With this compact portable reference in hand, crafters can quickly and easily look up any of 100 different sheep breeds, the characteristics of their fleece, and the kinds of projects for which their fleece is best suited. Each breed profile includes a photograph of the animal and information about its origin and conservation status, as well as the weight, staple length, fiber diameter, and natural colors of its fleece. This is a great primer for beginners, and a handy guide for anyone who loves working with fleece.
Which wool is right for your project, and what might you do with that big bag of luscious fleece that catches your eye at the fiber festival? The answers to your questions are always at your fingertips in this portable reference to the fleece characteristics of 100 sheep breeds.
For each breed, you'll find: The best way to prepare the fleece for spinning, the natural colors of the fleece and how well it takes dyes, best uses for the wool, fleece weights, staple lengths, and fiber diameters.
Table of Contents:
A Love Affair with Wool
American Miniature Cheviot
Arcotts: Canadian, Outaouais, and Rideau
Badger Face Welsh Mountain
Balwen Welsh Mountain
Beulah Speckled Face
Black Welsh Mountain
Bleu du Maine
Bluefaced Leicester
Bond
Border Leicester
Boreray
Brecknock Hill Cheviot
British Milk Sheep
California Red
Cambridge
Castlemilk Moorit
Charollais
Cheviot
Clun Forest
Colbred
Columbia
Coopworth
Cormo
Corriedale
Cotswold
Dalesbred
Dartmoor Greyface
Dartmoor Whiteface
Debouillet
DeLaine Merino
Derbyshire Gritstone
Devon and Cornwall Longwool
Devon Closewool
Dorset Down
Dorset Horn
Dorset Poll (Polled Dorset)
East Friesian
Est a Laine Merino
Exmoor Horn
Faroese
Finnsheep
Galway
Gotland
Gromark
Gulf Coast Native
Gute or Gutefar
Hampshire Down
Hebridean
Herdwick
Hill Radnor
Hog Island
Icelandic
Ile-de-France
Jacob
Karakul, American
Kerry Hill
Leicester Longwool
Lincoln Longwool
Llanwenog
Lleyn
Lonk
Manx Loaghtan
Merino
Montadale
Navajo Churro
Norfolk Horn
North Country Cheviot
North Ronaldsay
Ouessant
Oxford Down
Pelssau
Perendale
Polwarth
Polypay
Portland
Rambouillet
Romanov
Romeldale and CVM
Romney
Rouge de l'Ouest
Rough Fell
Rya
Ryeland
Santa Cruz
Scottish Blackface
Shetland
Shropshire
Soay
Southdown
Spaelsau (New)
Spaelsau (Old)
Stansborough Grey
Suffolk
Swaledale
Targhee
Teeswater
Texel
Tunis, American
Warhill
Welsh Hill Speckled Face
Welsh Mountain and South Wales Mountain
Wensleydale
Whitefaced Woodland
Zwartbles
In Case You're Curious
Glossary
Credits
Index
Carol Ekarius is the coauthor of The Fleece & Fiber Sourcebook, The Field Guide to Fleece, and Storey's Guide to Raising Sheep, and the author of several books including Small-Scale Livestock Farming, Storey's Illustrated Guide to Poultry Breeds, and Storey's Illustrated Breed Guide to Sheep, Goats, Cattle, and Pigs. She lives in the mountains of Colorado.
Deborah Robson is co-author of The Fleece & Fiber Sourcebook and Knitting in the Old Way. She is a former editor of both Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot and Spin-Off magazine, and she is currently the editor and publisher of Nomad Press, which publishes books on traditional and ethnic knitting and spinning. Robson is also an artist, working in textiles, printmaking, and oils. She lives in Colorado with her daughter.
Storey Publishing
Pub Date: August 27, 2013
ISBN: 9781612121789
0.6" H x 7.0" L x 5.0" W
232 pages
paperback