Icelandic retailer Ewe Raw Wool Fleece (Fall Shearing)

This listing is for a lovely Icelandic Ewe Raw Wool Fleece from our fall retailer shearing of 2022. This fleece is the result of 6 months' growth from April - October 2022. Our sheep graze all summer and fall on a prairie pasture in west-central Minnesota.

This fleece comes from our ewe Ena who is a ‘black mouflon ' according to Icelandic color charts. Her fleece is black with gray highlights with a more coarse texture and a staple length of 6 inches. Icelandic wool is dual-coated, and can be handspun into lopi style yarn, or combed to spin the tog and thel separately. This fleece would be ideal for handspinning.

3 pound, 2 oz. of skirted wool with very little vegetable matter (VM) and very few second cuts.

Value-added packaging as the fleece is mailed in a handsewn cotton pillowcase-style bag, perfect for breathable storage.

To unpackage fleece, carefully dump bag contents onto a large table. Slowly unroll fleece, cut side down and locks up. To see how we skirt and roll up our fleece , see our YouTube video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEiUzqmd7Ys