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This year I spun different kinds of wool: Icelandic wool Shetlandwool Wool from Texel Wool from Drenthe Preyarn |
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Because I prefer knitting with real wool, I started spinning again. Not like I used to do with one ply and very thick, but two-plyed, twined, and as fine as possible. In Wales I found an address where I ordered some nice Icelandic wool to experiment with. Jill sent me wool of one of her sheep. (see the photos below)
This wool is very soft consisting of two different fibres: hairy wool on top and soft underneath. The colours show different nuances, from white till dark beige. When spun it looks like this:
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Sheep from Texel are well known all over the world. The wool is easy to spin and has a good quality. On the left photo you can see carded and spun wool, from which the light brown has been dyed with husks of the walnut.
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Wool from
Drenthe
This wool is not as rough as I always thought it would be. It reminds me a bit of the top of the Icelandic fleece. I already tried it out and have spun some of it. |
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Untill only a few months I had never heard about Preyarn. The moment I received some from Sweden I asked myself what to do with it. For knitting it seemed too loose. It looks a bit like a yarn, but unspun and therefore without any strenght. Besides it was not dyed in one colour but in different shades. It appears to be very popular in the Nordic countries to knit or first spin it. I succeeded in spinning it in three different colours and made another pair of gloves with it. This wool is very soft and has a very nice quality.
On the next photo you can see clearly how preyarn looks like before and after spinning. The blue wool is also a kind of preyarn but from Iceland (Plötulopi) and a little bit thicker.
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