FINNSHEEP Raw Fleece, Sienna 2021, 2 pounds 14.8 ounces, fawn, free shipping

This is Siennas’s 2021 Raw Fleece. Sienna is a purebred finnsheep that was coated/ jacketed most of the year. Very low on VM (vegetable matter- hay, straw, grass from the pasture). I skirted it myself. I’m a hand spinner as well as a shepherd. I dislike VM as much as the next spinner…in fact, maybe more so. I get a little ruthless about skirting and removing all wool that has VM in it so you are only getting nice wool with Point of View Farm fleeces. It weighs 2 pounds 14.8 ounces. Sienna pits her energy into growing some FINE crimp in her fleeces rather than length of staple.

Raw fleece means it has not been washed yet so it will smell like a sheep and need washing either before or after spinning. The fleece was carefully and professionally shorn off Sienna New Zealand style (in a single piece) by a shearer who takes pride in his work, is careful, gentle and knows what he is doing. This shearer has shorn award winning fleeces at Rhinebeck and Maryland Fleece show and sales for many years for our farm and others. He has been shearing sheep for decades and is a good friend too. Check out the photo of it I took while it was on the skirting table after shearing.

Sienna was born at Point of View Farm in 2018. Her technical color genetics are a brown based agouti blue. She is registered as a brown badgerface. In lay terms, that means she is both a color and a pattern. The pattern (agouti blue) ‘makes’ portions of her brown fleece lighter, mostly the saddle area. Since this is the wool area you purchase when you buy a coated fleece from us much of what is in the bag is her lighter colored fawn wool (and why is is labeled as so). It is a creamy light color. Not white but, very very light. Generally, the brown portions of her fleece have been skirted off. These are the less desirable wool areas on a sheep including the belly, britch and neck which are often, short, dirty or not as soft. There is a little brown wool in the fleece bag though. If you want a brown please check out Point of View’s solid brown fleeces.

Finnsheep fleece takes dye like a dream and would also blend beautifully with other wools where you want to add luster and drape. It is also known to felt quite nicely.

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