Week 5
Silvernose
About the sheep
Silvernose sheep, from Patchwork Sheep
This is a cross between Valais Blacknose and Grey Faced Dartmoor. I couldn't find much about the breed, there's no breed society I could find.
Raw fleece
Really long!
I forgot to measure the raw weight
Washed fleece
- Staple length
- 16cm
- Staple shape
- flat
- Fibre diameter
- medium
- Colour
- White
- Lustre
- high
- Bulk
- medium
- Soundness
- sound
I forgot to measure the washed weight
Preparation
flick card
I forgot to measure the washed weight