Mortels Sheepskin Factory

Sheepskin ugg boots Ugg boots are the classic Australian name made somewhere else, because the best-known UGG brand belongs to an American company. Mortels is the plain-dealing alternative: Australian owned since it was founded in 1958, and making its boots and other sheepskin goods from Australian sheepskins at its own base in Thornton, New South Wales. Real sheepskin, with the wool still on the hide, is the whole point of an ugg, and a maker that works from Australian skins in its own factory is the surest way to get it. If you are driving through the Hunter, the giant ugg boots outside the factory are hard to miss.