Ashford NZ Wool Fiber to Spin and Felt description:

Brighten your spinning and felting with colorful New Zealand Corriedale wool sliver (top). Ashford's wool fiber has a huge array of colors - ready to spin, blend and felt.

Beginning spinners, this is your fiber! Its natural crimp is even and smooth, but also well-defined which keeps it from slipping through your fingers as quickly as some finer breeds. This bit of extra time makes it easier to focus on the mechanics of spinning. Even starting out it's more fun to spin with colors you like and experiment with combining hues - Ashford delivers rich hues to try your hand with and since it's available in small quantities you can mix and beknds to your heart's content!

Experienced spinners will enjoy playing with the range of colors as well and the easy consistent spin makes a great yarn on its own or blended with other fibers. Mix, match, and card the solid colors to create subtle heathers and rainbow designer yarns. Plus, creating a color wheel for a deeper dive into color theory is easy with Ashford's saturated color palette.

Felters love Ashford tops alone or blended to create infinite colors and it's a great medium texture for both bigger pieces or smaller details in both wet and needle (dry) felting. 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.

Ashford's Corriedale is 100% pure New Zealand wool ethically produced from non-mulesed, grass-fed sheep from farms local to the mill. The processing is done using an eco-firendly, biodegradable wash and dyed with ecologically safe Oeko-Tex compliant dyes. Beautifully processed with care in a family-run mill this fiber requires no additional preparation and therefore no waste as you work with it.

Fibers have a staple length of approximately 4.25" and are 27-30 microns.

Available by the ounce or pound, no fiber stash is complete without a selection of this versatile wool!

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 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. 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.

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:

Blue Face Leicester fiber, hand-dyed in Maine by Linda Whiting from Pine Star Studio. 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.

Icelandic Top Wool Fiber description:

The Icelandic sheep, part of the oldest and purest breeds of sheep, is a cousin of the Shetland and Finn. The fleece is dual coated, with a fine undercoat called thel and a longer, coarser outer coat called tog. The tog fiber (fiber we carry) with a spinning count of 56's-60's, micron of 35 and staple length of 6-8" is lustrous, strong, and water-resistant. Available in 4 natural shades. White-1, Brown-2, Black-3, Grey-4.

Jacob Blend description:

Jacobs are known for their distinctive spotted white and brown fleece. Staple lengths range from 3 to 6 inches, micron 27-35 and count of 46's-54's. Jacob Blend is a mix of white, grey, and black.

Mauch Chunky Roving description:

Mauch Chunky Roving is a wonderfully versatile custom blended 100% domestic wool roving. It's an excellent choice for both needle and wet felting as well as hand spinning. Choose from eight heathered colors.

Merino Prefelt - Dyed description:

Save time and effort on a variety of felting projects with our 21 micron, lightly needled merino wool prefelt. Use as a base and cut down on labor intensive layout time or cut into different shapes and sizes and apply to a surface. It's thick enough to be used alone or can be layered to the desired thickness. Perfect for use in nuno felting and shibori. Dyes well with either Country Classic Dyes or Wash Fast Acid Dyes.