Diamond Creek Heritage Sheep

Fleece & Wool Products For Sale

An old time shearer, a good's night rest, and the girls off food and water for a few hours all makes for a better day of shearering. After 20-25 head our backs are sore, the girls feel naked and everyone says next year we will raise less sheep. Somehow that never seems the case. Once sheared the fleece is roughly skirted and placed on drying racks to cool off, labeled and sorted as we go. A few days later a final skirting is finished and the wool put away.

Our wool rovings are machine processed at this time at a small owner operated mill in Forence, Montana. At Kalaya Farms I can always depend on a high calibre product and the individual one on one attention these long fleeces benefit from. Hand carded batts are roughly 8 inches in width by 22 inches long, and avaialable by request.

As for selling and shipping, we will typically wash a raw fleece at least once so that our buyers are not paying for dirt and lanolin. If you prefer we don't do this please just request so in an Email.

Leicester Longwool Fleece Characteristics compliments of the Leicester Longwool Sheep Breeders Association:The fleece is long, curly, lustrous and heavy, with staple lengths from 8 to 14 inches. It has a well-defined crimp. It's highly valued by handspinners and weavers for its handle and beautiful dye acceptance.

Wensleydale Fleece Characterisitcs compliments of the North American Wensleydale Sheep Association:Wensleydale wool is the finest and most valuable luster longwool in the world. Micron count 33-35. Highly valued by hand spinners. Staple length 8-12 inches. Gorgeous when hand felted in the cobweb patterns, or for light decorative scarves. The yarns just glimmer with natural shine.

Black Welsh Mountain Fleece characteristics compliments of the American Black Welsh Mountain Sheep Association:The fleece is a completely black or reddish black called cuchddu. The wool is short, dense and firm to handle and ranges in Bradford count from 48s to 56s or micron ranges from 26.4 to 32.69. This fleece is great both for needlefelting and wet felting and makes simply beautiful naturally black yarn.

Romney-Coopworth Fleece	Romney/Leicester Cross	Romney/Leicester Roving
Hand Dyed English Leicester Carded Buns	Unwashed Leicester Ram Lamb Fleece	Unwashed Leicester Ewe
Washed Silver/Black Wensleydale Fleece	Washed Leicester/Wensleydale Lamb	Unwashed Wensleydale Fleece
Hand Carded & Dyed Wensleydale Buns	Washed Natural Gray Merino	Hand Dyed Merino Roving

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