FINNSHEEP Raw LAMB Fleece, Pacific 2022, 2 pounds 11.5 ounces, variegated brown/ fawn, free shipping

This is Pacific’s 2022 Raw Fleece. Pacific is a purebred finnsheep LAMB 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 VM so you are only getting nice wool with Point of View Farm fleeces. It weighs 2 pounds 11.5 ounces.

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 Pacific 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.

Pacific was born at Point of View Farm in 2021. This is her first fleece. 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). If you look at the photo of her fleece with the edges rolled in, you will see they are the darker areas. Lamb fleeces, in general, are the softest and finest fleece a sheep will produce in their lifetime. They require care when processing and can yield such amazing soft yarn.

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.