| $12.50 per pound |
| WILD AND WONDERFUL COTSWOLD or COOPSWORTH CURLS, MOHAIR ROVING and LONG WOOLS!! The wonderful Cotswold Breed produces wonderfully curly fleeces. Often called the "poor man's Mohair", this fleece need not take a back seat to any mohair. The lamb curls are soft and comparable to the kid mohair and the long curly locks compare to the locks from the larger breeds of Angora Goats. Some will be from Longwool Crossbred Sheep. The Longwool breeds might be Lincoln, Karakul, Border Leicester, or Merino. Major Disclaimer!!! Please Read before purchasing!! I buy farm run Cotswold and other long wool Fleeces. These come from small farm flocks, often from people who say "What do you do with that stuff??" This fiber often has hay, grasses, feed or pasture items in the fleece. We get out as much as we can but if it offends you to find Vegetable Matter in the wool, don't order this. We wash this fleece, often 2 or 3 times, and in spite of all the cleaning we do there will probably be some trash in the tight curls so.......if teasing out the tight spots, or finding some loose vm in the fiber is going to be a problem with you during the fiber preparation...........DON'T BUY IT!! We don't want you disappointed, and don't want to you to pay more postage to return or exchange it. I mostly have the longer curly locks . These will make a strong silky yarn, and we use a lot of this roving for our Fleecewoven Rugs. These long shiny curls are excellent for needlefelting. Some of the fleece is from Cotswold crossbreeds. We have a limited supply of the lambs curls. I dye my fleeces generally using Jacquard Acid Dyes. This produces a long lasting brilliant color in the fiber. Bear in mind that I am a free handed dyer. I like variegated color and do not try for an even dye job. Pricing for the Cotswold Curls.. $13.00 lb. for the Dyed Fleece, $10.50 lb.for washed and $7.00 lb. for the raw fleeces.. Your dyed pound will a mixture of many colors. The photos are of some of the colors I have obtained. There may be something like this in the pile, but more likely it will just be colors nearby. I dye a lot of curls with several colors in the locks. If you ask for just one color.......you will get a monochromatic range of that color. I do not try for a solid color in any dyebath. |



We use vast amounts of this fiber in the needlefelted additions to our Fleecewoven Rugs. It is painting with fiber. We also use the fleece in needlefelting hats, shawls, clogs, and anything else we see that might need some decoration with fiber. We also use whatever is left over or is matted too much to pull apart in our fleecewoven rugs. And this fleece is a long wool and often gets handled roughly when washing. If you pull on the lock at the cut end, the matted areas pull apart very well. |
| We will pick out a bag of assorted colors. Locks of as many colors as I can put in your pound.... |


| In the photo to the left, we show a three pound bag of assorted color Cotswold Curls on the left and on the right is a one pound bag. My Ashford Country Spinner will give you a comparison sizing idea of how much fiber comprises a pound |
| A floor full of curls in my weaving studio. |
| LONG WOOL FLEECES FOR FELTING....SPINNING...OR WEAVING! These fleeces are from Farm Run Sheep. Barnlot or pasture raised. They are washed but we do not pick out all the vm and/or sand. You may have to shake the fleece, I have shook them before packing. The length will be anywhere from 4 to 10 inches in length. The Fleeces will be sold in one pound increments at $11.00 per pound. Choices will be dark colors or light colors.... |


| The Dark fleeces are never a solid color. The color will range from gray to almost a black. This is all one fleece shown. This is a Cotswold Lincoln cross fleece |
| #1 MOHAIR TOP ROVING White |
| #1 MOHAIR TOP ROVING BLACK |



| For Specially Dyed Mohair Rovings, click on the link to the right and check out the Specially Dyed Fibers on the Superwash WebPage |
| If you need a bag of one monochromatic range of color, please leave us a message on your order and we will try to fill it, otherwise you will get an assorted bag of colors..... |
| BAG OF ASST. COLOR LOCKS |
| WOW!!! April. 2009 We have gotten in 1420 lb. Cotswold Curls from a farm in Wisconsin. |
| Cotswold Curls |
| PRICES Raw Fleece.....$7.00 lb. Washed Fleece....$10.50. lb Dyed Fleece.......$13.00 lb. |
| #1 KID MOHAIR Very fine, very soft easily spun Roving White only! $22.50 per pound |
