Week 4
Zwartbles
About the sheep
Jamain, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Originally from the Netherlands, they have characteristic chocolate brown to black fleece with lots of crimp
Raw fleece
Very bleached tips, which is apparently normal for the breed, dense and springy
I forgot to measure the raw weight
Washed fleece
Most of the fleece was sound, but there's a good chunk that was very tender, and went in the stuffing pile
- Staple length
- 9cm
- Staple shape
- pointed
- Fibre diameter
- medium
- Colour
- Dark brown, pale tips
- Lustre
- medium
- Bulk
- medium
- Soundness
- tender
Washed weight: 49g
Preparation
drum card
I forgot to measure the washed weight