Types of Sheep Wool

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Summary: Watch a naturalist from the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Drumlin Farm explain the difference between types of sheep wool in this free online video.

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Tia Pinney Tia Pinney is a Teacher Naturalist and Adult Program Coordinator at Mass Audubon’s Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary in Lincoln, Massachusetts. She is involved ... read more

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Types of Sheep Wool

Okay so types of wool. Here we have a basic wool breed sheep that produces a lovely lustrous coat, the Romney Corriedale's are long, very kinky wool that produces a strong fiber. It is a wonderful fiber and very sturdy. This wool would be used mostly in things like rugs or coats, things that need some strength and don't need to be super fine. This is not a very fine, fine wool. The fine wools are the Moreno's and the Ramblas and those come on a completely different kind of sheep. Any given sheep will give you a somewhat of a variety of fineness to their wool but it is pretty much by their breed that you can determine whether the wool will be fine or not. This wool once she is full grown by next March, she will have a fleece that is anywhere from 4 to 5 even 6 inches long and some sheep are longer and some sheep are shorter but that is what we are mostly concerned with for wool, is the fineness. When you get to a fine grade suit or sweater or any article of clothing, usually you are using a Moreno. A wool like this one is great for a hand nit sweater or as I said before, rugs. And mostly this type of wool comes the Romney now is grown mostly in New Zealand. Believe it or not, most of the wool in the world is still grown in the Southern Hemisphere. Australia and New Zealand are the largest wool producers in the world but the processing happens in the Northern Hemisphere so wool is really part of our global economy.