Tops – Late Summer Garden – Hand Painted

Tops Hand Dyed Late Spring Garden

Description: Combed semi-worsted fibers. Tops are the best fiber prep you can buy as the fibers are all the same length and extremely clean, no VM. Hand painted. 67% kid mohair, 33% wool. Pic shows the 4 bundles created. Color varies slightly between bundles as they are hand painted.
Color: Late Summer Garden (Blues and purples, yellow, reds)
Fiber Content: Mohair: DWF’s Rose, Jasmine, Thelma
Wool: Shetland, Phoenix Farms, WI
Type (Processor): Semi-worsted Top (Zeilinger’s, MI)
Quantity (Pounds): 3 – 2 oz. bundles (6 oz total created)
Price: $10/2 ounce bundle plus shipping
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Tops – Mid Summer Garden – Hand Painted

Top Hand Painted Mid Summer Garden

Description: Combed semi-worsted fibers. Tops are the best fiber prep you can buy as the fibers are all the same length and extremely clean, no VM. Hand painted. 67% kid mohair, 33% wool. Pic shows the 4 bundles created. Color varies slightly between bundles as they are hand painted.
Color: Mid Summer Garden (Red, yellow, orange, green, blue, white)
Fiber Content: Mohair: DWF’s Rose, Jasmine, Thelma
Wool: Shetland, Phoenix Farms, WI
Type (Processor): Semi-worsted Top (Zeilinger’s, MI)
Quantity (Pounds): 4 – 2 oz. bundles (8 oz total created)
Price: $10/2 ounce bundle plus shipping
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Tops – Descent into the Blues – Hand Painted

Top Hand Painted Descent Into the Blues

Description: Combed semi-worsted fibers. Tops are the best fiber prep you can buy as the fibers are all the same length and extremely clean, no VM. Hand painted. 67% kid mohair, 33% wool. Pic shows the 4 bundles created. Color varies slightly between bundles as they are hand painted.
Color: Descent into the Blues (Blues and purples, some white)
Fiber Content: Mohair: DWF’s Rose, Jasmine, Thelma
Wool: Shetland, Phoenix Farms, WI
Type (Processor): Semi-worsted Top (Zeilinger’s, MI)
Quantity (Pounds): 4 – 2 oz. bundles (8 oz total created)
Price: $10/2 ounce bundle plus shipping
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Tops – Hello Yellow – Hand Kettle Dyed

Description: Combed semi-worsted fibers. Tops are the best fiber prep you can buy as the fibers are all the same length and extremely clean, no VM. Hand kettle dyed. 67% kid mohair, 33% wool. Pic shows the 8 bundles created.
Color: Hello Yellow (Bright yellow – green)
Fiber Content: Mohair: DWF’s Rose, Jasmine, Thelma
Wool: Shetland, Phoenix Farms, WI
Type (Processor): Semi-worsted Top (Zeilinger’s, MI)
Quantity (Pounds): 8 – 2 oz. bundles (1# total created)
Price: $8/2 ounce bundle plus shipping
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Roving – Eat Your Greens – Lettuce – Hand Kettle Dyed

 

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Kale rolled into a ball

Lettuce rolled into a ball

Celery rolled into a ball

Kale unrolled

Lettuce unrolled

Celery unrolled

Description: Kale is the darkest of the “Eat Your Greens” rovings that were hand kettle dyed after carding.
Lettuce is in between Kale and Celery in color, while Celery is the palest of the “Eat Your Greens” rovings.
75% kid mohair – 25% Blue Faced Leicester
Color: Shades of bright crisp green which become lighter as you move further into the ~1 pound roving ball. Celery has yellow notes near the center of the ball.
Fiber Content: Mohair (kid): DWF’s Rose, Jasmine, Thelma:
Wool: Blue Faced Leicester: DWF’s Esmerelda
Type (Processor): Roving (Frankenmuth, MI)
Quantity (Pounds): 1 of each colorway (1 pound each roving)
Price: $40 plus shipping.
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Fleece Locks

Fleeces with lock structure are available for use as doll’s hair, Santa’s Beards or art yarn/ tail spinning. Lock length is ~4 inches.

Hand washed adult/young adult mohair: $4/ounce  for doll’s hair/Santa Beards

Machine washed adult/young adult mohair (some loss of lock structure): $2/ounce  for spinning, natural white and grey as well as dyed colors

Hand washed (Blue Faced Leicester) wool: $2/ounce for spinning or doll’s hair/Santa’s Beards – natural colors only: white, greys, browns

It is very difficult to keep locks intact through the washing process particularly if the raw fleece contains any VM.  My standard washing process includes prewashing to remove the dirt and some of the grease (lanolin in wool), followed by hand picking to remove most of the VM, followed by a final wash to remove all (or nearly all) of the remaining grease.  Washing is done in a washing machine for soaking and spinning (ie- no agitation).  This gives an extremely clean fleece that can be spun directly from the fleece.  The less VM in the original fleece, the less damage there is to the lock structure.  Most fleeces are not clean enough to produce clean intact locks.  Only fleeces with low VM and good lock structure are hand washed to retain as much lock structure as possible.  That’s why locks are so expensive and why they are not always available.   I will sell raw locks if you want to wash them yourself at a substantial discount.

Contact me based on your project needs (amount, type, your location) for availability and a quote.

Currently noo fleeces available.

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Roving – Dark Brown Shetland Llama – Natural

Roving Dark Brown 72% Shetland 28% Llama

Dark Brown 72% Shetland 28% Llama

 

Description: Natural colored 72% Shetland Wool 28% Llama
Color: Dark Browns
Fiber Content: 72% Wool: Shetland, Autumn Breeze Acres (PA)
28% Llama: Phoenix Farm’s (WI) Eclipse
Type (Processor): Roving (Gurdy Run, PA)
Quantity (Pounds): 5
Price: $2/ounce, $13/8 ounces (63% savings), $23/pound (67% savings) plus shipping. Savings is fiber cost + shipping versus 1 oz. fiber.
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Batts – Royal Blue – Hand Carded

Batt Royal Blue

Royal Blue Batt

Description: Hand dyed and then carded at Dancing Waters Farm.
50% adult mohair, 50% Shetland wool.
Color: Royal Blue
Fiber Content: Mohair: DWF’s Jessie, James, Fred
Wool: Shetland, Phoenix Farm’s (WI) Snow White
Type (Processor): Batts (Dancing Waters Farm, NJ)
Quantity (Pounds): 10 (1.5 – 2 ounces each)
Price: $3/ounce, $18/8 ounces, $32/pound plus shipping
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Top – Tan – Natural

Top White 31% wool 69% mohair

Tan Top 31% wool 69% mohair

Description: Combed semi-worsted fibers. This is the best fiber as it is all the same length and extremely clean, no VM.
69% mohair (55% kid, 30% yearling, 16% adult doe),
31% wool (33% Shetland, 67% Cheviot)
Color: Light Tan or Cream
Fiber Content: Mohair: DWF’s Red, Rose, Sienna
Wool: Shetland, Phoenix Farm’s (WI); Cheviot, Shepherd’s Croft (PA)
Type (Processor): Semi-worsted Top (Zeilinger’s, MI)
Quantity (Pounds): 20
Price: $3.50/ounce, $21/8 ounces, $37/pound plus shipping
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Top – Grey – Natural

Grey Top

Description: Combed semi-worsted fibers. This is the best fiber as it is all the same length and extremely clean, no VM.
78% Adult buck mohair,
22% Shetland wool
Color: Grey
Fiber Content: Mohair: DWF’s Leo, Rembaldi, Badger
Wool: Shetland, Phoenix Farm’s (WI) Rambunctious
Type (Processor): Semi-worsted Top (Zeilinger’s, MI)
Quantity (Pounds): 20
Price: $3.50/ounce, $21/8 ounces, $37/pound plus shipping
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