Icelandic Wool, Biotayarns' Carded Cloud, carded handspinning prep

This natural hand spinning & felting fiber is a carded cloud of Icelandic (natural) wool.

You are purchasing 14.8 ounces of natural Icelandic wool fleece, gently harvested from an adult Icelandic ewe. The raw fleece is then skirted, washed, dried and thoroughly carded and ready for spinning or felting. 

I use only the finest Icelandic fleeces, grown in my regional fibershed (SD and MN) for my carded preps.  The shepherd who raises this Icelandic sheep is focused on sustainably pasturing, caring and breeding their Icelandic sheep for the best health, breed & wool characteristics. This beautiful, healthy sheep fleece is raised by The Layzee Farmer in MN. 

All of the fibers have been carefully sheared, washed and carded using ecologically safe soaps.

Spinners accustomed to commercial combed top, which can be dense and require significant predrafting, will likely find this carded preparation easy to spin. Biotayarns' carded wool blends are made by feeding washed wool (and other fibers) into a carding mill that opens up the locks, removes vegetable matter and passes it through several carding rollers that card the fibers but do not align the fibers parallel as in combed top. The wool you spin directly from this cloud will make a beautiful woolen yarn, the same as is spun from wool roving.  Beautiful long draw spinning with this fleece! 

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