.
Confirm colour, dye lot, quantity and suitability for the intended pattern; screen colours are approximate.
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Briggs & Little
York Mills, New Brunswick
Canadian wool yarn with the blend and gauge spelled out.
Briggs & Little processes wool at its New Brunswick mill and sells yarn for knitting and weaving. Heritage and Durasport give shoppers two clearly different fibre blends, rather than one blanket origin claim across the range.
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The story & the craft.
Briggs & Little traces its York Mills woollen operation to 1857 and describes buying Canadian fleeces through farmers and Canadian Cooperative Wool Growers. The yarn shop makes that mill story practical through two different constructions. Heritage is a two-ply, 100% wool yarn with 215 yards per skein. Durasport is a one-ply blend of 80% wool and 20% nylon, with 430 yards per skein and a different stated gauge.
A sweater or sock project starts with its pattern, so compare the gauge and required yardage before choosing either yarn by name alone. Fibre content and construction also make these separate purchases rather than interchangeable skeins. The contact form provides a route for colour, dye-lot or quantity questions when assembling a project order. Canadian fleece sourcing supports the wool connection, while the nylon and other component origins remain unconfirmed.
What they make & offer.
Durasport yarn
A one-ply yarn listed as 80% wool and 20% nylon, with 430 yards per skein and its own stated gauge.
Canadian wool sourcing does not prove the nylon’s origin. Confirm the pattern gauge and care.
View product detailsBefore you buy or go.
Confirm the exact colour, dye lot, required quantity, pattern gauge and care with the mill. Online colour swatches can differ from the yarn. The Canadian wool claim does not establish the origin of Durasport’s nylon.
The Canadian connection.
York Mills, New Brunswick wool mill. The mill says it buys Canadian fleeces; Heritage is listed as 100% wool and Durasport as 80% wool and 20% nylon. Nylon and other component origins are not proved.
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Stanfield’s
Start with the garment label, then choose the layer.
Stanfield’s offers everyday underwear and wool layers from a long-running Truro manufacturing business. The two selected listings explicitly carry Made in Canada labels; that evidence does not cover every item in its catalogue.
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