Matted Shetland Fleece

Each raw fleece is skirted to remove coarse matted or damaged fibres and handpicked to remove.

Matted shetland fleece.

A beautifully soft creamy white romney x shetland fleece. Busy with lambing haying irrigation and other summer farm chores it is often late autumn or early winter before we have a large number of fleeces ready for sale. Anderson co in lerwick was established in 1873 and now sells handmade shetland knitwear online to countries all over the world. Mens shetland fleece jacket.

With a lovely crimp curl and bounce this fleece is ideal for hand spinning felting dying and other fiber arts. 0 item s in your cart total. At fernhill fibre fleeces are blade shorn sorted and graded with care at time of shearing. The most common shetland fleece material is wool.

A windproof membrane is bonded between two layers of microfleece to give a superior fleece that better protects you against the elements. Large cartridge pockets with a quilted back prevent wear and tear and allow for practicality and ease of use in the field. We produce the purest 100 shetland yarn and have done for decades. Hand knitted traditional and contemporary knitwear in a variety colours including completely natural undyed kellister colours.

During these months we spend available time carefully cleaning each. We have reduced the numbers of sheep in our flock but are shearing 45 to 50 sheep each spring. Christmas covid information. There are 222 shetland fleece for sale on etsy and they cost 14 61 on average.

At fernhill fibre fleeces are blade shorn sorted and graded with care at time of shearing. Average staple length is 11cm 5in. Each raw fleece is skirted to remove coarse matted or damaged fibres. At fernhill fibre fleeces are blade shorn sorted and graded with care at time of shearing.

A beautiful light grey romney x shetland first clip lambs fleece with mixed shades of lighter greys staple length 10cm ideal for hand spinning felting and fiber artists this fleece has beautiful texture and native shetland colours. We are now closed for xmas holidays until jan 5th. Shetland fleece shetland sheep produce one of the finest wool s in the world that is especially suitable for hand spinning and peg looming. To prevent the gun butt from slipping and to help absorb some recoil alcantara patches are.

Beautiful fine creamy white merino x shetland gotland fleeces. Each raw fleece is skirted to remove coarse matted or damaged fibres and handpicked to remove. The finer fibers often being used to make the world famous fair isle knitwear and gossamer lace whilst the coarser wool being woven into tweed some of which is used by tailors in savile row london. Ideal for hand spinning felting and fiber artists this fleece is fine and soft in texture.

Shetland fleeces from the stonehaven flock. A family owned business.