A LOCAL business is celebrating the best of Cumbria with one of their most popular products. 

Cable & Blake is a fabric business which sells Herdwick fabric that are sourced from local farms and woven on traditional hand looms. 

The scraps of frabric which are left over is used to make novelty mice and sheep gifts, so that no fabric goes to waste. 

The Westmorland Gazette:

The mice and sheep can be seen with some of Cumbria's most popular brands, Incuding, The Westmorland Gazette, Kendal mint cake, Cumbrian Tea and the Tour of Britain which regularly passes through Cumbria. 

Rachel Cabble, creative director of Cable & Blake said, "Anybody local we're doing them to help promote their business." 

Sheep can also be pruchased featuring the audinece survey and kendal mintcake. 

The Westmorland Gazette:

Rachel Cabble, said: "They are very very popular, they are one of our biggest sellers. People come in they want souveneers or gifts to take back to people and they are easy to pick up and buy and put in a bag."

Cable & Blake located on Highgate, Kendal and was set up by the companies two creative directors Rachel Gabble and Alice Blakeney-Edwards four years ago and has just opened their new shop where they are currently based during the coronavirus pandemic.