Loro Piana_ Australia and New Zealand
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The Record Bale Award,
started in 1999,
is an icon of the wool industry.
I feel so lucky to have the opportunity
to look for the best quality
from material around the world.
Australia and New Zealand
are the perfect places
to breed wool.
A beautiful, soft handling,
very finely crimped.
We produce such fine wool
because we have a very
intensive grading program
to produce the very finest
wool sheep in the world.
Sheep are wonderful creatures,
and I love working with them.
I love wool.
And our flock is a little bit special
in that they are all natural colored Merinos,
black, gray, and brown.
The Saxon Merino has the most
exquisite wool that you could ever find.
The color is exquisite,
and the handle is exquisite.
To be able to produce wool
of such high quality
gives you a great sense
of achievement and accomplishment.
We have around between 10,000 and 11,000 sheep.
It's the genetics.
We've got the finest breeding stock
in the world,
and we just select the best
of the best from those.
And from there,
we could obtain the finest fiber.
We love growing the best wool
in the world.
Loro Piana buys the highest quality,
ultra fine wool.
The open cry auctions,
it's an old traditional method
of selling and it's been around
since the early 1900s, probably even earlier.
Looks quite chaotic,
and there's a lot of yelling.
Millbank was purchased
by my grandfather in 1932.
My father took over in 1960.
And then my brother Russ and I
have continued that passion
of wool growing
when we took over in 1997.
The secret of producing
such a rare fine fiber
is to have happy, healthy sheep.
And here at Millbank, the environment
is ideal for the sheep production.
The highest level of farming,
the respect for nature,
respect for the animals.
In fifteen years of research
on the Record Bale,
we bettered the finesses of the wool
about close to 30%.
It is amazing.
This is not plastic.
This is not iron.
This is not something that you can create.
It's what nature creates.
The Loro Piana Record Bale
is really a small incentive,
but it's very important to them.
It's very important to us
that we have established
such direct relationship
with all of them.
We are very happy and proud
to award the ones
who make the best wool.
The Loro Piana mission
is to discover the best,
process the best to make the best product.