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Author Topic: Fleeces, giving away or selling outside the wool board system.  (Read 13612 times)

JulieWall

  • Joined Aug 2013
  • Cornhill, Banff
    • The Roundhouse
Re: Fleeces, giving away or selling outside the wool board system.
« Reply #30 on: April 02, 2014, 07:03:42 pm »
I've been giving the fleece I don't want to the shepherd who used to shear my ewes .... before he taught me to do a couple and lost his job  :roflanim:
Think I might have to stop throwing money away  :o I thought they only fetched about 50p.

Note to self; stop listening to grumpy farmers on such matters. :thinking:
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SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Fleeces, giving away or selling outside the wool board system.
« Reply #31 on: April 03, 2014, 02:49:04 am »
I get 4 Zwartbles fleeces each year, from 4 wethers who live the life of riley ;)  :D

The fleeces are huge!

It's easy to wash, doesn't felt, cards well and spins ok.  A friend likes using it blended with trilobal to make knitted slippers. 

All of which said, I wouldn't rush out to buy one.  Being black or very dark grey you can't dye it really (I have done but it's a case of subtle dark tints ;)), it's too short to comb so must be carded, it's not particularly soft (though not harsh either) and not particularly crimpy therefore not particularly sproingy.

I gave a nice one to my local spinning group to sell for funds, suggested they ask £7 and it's still sat in their cupboard (and taking up quite a bit of space as so large!)  Mind, it's unwashed and also has quite a bit of VM in it.

I shall have a go at peg-looming with some of what I have left, spun very very thick, I think, for a rug.  Probably mixed with other fibres.

Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

 

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