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Rivenwool Animal Rescue Rivenwool Animal Rescue works to rescue fiber animals and other farm animals in the NoVA area.

Not everything on a remote island in Maine is grey and brown… check out the blooms from last summer! The rich purples an...
10/16/2026

Not everything on a remote island in Maine is grey and brown… check out the blooms from last summer! The rich purples and pinks of the swamp milkweed (not a botanist so correct me if I am wrong) inspired this 100% merino yarn.

Eden’s incredible pic of this artic tern on the shore of Seal Island in Maine inspired my green and grey Seal Island DK ...
10/16/2026

Eden’s incredible pic of this artic tern on the shore of Seal Island in Maine inspired my green and grey Seal Island DK weight yarn. 100% merino wool. So grateful my kiddo was able to spend the summer as a research assistant with Project Puffin in Maine.

It’s almost time for Fall Farm Tour! As many know I have been spending my free time after work dyeing yarn but I have us...
10/16/2026

It’s almost time for Fall Farm Tour! As many know I have been spending my free time after work dyeing yarn but I have used Eden’s summer internship photos in Maine doing Project Puffin as my inspiration. This is a mother/daughter art project that has been a lot of fun. I am working on getting an Etsy shop so those who are too far away can buy this yarn and support the farm. This is 100% merino yarn (not from our animals though we do have some undyed from our own animals too). I will post Eden’s picture and my yarn in several posts so you can enjoy our project. All money is used to support the animals on our farm many of which are rescues.

This is an Eider duck. Eden and I loved their rich browns and greys. They are known to have orange bills and feet with flecks of orange throughout their plumage. The yarn is Worsted weight.

Lucas spent the last several weeks making the most beautiful living sheep rugs. He spent hours and hours and hours wet f...
10/03/2026

Lucas spent the last several weeks making the most beautiful living sheep rugs. He spent hours and hours and hours wet felting and washing whole merino fleeces to Icelandic batting. It was a complete experiment to see if we could get it to work and today at the Waterford Fair we sold our very first rugs!!! Thank you to the two amazing families who bought their beautiful fleece rugs 🧡🧡🧡 We will have a few more available at the Fall Farm Tour in two weeks.

Can you spot all the goats?
08/08/2026

Can you spot all the goats?

07/03/2026

Minutes ago we got the best surprise in the world!!!!! It has taken 6 years to get enough cashmere to blend with our merino into our very first yarn!!!! (Yes Bigfoot and I are like kids in a candy store today lol)

As promised, our newly dyed yarn! This yarn is 100g skeins of fi*****ng weight 70% merino wool, 20% silk, and 10% cashme...
06/29/2026

As promised, our newly dyed yarn! This yarn is 100g skeins of fi*****ng weight 70% merino wool, 20% silk, and 10% cashmere. While this is not from our own herd it is very much representative of them 🧡. We have 4 skeins of each for sale at $30/skein and we will donate $5 from each skein to National Audubon Society in honor of our daughter, Eden, who is currently working as an Project Puffin intern.

The two color-ways are inspired by photos she sent us. The first is of the Puffin’s bill color and the second is a sunrise on Seal Island, ME.

Message us if you would like to purchase a skein.

As many of our family, friends, and neighbors know, Eden is spending the summer in Maine doing an internship with the Au...
06/27/2026

As many of our family, friends, and neighbors know, Eden is spending the summer in Maine doing an internship with the Audubon Society. She is participating in Project Puffin and is one of only a couple of undergrads chosen to spend 12 weeks on the islands off the coast of Maine helping doing sea bird research. She is living in a tent, with no running water and no electricity. She is spending hours a day watching and counting birds, banding chicks, recording what kind of fish they are feeding the babies, and inspecting nests (and being dive bombed by arctic terns). They are studying puffins, razorbills, guillemots, arctic terns, and several others birds. She is LOVING this amazing opportunity and everyday we get a few photos from her.

Lucas and I decided to take two of her photos and use them as inspiration for some yarn dyeing. We have only dyed a few times so it was a big challenge to attempt this! We are loving what we made! Here are the two photos we used as our inspiration. We will do another post tonight or tomorrow once the yarn is dry with the big reveal!

05/30/2026

Boy Scout Troop 962 came over today to help one of the young men build a goat playground for his Eagle Project!!!! All of the goats approve of their use of reusing old playsets. A few more additions (including a goat swing) will go up in a couple of weeks.

Bigfoot decided to try something new with an Icelandic fleece…. A “vegan sheepskin”. Ok we don’t like this name and are ...
04/04/2026

Bigfoot decided to try something new with an Icelandic fleece…. A “vegan sheepskin”. Ok we don’t like this name and are looking for a more realistic name. There is no skin involved. An entire fleece is wet felted to wool backing (our own Icelandic batting) and then is dried and combed. It will eventually look like a sheepskin but have a felted back instead of skin. It takes an entire year of growth on one animal along with many hours of labor to make the rug. Help us come up with a better name for what we hope will be a wonderful regenerative way to make sheep/wool rugs.

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11676 Mica Place
Lovettsville, VA
20180

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+15404545212

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