Custom Woolen Mills

The vendor describes itself as a small, family owned and operated mill in its second generation, founded in 1975 by Fen Roessingh and Bill Purves-Smith and operating as Custom Woolen Mills Ltd. Corporations Canada returned zero results for the name, which points to an Alberta provincial corporation; the Alberta Corporate Registry could not be checked, and no Wikidata entry, CANADA List row, or press report on the ownership was found. No sale, investor, or parent company is mentioned anywhere on the site.

• About Us - Custom Woolen Mills vendor_statement “Custom Woolen Mills is a small, family owned and operated woolen mill located near Carstairs, Alberta, Canada.”
• About Us - Custom Woolen Mills vendor_statement “Combined, the new mill was called Custom Woolen Mills Ltd. Wool Carding and Spinning, but everyone just called it Custom Woolen Mills for short.”
• Mill Tours Calgary | Calgary Day Trip | Custom Woolen Mills vendor_statement “Custom Woolen Mills started in 1975 as a small family business and, now in its second generation, has grown from producing 40,000 lb/year to 100,000 lb/year.”
• Search for a Federal Corporation - Online Filing Centre - Corporations Canada - Corporations - Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada registry “Corporate name: Custom Woolen Mills 0 results were found, 0 returned.”

The vendor states that every processing step, from washing raw wool through dyeing, carding, spinning, knitting, and quilting, happens at its own mill near Carstairs, Alberta, and that it makes all its products there. Self-guided tours of the working mill are offered, and madeinca.ca lists the same manufacturing location. No contract manufacturing is mentioned.

• FAQs - Custom Woolen Mills vendor_statement “We then do all steps of processing, from the raw wool to finished product, right at our mill in rural Alberta!”
• Contact - Custom Woolen Mills vendor_statement “30453 Range Road 27-2, Alberta”
• Best Sock Brands in Canada | Made in CA directory “Custom Woolen Mills Ltd Manufacturing Location: Carstairs, Alberta Where To Buy: Online and the mill”

A single-site business: the mill, showroom, office, and shipping all operate from the rural property at 30453 Range Road 27-2 near Carstairs, Alberta, per the vendor's contact and about pages. No employee count is published, but nothing suggests staff anywhere else.

• Contact - Custom Woolen Mills vendor_statement “30453 Range Road 27-2, Alberta”
• About Us - Custom Woolen Mills vendor_statement “Custom Woolen Mills is a small, family owned and operated woolen mill located near Carstairs, Alberta, Canada.”

The vendor states its wool comes directly from sheep farms in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia, with some from Manitoba and the Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers, and that alpaca and other exotic fibres are also Canadian-sourced. It also says it imports the cotton, hemp, and linen fabrics for its bedding because no Canadian source exists, and the nylon in its wool-nylon socks has no stated origin. The 0.8/0.2 split puts wool and fibre in Canada and the imported fabrics and nylon to OTHER; it is an estimate, since no share by material is published and the import countries are not named.

• FAQs - Custom Woolen Mills vendor_statement “Of course, we do import the cotton, hemp, and linen fabrics for our wool bedding as there are no Canadian origin sources of these textiles.”
• About Us - Custom Woolen Mills vendor_statement “The wool we use is sourced directly from farmers in Western Canada and through the Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers, then hand-sorted at our mill to ensure the best possible product.”
• Canadian-Made Custom Wool Socks | Custom Woolen Mills vendor_statement “All of our pure wool and custom wool socks are spun from 100% pure new wool and exotic fibre blends sourced directly from farmers in Canada.”