Every year the fleece of the Leeuwarden herd is sent to China as a waste product. (As is most of the fleece of the 1 million sheep in the Netherlands.) To show there is another way, Pleed transformed the fleece shorn from all 200 sheep into blankets.
A total of 88 pleeds (blankets) were made of local wool, and have been on display in a pop-up exhibition in Leeuwarden (25 June until 1 September 2020). 150 volunteers took part in the project: felters, spinners, knitters, and weavers.
Our pop-up expo wa