British Wool Dog Leads
The Sheep Shed.
Hand-spliced British wool rope leads. Solid brass, load-tested by the fitting's manufacturer. Made in Britain.
Green Dog's British wool range: hand-woven collars and leads made in Britain from Brampton, Dingley and Swaledale wool.
4 pieces · handmade to order
4 pieces, £58 to £68. Every piece is handmade to order in Britain, and dispatched in two to six working days.
Add a collar to your order and 10% comes off the lead. No code needed: it comes off at checkout.
The Sheep Shed
Wool & Hybrid Leads
The leads. The Brampton and The Swaledale are 14mm British wool rope at 130cm, hand-spliced and whipped over by hand with 1mm hemp cord, finished with a veg-tanned tab and solid brass. The Hybrid rope leads put a wool whipping and a BioThane® stopper on 10mm rope, as a clip lead, slip, figure of 8 or hands-free at 8ft. Collar and lead in the same basket takes 10% off the lead automatically.
The collars. Hand-woven Brampton and Dingley wool over a 19mm BioThane® adjustable strap. Take a fixed colourway, or build your own and choose the weave, the strap colour, the keeper and the finish on every piece of metal. Six sizes from 9 to 26 inches, and a small breed Mini from 8 to 13.
Find the right lead length
Every length made in this collection. Leads here run 130 to 130cm.
Hybrid
Hybrid
Nothing here
is an accident.
Every material in The Sheep Shed was chosen carefully. British wool for warmth, texture and natural odour resistance. BioThane® for the collar strap, because it is fully waterproof and wipes clean, and a wet British winter is the normal case rather than the exception. Veg-tanned cowhide on the leads, because it ages into something better rather than wearing out. Solid brass because it holds its structure and its finish under load. None of it was chosen for convenience.
British wool, graded and spun in Yorkshire, and laid into rope in Britain. It arrives here as finished rope and braid, and is then woven entirely by hand. Naturally odour resistant, breathable and warm. The weave distributes pressure evenly across the collar, kinder on the neck than a single-strand design and more comfortable on long walks. Ages beautifully.
Veg-tanned cowhide, Italian, French or British, chosen for each piece rather than to a single origin, then cut, detailed and finished by hand. On the wool leads it is the tab at the handle, and it is the part that ages, taking on a patina with every walk rather than wearing out. It is also the strap on the wool collars made for Daylesford, in brown and black.
The strap the wool is woven around on every collar sold here. Fully waterproof, wipe-clean, and it needs no conditioning. The wool itself is untreated, so it will felt a little with wear, which tightens the weave. For the dog who works, walks in mud, or simply refuses to stay clean.
British wool.
Modern materials.
The Sheep Shed Hybrid range brings together what Green Dog does best. British wool woven by hand, combined with 10mm PPM rope and BioThane® in colours that feel like they were made for each other.
Three materials. One piece. The rope for comfort and character. The BioThane® for waterproof detail and colour. The wool for something no factory can replicate.
The kind of thing that only comes from a studio.
Made by hand.
Every single one.
Every piece in The Sheep Shed is made by hand in Britain. Not a supply chain. A standard. British wool, graded and spun in Yorkshire, and laid into rope in Britain. It arrives here as finished rope and braid, and the weaving and the splicing are done by hand, one piece at a time. The hardware is solid brass on the leads and the fixed colourways, and on the custom collars the finish is yours to choose. None of it is cheap because none of it is meant to be. This is the range I set out to build from the beginning.
The leads in the Sheep Shed are made two ways. The Swaledale and the Brampton are 14mm British wool, hand-spliced and then whipped over with 1mm hemp cord, with a veg-tanned cowhide tab at the handle: brown on the Swaledale, black on the Brampton. Swaledale is a native Yorkshire breed; Brampton is the charcoal grey wool, an undyed colourway rather than a breed or a place.
The rope is also made for seaweed farming and has been tested by its maker submerged in seawater over 90, 180 and 270 days.
The Hybrid leads are nylon or PPM rope hand-whipped with 2mm wool instead. Made in Britain, two to six working days on the bench before dispatch, then one to two working days for UK tracked post. The woven wool collars use the same wool as a flat braid rather than as rope, and the wider rope and paracord range is there if you want the handling of a synthetic rope without the wool.
The Perfect Fit Guarantee covers the handle as well as the length. Tell me what is wrong and I will re-cut or rebuild it, at no charge for the work itself. I pay the postage both ways when the error is mine; when the length or setup simply did not suit you, the postage is yours. Where a lead is bought as shown rather than built to your own spec, it is an ordinary purchase and you have 30 days from receipt to change your mind, unworn and in the original packaging. The returns page has both.