Natural Grey BFL wool top for felting or spinning | 100g

Description A super soft natural grey BFL wool combed top mixed with dyed black BFL for a lovely two-tone effect. This is one beautiful fibre to spin or felt with, with a bit of an alpaca feel to it due to its 26-micron count (meaning it’s soft, but not too wispy.) Blue Faced Leicester, or BFL, is a British native breed and this fibre is sourced and milled here in the UK.This wool also felts really well, and I particularly like to see the slight variegation the black gives to the felt against the natural grey. Is this fibre a wool top or a roving? I hope you think this is a good question, because there is definitely a difference between combed wool top and roving. Both expressions are often used to represent the same item, but they are quite different. In fact, I am inserting this explanation here so I can use the expression “wool roving” correctly and still please the search algorithm gods. Sneaky.Combed wool top such as this are processed in the mill to remove the short fibre staples, and all the longer remaining fibres have been combed to face the same direction.Wool roving, on the other hand, still retains some shorter fibres and not all face the same direction, so it will have a fuzzier appearance.Both are fantastic types of fibre processing, they’re just different. Colour Disclaimer The photos reflect the grey and black hues of this BFL wool accurately, but with a tiny hint of extra blue that I couldn’t remove. Bear in mind my monitor settings might differ from yours. Related