Fiber Content: Blue Faced Leicester, Cormo, Shetland Cross

Featured Animal(s): Frankie

Fiber Diameter: Fine

Fiber Length: 3-5"

Colors: Charcoal Black and Ivory

Raw Wool from Frankie sold by the 1/2 fleece. I split the fleeces down the back, so each half includes neck, back, and britch.

Frankie's fleece is weird and wonderful! It is VERY soft and has LOTS of crimp. But the best part is the almost white combined with the gorgeous charcoal black. the white and the black have slightly different crimp styles and the white is about .25-.5" shorter than the black. 

Some years I seperate out the two colors and processes them individually, and some years I combine them and blend them together to make fabulous dark heathered roving that I then dye. Soooooooo yummy!

We do not coat our sheep. Since we take in a lot of scratch and dent and down on their luck animals, we offer hay year-round. The goal is chubby, healthy, happy animals, and it it is hard for them to be happy in a coat in our 100 degree August afternoons. 

The Little Farm: Our farm is the happy home of a small flock of scratch and dent, down on their luck, and ready for retirement angora, cashgora, and pygmy angora cross goats and Shetland sheep. They are adorable and silly and sweet. They serve the dual purpose of keeping our non arable land mowed and producing high quality, super fine, luxury mohair and wool for spinners, dyers, weaver, and other fiber artists.

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