At MiniJumbuk, every quilt tells a story of craftsmanship and care. For 50 years, we’ve been handcrafting premium wool bedding in the heart of Naracoorte, South Australia.
Our team of loyal, skilled artisans with their commitment to quality handcraft our products with the care and attention to detail that is at the heart of everything we do.
All of our wool is sourced within Australia, with the Limestone Coast Range having featuring sourced wool. Thriving in an idyllic, undulating rural landscape, these sheep provide superb quality fleeces to ensure we can offer our customers Australia's finest wool bedding.
Airlight Technology™
The first step is to create the Airlight Technology™ wool filling to go inside the quilt. Clean Australian wool is unpacked from bales and fed into our large state of the art carding machine.
This high tech process uses rotating drums covered in short fine wire teeth to tease apart and disentangle the wool to separate and align the fibres. The fluffy, air filled web of Australian wool that comes out of the carding machine is called a batt. Layers of this batting are gently laid on top of each other using a lapping machine to assemble the filling for the quilt.
Quilting
In the quilting area, rolls of top quality cotton fabric are cut to size on a large computer controlled cutting table. At the quilting table we select the right size frame for the quilt being produced. The cut piece of cotton is attached to the edges of the frame using sharp steel pins built into the frame. The wool filling is then rolled out onto the fabric, and another layer of cotton is placed on top and pinned to the frame to make cotton and wool.
The next step in the process is for our quilting machine to quilt the top cotton sheet, the wool filling and the bottom sheet together using a pre-programmed stitching pattern. Finally, the edges of the quilt are bound together, with the quilt gently floating on a cushion of air so it can easily be manoeuvred past the sewing head. As part of this process, the product and care instruction labels are also sewn on.
Finishing and Inspection
The finished Australian wool quilt is then closely inspected for any faults. If it passes the inspection, it's folded up and slipped into a packing box and taken to our warehouse ready for trucking to a retailer somewhere in Australia.