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Details about  Hampshire-reared SHETLAND SHEEP FLEECE 3.5+ lbs - dark browns spinning un-washed

Hampshire-reared SHETLAND SHEEP FLEECE 3.5+ lbs - dark browns spinning un-washed See original listing
Hampshire-reared-SHETLAND-SHEEP-FLEECE-3-5-lbs-dark-browns-spinning-un-washed
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01 May, 2014 16:56:08 BST
Price:
£14.50
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£12.50 Economy Delivery | See details
Item location:
BoffinBeads Vintage, Sunny Hampshire, United Kingdom
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251353286728
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Last updated on  18 Mar, 2014 11:15:36 GMT  View all revisions

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Condition:
New: A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item. See the seller's listing for full details. See all condition definitions- opens in a new window or tab
Type:

Rovings/ Fleeces
Wool Type:

British - Hampshire-reared Shetland sheep herd

 Dyed:

Natural dark chocolate nut brown to blackish
Brand:

Shetland sheep breed - brown-coloured soft wool

 Colour:

Brown
complete entire sheep fleece:

3.5+ lbs or 1 kg 500 grams approximately

 Mixed Lot:

complete fleece as shorn 2013
 

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Lovely SHETLAND SHEEP FLEECE for sale today on Ebay ideal for spinners and crafts people who are seeking a good source of healthy soft fibre to spin into their own design of yarn by hand or on their spinning wheel.  Hampshire-reared Shetland sheep from a herd with show stock, this soft fleece ranges in colour from a dark chocolate brown through to an inner darker, almost black colour with no breakage in the staples that range in length from a few centimetres to maximum about 5.5 cms.  Un-washed, lanolin-rich, with organic debris from the field mainly picked out and sheared in the summer of 2013.  This is a big, heavy fleece weighing circa in excess of 4 lbs or circa 1 kilo 500 grams or more, and will be posted to the winning bidder in a temporary clear plastic bag.  It is recommended to wash such fleeces fairly soon and to store cleaned fleece within a large paper-based bag (or jute sack) and not a plastic one as fleece needs to be ventilated.  This entire fleece is soft to the touch and without any visible 'kemp' hairs.  The postcard you see dangling from the bag of fleece and the Sheep Breed poster are for display purposes to show you the type of Shetland sheep that this fleece is from - poster issued by The British Wool Marketing Board of Bradford, Yorkshire - website:  www.britishwool.org.uk  and shows you the white type of Shetland sheep.   Shetland sheep, so the postcard informs us, could have been introduced into the U.K. by The Vikings and became a Rare Breed at one time until their numbers increased sufficiently during the 1980s.  This fleece is ideal for hand-spinners being soft and convenient variable staple length.  It can be used to make designer yarns suitable also for weaving and/or felting crafts.  (In one photo, you will notice a dish of PATOUNIS vegan pure olive oil soap flakes which, when a few are pre-soaked for a few hours, will make an ideal eco-friendly washing agent to clean your fibres with and suitable for people who are allergy-sufferers as the soap only contains olive oil, sea salt, a trace left of lye (natrium hydroxide - essential for soap-making) and water -see our other listing for these soaps and soap flakes.  (FREE SAMPLE of 50 grams of such 'flakes' will come with every fleece sold!)  BoffinBeads is a supporter of The Hampshire Guild of Weavers, Spinners & Dyers and part of the proceeds of this listing will support the Guild activities.  www.hantsguildwsd.hampshire.org.uk  Local delivery not available but collection may be made from Shawford Village Hall near Twyford near Winchester, SO21 2AA,  on 26 April 2014 at the next meeting of The Hampshire Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers, at which there will be a workshop given by Suzanne Butler, Guild member, on the subject of FELT WORK + at 1.30 p.m. talk given by weaver, Ritta Sinkonnen-Davies WEAVING NEW FROM OLD (bring some fabrics for recycling) - (£4 entrance fee for visitors) - see website for further details as above.  The following meeting of the Guild takes place on 17 May 2014  open NEWS AND VIEWS meeting  with an afternoon talk given by Pat Foster, weaver, on the topic of ACID DYES. 

Buy-It-Now £14.50 (reduced!) + UK postage for 3.5 lbs - 4 lbs. or 1 kilo 500+ grams  +  £12.50 (partial refunds issued if this estimate is wrong), overseas customers please contact Sellers for accurate costs, fleece will be posted within temporary plastic wrappings.  Please send a message to enquire about collection from March 15 2014 Guild meeting at Shawford Village Hall to be certain just in case of bad weather etc.  Shawford Village Hall, near TWYFORD,  SO21 2AA  so do pop in after checking first with BoffinBeads Vintage.  See the Guild website as above in the description.


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