Norwegian poncho lambswool

Do you know the soft, thick, warm lambswool blankets from Røros Tweed? We love these cozy colleagues, which keep us warm at our desk or on the sofa in winter and ensure that we can sit out on the terrace for long evenings in summer. The only drawback: if you just want to get up for a moment, you first have to peel yourself out of the blanket and then wrap yourself up again, and often lose the lovely warmth in the process. Røros Tweed therefore came up with the clever idea of producing a poncho - in itself not a novelty in the world of clothing, but the special thing about these models is that they are made from the same tightly woven, soft cloth made from fine lambswool as the Norwegian manufacturer's blankets. With a generous material weight of 450 g/sqm and the double-roughened surface, the voluminous wool fabric can store the heat-insulating air well. The fabric is nevertheless supple and elastic and has a beautifully soft drape.

Woven as a double face with different-colored sides and neatly tied at the edges, the poncho can be worn on both sides. The incision in the front makes the poncho a ruana, strictly speaking - at least in South America, where a linguistic distinction is made between the closed and the open form. The poncho has a very generous cut overall: at two meters wide, it is large enough to wrap yourself all around. Even the shoulders are covered and - advantage poncho - naturally remain covered because a poncho does not slip easily. Thanks to its back length of one meter, the poncho easily reaches over the knees of even tall people, so that they are always warm and soft on the wool fabric. This particularly pleased our almost 1.80 meter tall product manager, who immediately bought such a wool poncho for her home office (in a cold old building) and wouldn't want to swap it for any blanket in the world.

The Norwegian textile company Røros Tweed is characterized by a high level of vertical integration. All production processes, from shearing to weaving, are located in Norway, based on designs created in collaboration with renowned designers, including international ones. The fact that Røros Tweed pays such consistent attention to purely Norwegian production is also due to the appreciation of regional traditions - but not only that.

In Røros, Norway's only mountain town, it all began with a social motivation: the industrialist Peder Hiort (1715 to 1789) had stipulated in his will that his fortune should be used to purchase wool so that the needy of Røros could weave textiles from it in paid homework. Røros Tweed follows in this tradition of responsible action and continues the basic idea of the Hiort Foundation - technically advanced and ecologically minded. The products are designed and manufactured in such a way that the materials used can be reused and returned to the material cycle. This conserves resources, saves material costs and avoids waste.

Røros Tweed only uses wool from sheep farms in the region. The sheep live and graze freely on the pasture, even though the climate there is extremely harsh. At the same time, however, this provides a great advantage, as pests do not even settle in the wool. There is therefore no need for chemical treatment. Thanks to the natural living conditions for the sheep, Norwegian new wool has another special feature: It is very elastic. If you squeeze the raw wool with your hands and then let go, it quickly regains its original volume. This elasticity ensures that Røros blankets are so voluminous - and remain so for a long time.