{"id":1840,"date":"2011-09-12T16:16:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T06:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2015-02-23T16:05:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T06:05:40","slug":"environmentally-friendly-coffins-made-of-wool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/environmentally-friendly-coffins-made-of-wool\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmentally friendly coffins &#8211; made of wool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"JC Atkinson - coffins\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coffins.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">JC Atkinson<\/a>, the largest manufacturer and distributor of coffins in the U.K.,\u00a0\u00a0sells more than 60,000 coffins (caskets) per year.\u00a0 JC Atkinson stocks a number of styles that are fully biodegradable, such as coffins made of willow, seagrass and bamboo &#8211; as well as cardboard.\u00a0 However the unique coffin they sell which would appeal to rural Australians, particularly woolgrowers, is the\u00a0&#8216;Natural Legacy&#8217; wool coffin. Developed by\u00a0\u00a0Hainsworth, a Yorkshire textile company more than two centuries old, producing everything from Windsor Castle Royal Guard uniforms to cloths for snooker tables and lining for Rolls Royces, the &#8216;Natural Legacy&#8217; coffin was first sold in 2009.\u00a0 It has a\u00a0frame of recycled cardboard, wooden slats on the bottom, jute support straps\u00a0and an organic cotton lining, and comes with a pillow stuffed with wool.\u00a0 The whole exterior of the coffin is made of\u00a0 wool felt produced by Hainsworth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The woollen &#8216;Natural Legacy&#8217; coffin can carry more than a quarter of a tonne however the wool coffins are said to be especially appreciated by parents purchasing coffins for children (every parent&#8217;s worst nightmare), because it is like wrapping the person who died in a blanket.\u00a0 Woollen ashes caskets are also available.\u00a0 No dies are used so they&#8217;re only available in the two most common\u00a0natural wool colours &#8211;\u00a0white or dark brown.<\/p>\n<p>These woollen coffins are already available in\u00a0Australia but\u00a0 the catch for Australian farmers is that the &#8216;Natural Legacy&#8217; coffins are\u00a0 currently only made of British wool &#8211; the only product that Hainsworth uses British wool for (in an effort to assist British wool producers).\u00a0 As Australian woollen mills are few and far between these days, it&#8217;s unlikely coffins made of Australian wool will ever be made here.\u00a0 However Hainsworth buys most of their wool from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, and if woollen coffin sales increase, their &#8216;Natural legacy&#8217;\u00a0coffins\u00a0may be made of Australian wool in future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JC Atkinson, the largest manufacturer and distributor of coffins in the U.K.,\u00a0\u00a0sells more than 60,000 coffins (caskets) per year.\u00a0 JC Atkinson stocks a number of styles that are fully biodegradable, such as coffins made of willow, seagrass and bamboo &#8211; as well as cardboard.\u00a0 However the unique coffin they sell which would appeal to rural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,65],"tags":[57,82,176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4504,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions\/4504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}