About Us

New Wave Fibre started out as friends, Emily McIvor and Jodi Schamberger: Two sheep farmers on two of the Southern Gulf Islands located on the West Coast of British Columbia. We raise fibre primary flocks of sheep and work with a series of Canadian wool mills to create stunning hand dyed and natural coloured yarns, roving and raw and washed wool for you!

Over the past years we have settled comfortably into our preferred roles. Jodi has more sheep and provides more fleeces. She also does most of our lichen dyeing for hat kits. Emily has fewer sheep but she manages all of the interactions with the mills including yarn design and shipping. Emily does the production dyeing; the marketing and the web based communications. 

Jodi grew up in New Zealand where sheep are everywhere and when she moved to Canada in her teens, she trained as an animal trainer, working with livestock guardian dogs and draft horses near Hazelton before relocating to Pender Island where she also grows organic blueberries on a historic 160 acre farm.

Emily grew up in Victoria where a background in working class politics and art informed her work in the areas of community food systems development and landscape design and installation. She moved to Thetis Island where she stewards 70 acres of mixed forest and farmland and raises sheep.

Aside from our lovely shared flock of sheep, what we have in common is a passionate belief in environmental and social sustainability; a fascination for creating our own clothes and domestic textiles. And a love of New Wave music!