Ashford NZ Wool Fiber to Spin and Felt description:

Brighten your spinning and felting with colorful New Zealand Corriedale. Ashford's wool fiber has in a huge array of colors-ready to spin, blend and felt. Beginning spinners- This is your fiber! Its natural crimp, keeps it from slipping through your fingers quite as quickly. This bit of extra time makes it easier to focus on the mechanics of spinning. And don't forget the lure of colors. Even starting out it's more fun to spin with colors you like. Experienced spinners will enjoy playing with the range of available colors. Simply choose your desired colors and you are ready for a fun afternoon of experimentation or a more intense study in color theory. Mix, match, and card the solid colors to create subtle heathers and rainbow designer yarns. Creating a color wheel is easy with Ashford's primary colors. In need of a little guidance, look our many videos and DVDs on Fiber Preparation and Multicolor Blending Techniques. These glorious colors can be felted alone or blended to create infinite colors. By the ounce, Ashford fiber is ideal for felting picturesque scenes, masks, children's toys – any project where you need only a small amount of a specific color. Micron 27-30.

Black Welsh Top Wool Fiber description:

Black Welsh is remarkable for its all black fleece. The wool fiber is coarse to medium with moderate luster and good loft. Because the fleece is coarse it is most suitable for outerwear, upholstery fabric or rugs. Staple length, at 3-4 inches, is great for spinning yarn. The color makes it an interesting blending choice to create mixed natural color yarns.

Blue Faced Leicester Blend Wool Fiber description:

Bluefaced Leicester is a fine, semi-lustrous "longwool" wool fiber with a staple length that ranges from 3-6 inches and micron of 24-28 and 56's-60's count. Descending from the Border Leicester breed, their name comes from the fact that the skin on their head that shows through their fleece is a dark blue color. Yarns spun from this breed are very soft, yet strong. Blend of white, oatmeal and brown fiber colors.

Blue Faced Leicester Wool Top description:

Bluefaced Leicester is a fine, semi-lustrous "longwool" wool fiber, with a staple length that ranges from 3-6 inches and micron of 24-28 and 56's-60's count. Descending from the Border Leicester breed, their name comes from the fact that the skin on their head that shows through their fleece is a dark blue color. Yarns spun from this breed are very soft, yet strong.

Coopworth Blend Wool Roving description:

Coopworth wool roving is a joy to spin! Coopworth is a breed of sheep resulting from inbreeding Border Leicester and Romney Crossbreeds in New Zealand. Coopworth is blended with other New Zealand breeds to make a fleece that is characteristically silky and easy to spin. The fibers are strong and medium to coarse in texture counts ranging from 46 –50. Staple lengths range from 4-6 inches. Coopworth Blend wool roving is great for beginners, because it is carded roving instead of a combed top. Made is available in three shades:

Natural -1, Light grey -2, & Dark brown -4.

Corriedale Wool Top description:

Corriedale sheep were developed in Australia and New Zealand from a Merino and Lincoln Cross resulting in a wool that has a good crimp and long fiber length. Corriedale wool is relatively fine, having a wool count between 50-56, micron of 25-31, and staple lengths ranging from 3.5-6 inches. Well suited to spinning yarn, needle felting and wet felting.

Domestic Wool Top description:

Our domestic wool top is a blend of a variety of different sheep breeds from small farms east of the Mississipi. It is medium textured, having an average count of 54 with a micron count of 29.5-30 and a staple length of 6 to 6.5 inches. It will yield beautiful, natural colored worsted spun yarns. Great for pillow stuffing or center core for felting projects.

Fine White Merino Wool Top description:

Merino is the softest and finest of all wools, with counts ranging from 64-70 and staple lengths of just over 3 inches. In addition to fine, fine, and more fine, merino fibers have a close tight crimp which gives consistent loft to spun yarn. Nice for blending, and wonderful for needle felting and wet felting. Micron count is 21.5.

In needle felting be careful not to use too large a felting needle so you don't leave visible holes.

Finn Wool Fiber description:

Finnsheep originated in... Finland. This wool fiber is lustrous, soft and fine. Yarn spun from Finn is suitable for a range of projects from sweaters and throws to hats and mittens. The micron count ranges from 24-31, staple length from 3-6 inches.

Hand-Dyed Blue Face Leicester Wool Fiber description:

Maine's own fiber artist, Linda Whiting, from Pine Star Studio has hand-dyed sock yarn and Blue Face Leicester wool fiber in 4 exclusive and limited edition colorways. Staple length 3-6" (60mm ave). Fiber count 56-60's (24-28 micron). Ideal for spinning and felting.

Harrisville Dyed and Carded Wool Fiber description:

Felting a ball, a hat, or a pair of slippers, Harrisville Carded Wool fiber is a great choice. Harrisville's wool blend has a whisper of quick felting merino so it felts fairly quickly and creates a nice firm finished project. It's a great choice for slippers, boots, hats, mittens, and vests. Choose from the same 56 beautiful heathered colors as their knitting and weaving yarns.

Sold in 1/4 lb bags.

25-30 micron count fiber for softness and loft.