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Fiber Info and Gallery here Price : $0.00 Sold out Animal Fibers Alpaca It is light weight or heavy weight, depending on how it is spun. It is soft, durable, luxurious and silky natural fiber. While similar to sheep’s Alpaca is naturally water-repellent. wool, it is warmer, not prickly, and has no lanolin which makes it hypoallergenic. Huacaya, an alpaca that grows soft spongy fiber has natural crimp, thus making a naturally elastic yarn, perfect for knits. Suri has far less crimp and thus is best suited for woven goods, but is wonderfully luxurious as well. Good quality alpaca fiber is approximately 18 to 25 micrometres in diameter. Angora Angora Wool or Angora fiber refers to the downy coat produced by the Angora rabbit. Angora is prized for its softness, thin fibers of around 12-16 micrometres for quality fiber, and what knitters refer to as a halo (fluffiness). The fiber felts very easily. Angora fiber comes in white, black, and various shades of brown. Blue Faced Leicester The Bluefaced Leicester is classified as a longwool breed with a staple length of 3” – 6”, a fleece weight of 2 ½ - 4 ½ lbs., and a fiber diameter of 56’s – 60’s count, or 24-28 microns; creating high quality luster yarns with handle and drape. Cashmere Cashmere wool, usually simply known as cashmere, is a fiber obtained from the Cashmere goat. The word cashmere derives from an old spelling of Kashmir. Cashmere wool is fine in texture, and it is also strong, light, and soft; when it is made into garments, they are extremely warm to wear. Cormo Cormos sheep produce a long stapled, high yielding fine-wool fleece with a high degree of fiber uniformity Corriedale Corriedale is a Merino-Lincoln-Leicester cross-breed. Corriedale fiber is excellent for felting, is durable and has lots of loft, memory and a distinctive crimp. Jacob The fleeces from Jacobs are a delight for handspinners and for the connoisseur of natural color. They are light and open, weighing between 3 and 6 pounds and having a stable length of 4 to 7 inches. They part easily, exposing a soft, medium wool with healthy luster and sheen. The average micron size is 34 and ranges on the Bradford scale from 48 to 54. Due to the spotting of these animals, the wool can be spun into a complete spectrum from white through gray/lilac to black. Lincoln The Lincoln is one of the world's largest breeds of sheep. Its fleece is the heaviest, longest-stapled and most lustrous of any breed in the world. Merino Merino wool is finely crimped and soft. Staples are commonly 65 mm (2.5 inches) to 100 mm (4 inches) long. A Saxon Merino produces 3 kg (6.6 lbs) to 6 kg (13.2 lbs) of greasy wool a year while a good quality Peppin Merino ram produces up to 18 kg (39.6 lbs). Merino wool is generally less than 24 micron in diameter. Basic Merino types include: strong (broad) wool 23 - 24.5, medium wool is 19.6 - 22.9, fine 18.6 - 19.5, superfine 15 - 18.5 and ultra fine 11.5 - 15. Ultra fine wool is suitable for blending with other fibres such as silk and cashmere. New Zealand produces lightweight knits made from Merino wool and possum fur. Mohair Mohair usually refers to a silk-like fabric or yarn made from the hair of the Angora goat. The word "mohair" was adopted into English before 1570 from the Arabic mukhayyar, a type of haircloth, literally 'choice', from khayyara, 'he chose'. Mohair fiber is approximately 25-45 microns in dimater. It is one of the oldest textile fibers in use. It is both durable and resilient. It is notable for its high luster and sheen, and is often used in fiber blends to add these qualities to a textile. Mohair also takes dye exceptionally well. Mohair is also warm as it has great insulating properties. It is durable, moisture-wicking, stretch and flame resistant, and crease resistant. Rambouillet The Rambouillet is known for its superior, long staple, dense, fine wool.  A light-shrinking staple of three inches or better results in greater thread length hence more thread produced per pound of wool. Fine wool means the threads are thinner and finer, again resulting in a higher thread count. Romney Their long, lustrous fleeces are sought by hand spinners. Shetland Shetland wool is soft, durable, and warm, and the finest of any wool produced by a British breed. Fleece type can vary among sheep—from a well-developed crimp (sometimes described as ‘kindly’ or soft) to a wavy, sturdy fiber with a silky hand (‘beaver’ or double-coated). Staple length will also vary, but typically is about four inches. The wool comes in a variety of color (there are 11 official colors and 30 markings—some very rare). Targhee Targhee is a heavy fleece of high quality wool. The yarn made from this fiber is lofty with elasticity. Wensleydale Wool from the Wensleydale is acknowledged as the finest lustre long wool in the world. Yak Each yak produces around 2.5 kg (5.5 lb) annually of a mixture of hair and fine downy fiber; high-yielding types may produce as much as 25 kg (55 lb). The fiber is combed or shed from the yak, and the hair separated from the down. The hair is used to make ropes, rugs and various other products. The down is soft and smooth and about 3 cm (1.2 in) 1.2 inches long, and it can be spun into yarn for knitting. The average fineness of down from an adult yak is 18-20 microns, while the length is around 30 to 40 mm (1.2 to 1.6 in). Yaks that live in higher altitudes have finer fiber. The most common natural color of the yak is a dark chocolate brown, but can also be found in white, tan, and grey. Unlike wool, the scales of yak fiber are in a waved mosaic pattern, resulting in a very smooth fiber that does not itch. Vegetable Fibers Bamboo Bamboo fiber has extremely soft and comfortable hand feel and beautiful luster similar to silk. Silk Silk fiber is one of the strongest natural fibers and makes a wonderful knitting yarn. It blends really well with other fibers, especially wool. This has the added benefit of cutting down the cost. Silk has less elasticity than wool and when stretched, a small amount does not return to it's original length – but while it may not retain its shape like wool, it does have a lovely draping quality. It also won't shrink like wool and because the fiber is a smooth filament, it is comfortable against the skin. Like wool, silk has good moisture absorbency and is a poor conductor of heat – so it is comfortable in both summer and winter. Superwash Superwash is the process of making wool fibers shrink resistant. This means that your yarn can be machine washed. Gallery	Shopping Cart Is Empty

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