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"Pearly White" is the name of this 100% wool roving. Not a glaring
white, but more like eggshell, ivory or.... pearls! Blended from
all the white wools in my flock, this roving spins to a moderate
sheen and is springy. Makes a nice bouncy yarn that will hold
its shape for pattern work.
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"Vanilla"
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"Vanilla"
is 100% lamb's wool, made from many white lambs in our flock,
so it includes wool of several different breeds and types.
This roving is a nice, bright white that spins into yarn with
a good bit of luster. Very silky and pretty, and should take
dye beautifully if that's your desire. And the softness of
lamb.
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"Pewter"
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Colored Cotswold fleeces made into roving! This light, clear gray
is silvery, and has no brown overtones as does Woodsmoke (below).
The silky long-stapled roving spins very easily, and makes a crisp
semi-worsted yarn with barely any effort. Takes dye beautifully
and gives color with a lot of depth. Strong enough to spin into
warp yarn, but with a soft enough hand to make great sweaters,
too.
Very lovely and versatile! |
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"Wood
Smoke"
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This roving slips through your fingers as easily as its namesake.
A dream to spin, and a beautiful, warm gray/brown
color which will coordinate well with other colors, or stand alone.
The unspun roving actually looks lighter than in this picture,
but the spun skein is close to this shade of gray.
Crisp enough to knit a textured pattern and have it show up really
well. Has a moderate luster which confused my camera - it kept
making the skein look much lighter than in real life. |
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"Pussywillow"
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This
roving is Oh-My-Gosh
soft! This
is 100% lamb's wool, made from blending white and black lamb
fleeces from our flock, so it includes wool of several different
breeds and types. Very soft for next-to-the-skin wear, and
it spins sooo easily. Light enough to overdye, but it's a
very pleasant darkish gray on its own. Actually a little darker
than this picture.
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"Black
Coffee"
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This easy-drafting wool roving is about as close to black as you
can be without getting there. Not jet black, but really dark with
just an occasional strand of gray wool present. The picture does
not do the black-ness justice. Moderate luster. More even in tone
that the spun skein would lead you to believe.
Spins up easily into a very springy, bouncy yarn. Nice! |
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"Chocolate
Truffle"
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Another roving made from 100% lamb's wool. This time from
all black lambs who had some sun bleached tips, so instead
of inky black this roving is deepest chocolate color. Soft
enough for next-to-the-skin wear, it spins beautifully and
makes a yarn with enough body to hold its shape well and show
pattern work. Really nice.
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"Fudge
Brownie"
Lamb
Combed Top
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Oooh-la-la!
This combed top is made from fine and medium
lambs' wool. The black lambs spent the summer in the sun,
so the tips were bleached brown, and the carded fiber spins
into a yummy fudge color. Not black, but such a dark chocolate!
Soft yet springy, this combed top is wonderfully easy to spin.
Treat yourself to this decadent fiber today!
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"Toffee"
Combed Top
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Moorit
color fine fleeces combed into easy-drafting, next-to-the-skin-soft
roving. This is the most wonderful pale brown color! Moorit
means the wool is actually a shade of brown - not black or
gray. Some moorit animals fade with age to the most pale sand
color. Wool for this top had faded some, making a roving that's
the exact color of walnut shells. Lovely!
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Sky blue dye plus gray wool equals a roving the exact color
of your favorite pair of jeans. It will work into a drape-y
yarn just as comforting as those jeans, too. A darker
blue than the picture leads you to believe.
This
blend is largely Cotswold with a little wool from gray crossbred
sheep. Silky hand and high luster make for easy spinning and
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"Wine
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Much like "Blue Jeans", this roving is gray wool overdyed with
purple. The result is a medium purple of differing shades that
remind me of the many kinds of grapes grown in the Finger Lakes
each fall. More dark purple, less pink than the
picture. (DANG this camera flash).
This blend is largely Cotswold with a little wool from gray crossbred
sheep. Silky hand and high luster make for easy spinning and a
great yarn. |
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Gray Cotswold and Cotswold/Border Leicester cross fleeces
overdyed with several shades of green (and blue and yellow,
but you'll have to see the blog for details) have made a heathery,
medium-dark green roving. Think lily pads, cattails and moss
and...OK, let's be honest.....algae...all very natural and
pretty greens. This fiber is a JOY to spin and has some luster
too..
One
word of caution - despite several rinses I did get a light
bit of green bleeding into the water when I washed this sample
skein. As you should always do, wash this yarn separately
after spinning just to be on the safe side.
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Natural
Colored Lamb and Silk
"Chocolate
Amaretto"
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Natural
colored mixed breeds lambs' wool with just a little pink,
salmon and beige silk added. This is a nicely springy yarn
due to the medium wool influence in the mix, but with more
luster than you'd expect due to the silk. The silk component
blends into the yarn more than I anticipated, giving some
flashes of color but also imparting an overall slight copper
sheen. It makes for a very rich looking yarn.
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Cotswold Lamb and Alpaca (65/35)
"Brown Sugar"
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"Brown Sugar" is the name of this yummy lamb/alpaca blend.
White Cotswold lamb wool blended with red alpaca fiber makes this
super easy-to-spin roving the exact color of light brown sugar.
Soft hand, some sheen from the Cotswold, and fabric will have
a nice drape.
This is really lovely stuff! |
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Cotswold Lamb and Alpaca (50/50)
"Whipped Cream"
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This blend is very popular with handspinners. White Cotswold
Lamb wool is blended with white alpaca fiber to make a 50/50
mix.
Very soft and supple, with a subtle sheen from the Cots lamb.
This blend will also take dye beautifully. Garments worked from
this yarn will have a wonderful drape. |
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Cotswold
and Silk
"Irish
Mist"
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White Cotswold wool
with just a drizzle of dyed bombyx silk added. It's amazing
how little colored fiber it takes to tint white wool! This
fun to spin roving has frequent blips of yellow, green and
rust silk which makes the fiber interesting to spin and gives
a nicely variegated yarn. The green seems to show the most
and gives the yarn an overall pleasant green tint with the
other colors showing up too.
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Cotswold
and Silk
"Polished
Armor"
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Natural dark gray
Cotswold wool with dribbles of rose, green and pale peach
dyed bombyx silk. This roving makes HIGH luster yarn that
glimmers even in low light. The blips of color are very subtle
but definately discernable. This is some of the easiest drafting
fiber I've ever spun. I couldn't stop spinning it - my sample
skein is way bigger than it needs to be! Just the right shade
of gray. Great masculine color alone, or throw a pin or necklace
against it and it's sophisticated girly.
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Cotswold
and Mohair (50/50)
"Tropical
Sunset"
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Dark
shades of burgundy, crimson and yellow blend beautifully to
give this roving a rich, tropical look. This is a "frosted"
roving, with the colors lying parallel to each other with the
burgundy lightly wrapped around all. They can be separated
fairly easily if you choose. The colors combine to be
warm, not garish. (The picture doesn't do it justice - it is
not this neon-ish.) The mohair will raise a soft halo
with wear, and both fibers give the resulting yarn a lovely
sheen from every angle. |
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Cotswold
Lamb and Silk (92% / 8%)
"Jade
Frost "
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Cotswold
lamb's wool dyed a happy grass green with drips of undyed
silk scattered throughout makes for a pretty yarn! The Cotswold
and silk are both high luster fibers, so the yarn will have
a very nice sheen. This blend drafts like a dream. Treat yourself
to something green in the depths of winter.
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Cotswold
Lamb and Silk (92% / 8%)
"Lilac
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Cotswold
lamb's wool dyed a lovely lavender with drips of undyed silk
scattered throughout makes for a pretty yarn! The Cotswold
and silk are both high luster fibers, so the yarn will have
a very nice sheen. This blend drafts like a dream. A soft,
romantic color to counter the cold and snow outside!
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Cotswold
Lamb and Silk (92% / 8%)
"Rose
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Cotswold
lamb's wool dyed rose-petal pink with drips of undyed silk
scattered throughout makes for a pretty pink yarn speckled
with white. The Cotswold and silk are both high luster fibers,
so the yarn will have a very nice sheen. This blend drafts
like a dream and will cheer you up just looking at it (but
go ahead and spin it up!).
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Cotswold
Lamb and Silk (92% / 8%)
"September
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"Luxurious"
is the only way to describe the rich color and texture of this
lamb and silk roving. Chestnut, crimson and gold combine to
provide all the varied shading that nature produces on the beautiful
leaves of autumn. The undyed silk adds flecks of beige that
seem to accentuate the other colors. And of course it has the
beautiful sheen of Cotswold along with the silk. Wow! |
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Cotswold
Lamb and Silk (92% / 8%)
"Spring
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Lamb
and silk blended together in spring time shades of green,
yellow, blue and lavender. This roving spins up beautifully
- like a field of bright grass full of buttercups, violets
and bluebells. This is a "frosted" roving, with
the colors lying parallel to each other with the green wrapped
around all, so you can separate them if you wish, or just
spin them together as I did in the sample skein at left. Also,
between the Cotswold luster and the silk, this fiber sparkles
in the light as though it had some synthetic glitz in there
- but it doesn't! Just lamb and silk.
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A
Note on Cotswold Wool
Cotswold is considered a "coarse" wool, which I think
is an unfortunate adjective because it sounds as if the
wool is scratchy, itchy or somehow unpleasant. Not true!
I think a more accurate term would be "thick" or "heavy"
wool.
Cotswold has been called "The Poor Man's Mohair" and for
good reason. The wool is extremely lustrous, silky, takes
dye beautifully, and can have great staple length. When
measured in microns, the fiber falls in the 30-40 micron
range, which is comparable with Romney, Border Leicester
and Lincoln.
While it may not be suitable for baby clothes or underwear,
it is wonderful for all manner of outer garments. It spins
easily into a fuzzy yarn from which you can raise a halo
similar to mohair, or, when combed or put through a diz
you can achieve a smooth, hard, worsted yarn that will
wear forever.
All in all, it is a wonderfully versatile fiber. |
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"Autumn Spice"
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"Autumn Spice" This roving is somewhat more subdued
than the picture leads you to believe. There are overtones
of gray that don't show well in the photo. Imagine the color
of perfectly baked pumpkin pie - dark orange with shades
and flecks of darker hues. This is NOT a knock-your-eye-out
color.
Warm, but sophisticated. And spins like a dream . |
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Blue, dark pink and green make a very pretty yarn with each color
given a chance to "solo". These are spring/early summer
colors - not pastel enough to be baby colors, and with no yellow
it's not really 'flower garden' either. This roving drafts sooo
easily, and has a soft shine since it's Cotswold. Despite what
I thought was a good rinse after dyeing, I did get a little blue/green
bleeding when I washed the sample skein, just so you know and
wash the yarn separately the first time....
The colors work well together in the spun yarn - no fighting,
just friendly taking of turns showing off. |
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"Cotton Candy"
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The pink and blue in this varigated roving matches the color of
cotton candy exactly. When spun into yarn, it favors the blue,
but also shades to lavendar on its way to the pink spots. Happy
colors for kids or adults. |
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"Ferns
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I had a hard time capturing the color of this roving and yarn.
It's a varigated blend of copper, gold and pale green, which spins
into a complex yarn appearing sage green with hints of blue and
streaks of gold. It's very pretty, earthy, and subtle. This would
work into an item with a lot of depth to the overall coloration.
Beautiful, and one of my favorites. |
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"Summer Sun"
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Wow! A sizzling blend of pink, yellow and orange. Bright and cheerful,
but not blindlingly florescent. If you are going to the trouble
of making a sweater - make a fashion statement at the same time!
The spun yarn tends to show more of the pink and less of the orange
than the roving would lead you to believe. |
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"Viola"
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This combination of yellow and lilac look like the little spring
johnny-jump-ups to me. The colors in this roving lie parallel
to each other, so you can strip them apart easily if you want
to get two clear colors. Or, you can spin them together as I did
in the sample and get a cheerful "spring flower" yarn.
Happy colors with the bright shine of Cotswold wool. |
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"Beneath
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Here's a gorgeous blend of medium blues and greens. Stare into
a mass of this roving and you can almost hear the seagulls.
Add in the luster of Cotswold, and you have a very rich-looking
yarn that will still stand up to heavy wear. If you're a blue/green
person like me, this roving is for you. |
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"Misty
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If you like complex pastels, this varigated roving is for you.
Yellow, salmon and pale blue blend together in gentle
colors reminiscent of a sunrise through the summer mist. There
are streaks of blue and green in here (thanks to the yellow
and blue), but the yellow and salmon overshadowed them in this
picture. Very pretty.
The sheen of Cotswold wool enhances the effect in the yarn.
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"Twilight
Time"
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"Heavenly
shades of night are falling - it's Twilight Time."
Remember those lyrics? This roving captures the plum,
dark teal and rich salmon of twilight. Subtle and sophisticated,
the colors would be suitable for a man or woman.
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of course, it has the sheen of Cotswold. |
