Raw Fleece - White Windridge Fiber Farm

Raw Fleece - White

We go to great lengths to keep our fleece in premium condition. Our sheep free range the idyllic rolling hills and woods of Southwest Wisconsin; they enjoy a wide variety of naturally grown pasture and forest plants. Because of this you will occasionally find small bits of organically grown vegetation in their fleece. We do not coat or cover our sheep, this requires more effort in our feeding practice, but we prefer an uncoated fleece. Coated fleeces will often have matting/felting that occurs on the tips of the wool. Our fleece is high quality fleece. From the shearing floor it is well skirted, to remove any soiled and undesirable wool; this means that you receive only premium wool.

Our fleeces have consistently placed in the top of the Medium and Course Wool Divisions of the Handspinners class at the Wisconsin Sheep and Wool Festival Fleece Show for both the colored and white fleece.

Most of our fleece falls into the medium crimp category. This is a good fleece for spinning and felting. Our flock is a make up of various breeds, crossed for their beautiful fleece. We have Salish, Merino, Border Leicester, English Leicester, and Blue Faced Leicester. The cross of Fine Wool breeds with the Long Wool breeds creates a medium wool that is easy to work with and has the wonderful Longwool luster.

We shear our breeding stock in early November. The lambs are shorn in October. Watch for new fleeces to be listed for sale in those months!

Because some of our fleeces may be larger than you need, we will gladly split any fleece weighing over 4 pounds in half or to 2 lb increments.

Our white fleece have the luster of the longwools, the fleeces shimmer in the sun. These are beautiful in their natural color or will work great in your dying projects.

*Note-we are sold out of most of our spring fleeces, if you would like to be notified by email when we shear in the fall please contact us. Thank you!

White fleeces

Arthur is a Blue Faced Leicester Merino cross. He has a crimpy small lock that is very much BFL.
Fleece Weight: 4.5 lbs Staple length: 4.5" $10.00/per lb.

Reserved for fall 07

Lily is so named for her lily white fleece. Her fleece placed in the top of its class last year. This fleece needs a good washing and it will be beautiful in any project. It has a nice luster from her Border/English Leicester lineage. She is also Salish and Targhee.
Fleece Weight: 5.75 lbs. Staple Length: 4" $7.00/per lb.

Hope has a very nice fleece, it has great luster and a medium crimp that will make it easy to spin.   English leicester, Targhee, Merino.
Fleece Weight: 5lbs   Staple Length: 4-5" $8.00/per lb

Isabelle has a medium course fleece with an incredible luster.

Fleece weight: 5.5 lb Staple length: 5" $8.00/per lb.

Elizabeth is a Registered Cotswold, a rare longwool breed. Unfortunately this picture does not do this fleece justice, it has such a wonderful silvery shimmer! This wool just shines!
Fleece weight:5.75 lbs. Staple Length: 5" $10.00/per lb.