Natural Grey wool for felting and spinning | Textured wool top | 100g

Description Genuinely one of my all time favourite fibre blends to spin. This super soft, natural grey wool combed top has viscose nepps mixed in for extra texture, so when you create thinner yarns they come out with a marvellous tweed effect.The wool content is South American wool, milled in the UK, with added nepps in a 70/30 proportion. The nepps don’t absorb wool dyes, so if you decide dye this yourself you’ll get a really fun wool top with black bits blended in.This fibre blend also felts really well, and again the added texture of the viscose means you’ll get some tweed-like texture in your work – perfect for those who, like me, love to look at little changes in a woollen artwork. The black “dots” look amazing against the natural grey of the wool.Click here to get this wool in natural white. A word on viscose Viscose is a plant-based fibre derived from cellulose, usually wood or bamboo pulp. The production of this particular fibre comes from controlled and certified wood sources, in a closed-loop manufacturing system in Italy. I have done some research and am happy this is as an eco-friendly a fibre as a regenerated/semi-synthetic one can be. 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 This wool top is two shades of natural grey, with little black nepps. I think the photos reflect this accurately (with a tiny hint of blue perhaps), but bear in mind our monitor settings might differ from each other. Related