[Jacob-list] felting on the live sheep

[Neal Grose]

I love spinning wool in the grease from coated Jacobs. Spinning in the grease and then washing the yarn sets the twist and fulls the yarn creating a soft but somewhat uneven product. 

I can’t recommend coats for longwools because they are more likely to turn into throw-rugs under the coats; but, we used to coat Jacobs, and it worked well, even with our heat and humidity. The trick is that coats need to be changed several times during the year as they become more fluffy. We had several coats made with a zipper on the chest for the rams

Coating easily doubles the value of the fleece because you eliminate trash. I even used to clip the skirtings, throw that away and then go back and shear off the coated area so there would be no contamination. 

Neal
PS: have you noticed how many sheep terms don’t pass spellcheck?

From: Linda 
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 8:32 PM
To: marguerite van beek ; jacob-list 
Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] felting on the live sheep

I've never coated any of my sheep. 
Linda

On 8/19/2012 8:21 PM, marguerite van beek wrote:

  Lasell and Linda 

  It is from coating the animal it happened to me this yr.  Plus the added warm weather did not help at all.

  Peg


  On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Linda <patchworkfibers at windstream.net> wrote:

    I have seen this on some hoggett fleeces. The fleeces were silky, fine, and open. In all cases, the next shearing was not cotted.
    Linda 

    On 8/16/2012 7:42 AM, Lasell J. Bartlett wrote:

      What contributes to a sheep's fleece getting felted while still growing on the live animal? 

      I'm just buying back two yearling ewes we bred, and both have felted fleeces. It's hard for me to tell what their fleece would be like if it weren't felted. Maybe I'm using the wrong word to describe what I see and feel. 

      I'm interested in people's thoughts about this. 

      Lasell J Bartlett 
      lasell at lasell.org 




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