FINNSHEEP Raw Fleece, Olympia 2022, 2 pounds 10.4 ounces, fawn, free shipping

This is Olympia’s 2022 Raw Fleece. Olympia is a purebred finnsheep that was coated/ jacketed most of the year. Very low on VM (vegetable matter- hay, straw, grass from the pasture). It is a VERY low vm fleece and skirted tp show standards.  This one is NICE!!!. 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 VM so you are only getting nice wool with Point of View Farm fleeces. I painstakingly pick out all VM I see. It weighs 2 pounds 10.4 ounces. Olympia, like her full sister Olivia, puts her genetics to work into growing some nice crimp in her fleeces. These two ewes are peas in a pod. They are last ewe lambs we kept from their dam Olive who is now retired to live out her years here on the farm as a wool producer and companion. If you would like to help support Olive in her retirement, please reach out to us about our Sponsor a Ewe program for our retired ewes.

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 Olympia 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 photos of it I took while it was on the skirting table. Both sides and all angles are pictured. We want you to know all there is to know about this fleece.

Olympia was born at Point of View Farm in 2017. Her technical color genetics are a brown based agouti blue. She is registered as a brown badgerface. In lay terms, that means she has both a color and a pattern genetically. 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, light. There is some brown wool in the fleece bag that are along the edges of her fleece where her wool is darker colored. Nice variations of color.

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 (please be careful washing unless you want felting to occur).