Here at Jager Farm we offer a variety of fiber products; they are all Icelandic, all farm grown, and all are our best quality. The Icelandic fleece is versatile by its very nature, the dual-coat lends it to a wide spectrum of fiber projects, the colors are rich and varied, and the textures range from the finest, silkiest lamb fleeces, all the way to the most durable fleeces, suitable for rug weaving. The arts of felting, spinning, knitting and weaving all have a long, rich history in Iceland due to the wonderful qualities of this surprising fiber.
Fresh Fall Fleeces: Finally! We are skirting our fall 2008 fleeces and will load them as soon as they are skirted. See our Fall Fleece page to see what's been added.
Mill washed fiber, carded into clean, soft roving, loosely coiled for storage. Always available, although color selection may vary. See our separate roving page page for our current listing.
Yarns: Our Icelandic fleeces mill spun into a variety of yarns. Some natural color, and some beautiful, custom Jager Farm Dyed. See our separate yarn page for all of our beautiful Icelandic yarns.
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| Mail: | Jager Farm
Icelandics 75 Mountain St. Haydenville, MA 01039 |
Colors definitions: Black can run the gamut from blue-black through black, to a warm brownish black or a grayed black. Moorit is the anglicized version of the Icelandic word morauð, which means the reddish-brown of the peat bogs. White ranges from a blinding bright white, through snowy white to cream and into a rich tan.
Gray when used to describe an Icelandic fleece is actually describing a pattern rather than a color. Gray fleeces are a natural mix of white thel, the downy, fine undercoat, and colored tog, the coarser, mohair-like outercoat. The color of the tog in a gray fleece will be either moorit or black. Badgerface fleeces are a real treasure with a mix of creamy tan fiber with a silvery-gray undercoat, and flashes of dark fiber at the edges, either black or moorit. A mouflon fleece is predominantly colored, with flashes of white around the margin, and can come in either black or moorit. There is also a gray-mouflon fleece that is still predominantly colored with white margins, but the colored section is also in the gray pattern, again either moorit or black.
Blended roving is a mill-blended mixture of a colored fleece and a white fleece together, and has a different visual effect than a gray fleece. Where grays fleeces have only white thel and colored tog, a "blend" has thel of both white and color, and tog of both white and color. The result is a lovely and subtle color blend.
Spotted fleeces are often processed with the two different colors mixed together during processing, resulting in a blended roving as described above. Or a different roving is created when the mill keeps the colors separate until the last run through the carder, when one color is layered on top of the other for more of a two-toned effect.