WOOL FLEECES from FORESTFIBRES
The fleece wool offered for sale in our eBay shop has been sourced and hand selected by ourselves. We currently handle in excess of 150kg of fleeces each year; these are carefully washed and sorted to offer our customers the largest range of named British Breed fleece wool available in one shop. Our fleeces are washed in warm water and liquid laundry detergent, often two or three times for particularly mucky fleeces.
The fleece wool we supply will be representative of the wool from a named breed. If, like many of us, you have been used to working with wool tops, you will find using washed (or raw) wool a very different experience. As a natural product, the wool in every fleece will vary in both colour and texture. Two fleeces from the same breed are rarely the same!
We wash all the fleece we send out, but you will still find some of the natural grease (lanolin) left in the wool. This will help with the handspinning process; if you are going to dye or felt the wool we recommend you give the fleece a further wash. The longwool fleeces, such as Wensleydale, Cotswold and Lincoln, naturally trap dirt in the long curls – any remaining after washing will usually drop out when carding or combing the wool before spinning.
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