How rescued sheep make rugs and stll enjoy life Deborah Griffin ’s living rugs owe their existence to a generous husband, a farm that needed income, a chance sighting in the Netherlands and a dread of slaughtering animals. ‘I’ve always loved horses and kept them at a variety of liveries’ she says. ‘But when my husband Kevin sold his business in 2008, one of the first things he did was to buy a 40-acre farm so I could keep my horses at home.’ Sheep came next. Four Herdwicks, followed by four rescue Blue-faced Leicester crosses and finally four Valais Blacknose, an anniversary gift from Kevin. Until she discovered some felted fleece rugs in the Netherlands, Deborah gave her fleeces away. But the farm needed income, so as a result of what the Dutch call ‘vegetarian sheepskin rug

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