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Wool Classing

What is Wool Classing?

Tambo Teddies are made from wool, from Australian sheepskin. We love wool at Teddies, in fact, Alison was a Wool Classer for many years and still holds a deep love of wool. What is Wool Classing? you may ask. Wool classing is the process involved in the production of uniform, predictable, low-risk lines of

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lost tambo teddy bear

Lost but Found

This is a story of a Tambo Teddy who got lost and then found, but was still really lost. Tambo Teddy Basil Bear number 16,128 was out for a day’s adventure. A picnic in park, a road side rest area, a place to stop and stretch his legs. Named Tambo Station Teddles, this wickedly

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Matilda Tambo Teddy Bear

Matilda needs a new home……

Every now and then Tambo Teddy bears are sent home to us, when people find they can no longer care for their bear and need to find him or her a new home. Such is the fate of Matilda, one of only one hundred millennium bears ever created. This little beauty is number seventeen

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Tambo is sheep country!

Tambo is sheep country! The district was discovered by Sir Thomas Mitchell in 1846 and first settled in the early 1860s, the town itself was gazetted in 1863. By 1864 there were 64,000 sheep grazing across the vast Mitchell grass downs country. By 1893, the sheep population was over 570,000 and the people population

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Tambo Teddies wool campaign, campaigned for the use of the Woolmark

Campaigning for Wool

Since the beginning, Tambo Teddies have been created from the best Australian woollen sheepskins, they were even stuffed with wool in the early days. But despite being an Australian made, quality sheepskin product Tambo Teddies was denied the right to use the Australian Woolmark. The body responsible for the promotion of wool in the

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