Natural Color handspinning felting Wool

Merino 64's

Natural white Wool

Merino 64's Superwash Natural white Wool

Merino 80's

Natural white Wool

Machine Washable

Natural white Wool

Wensleydale Wool

Long wool, Lustrous Natural white Wool

Colonial Wool

Corriedale type Natural white Wool

Blue Faced Leicester,

Nice Hand, Long Staple

Natural white Wool

Black Blue Faced Leicester

Yummy - Soft

Brown Select Jacob

Shetland

Grey Wensleydale

Superwash fibers have been treated with a polymer coating, laying down the wool scales that cause shrinkage and felting. These wool yarns feel smoother or slicker. A garment crafted with this yarn can safely be washed in the wash machine on the gentle cycle. Lay flat to dry rather than using the dryer. Natural fiber shampoo is recommended, such as Kookabura Wool Wash.

Blood System: It was agreed upon by breeders that Merino fleece was about 2 1/2 inches long and the fiber diameter was very fine and the crimp was very small and close together. This set the standard for comparison and it would be called "Fine". Results, if you bred a Merino to some other non-Merino sheep the offspring would be half Merino, and you would expect that lamb's wool to have half the character of the Merino fleece. Further, since most other sheep have longer, coarser wool than Merinos do, you would expect that half of the character of that lamb's wool would also be longer and coarser. So, what you would get is called a 1/2 blood fleece and you it to have a larger fiber diameter than Merino wool, a somewhat larger crimp, and a longer staple length. Then, if you crossed that half blood lamb with another sheep the offspring's wool would be called a 3/8ths blood fleece, and so on.

English (Bradford) Spinning Count System. It is the number of hanks of yarn, each 560 yards in length, that it is possible to spin from one pound of clean wool. The finer the wool fiber, the more hanks (greater length, thinner yarn) that can be obtained from one pound. Comparison is an approximation, there can be some differences within the breed from animal to animal.

Microns is the measurement of the wool under a microscope.

	Blood System	Staple Length	Count	Microns
Merino 80's	Fine Wool	2 1/2 inches	80's-64's	18 - 22
Rambouillet			70's-60's	19 to 25
New Zealand Merino 64's	1/2 Blood	3 inches	70's-60's	20 to 25
Targhee & Romeldale			62's-58's	22 to 26
Corriedale & Columbia			62's-46's	22 to 34
Southdown			60's-50's	24 to 31
Blue Faced Leicester	3/8 Blood	3 1/2 inches	60's-56's	24 to 28
Suffolk, Dorset Horn, Montadale			58's-50's	25 to 31
Finns & Cheviot	1/4 Blood	4 inches	58's-48's	25 to 32
Oxford			50's-46's	29 to 34
Romney	Low 1/4	4 1/2 inches	48's-44's	31 to 36
Border Leicester	Common	5 inches	46's-40's	33 to 38
Lincoln & Cotswold	Braid	6 inches	40's-36's	37 to 40