The Wool Comes Off ...

Shearing day 2003: Don Morse of Greeley, Colorado shears Cyril ...

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Please e-mail your questions about fleeces, wool, sheep, or our other items, payment and shipping to Joanna & Keith Gleason at gfwsheep@gfwsheep.com or call 303.823.0837

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1553 Stagecoach Trail, Lyons, Colorado 80540.

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All of our roving is suitable for hand spinning or felting and is ready for dyeing or over-dyeing.

• Medium silver Corriedale roving - spinning count 58s: $25 per pound + shipping.
  
• Black Corriedale X Bond roving - spinning count 58s - 60s: $30 per pound + shipping.
  
• White Bond roving - spinning count 58s - 62s: $35 per pound + shipping.
  
• Medium Brown Bond roving - spinning count 58s: $41 per pound + shipping.
  
• Dark Chocolate Brown Bond roving - spinning count 58s: $38 per pound + shipping.
  
• *NEW* a blend of silver, white, and black Bond X Corriedale ... "Tweedie" - spinning count 58s: $39 per pound + shipping.

  * Please note: roving has been shipped out and back to the processor, then washed and carded by the processor. The cost of roving reflects this, plus the "shrink" or loss of weight to lanolin and dust in washing and carding (approximately 65% to 75% yield of clean wool ... this means that a 10 pound grease fleece will yield on average 6 to 8 pounds of clean wool).
  When you buy one pound of roving it is not the same thing as buying one pound of raw, grease fleece. Consider that the time you spend washing and carding the wool does have a monetary value.

• All of our fleeces are covered/coated year round and are well skirted (heads, necks, legs, docks, and bellies are removed). We usually sell the whole fleece which will include shoulders, sides, back and flank wool. We have fleeces available in white, greys, black and varying shades of brown. They range in grade from 50s to 62s.
  Here is a bit about a black fleece comparision study.

  Prices for the 2008 shearing:

  Purebred Bond fleeces: $16 per pound (whole fleece)
  Bond X Corriedale fleeces: $14 per pound (whole fleece)
  Corriedale fleeces: $12 per pound (whole fleece)

  Shearing this spring was delayed by unsettled weather. As I skirt the fleeces outside, this has also been delayed by cooler temperatures and high winds. Please look at our charts from time to time, as these are the first listings of the 2008 fleeces. Also, those fleeces reserved as Wool Show fleeces will not be listed until the first week in September, after the Show season ends.