FINNSHEEP Raw Fleece, Sapphire 2020, 3 pounds 5 ounces, variegated brown (brown badgerface)

This is Sapphire’s 2020 Raw Fleece. Her fleece was coated/ jacketed most of the year so is very low on VM (vegetable matter- hay, straw, grass from the pastures, etc..). I also skirted it myself. It weighs 3 pounds 5 ounces. Raw fleece means it has not been washed yet. The fleece was carefully and professionally shorn off Sapphire in a single piece New Zealand style.

Sapphire was born at Point of View Farm in 2012. We love her curly fleece that has loads of shine and curls like a long wool sheep. She has an atypical finnsheep fleece. She one of the early registered brown badgerface sheep born in the US and helped add genetic diversity to this double recessive color/pattern combination in the Point of View Farm flock. The genetic agouti pattern that makes Sapphire’s fleece this color is technically called Agouti dark blue so that is why you sometimes hear fleeces being referred to as “blue”. She is a grandma and great grandma to some of our younger finnsheep in the flock.

Sapphire is a purebred registered finnsheep and also quite friendly. She is a bit of a flock leader here. This fleece takes dye like a dream and would also blend beautifully with mohair as it has that high luster quality to it.

If you prefer washed wool for your project, please check out the Point of View Farm roving.