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These yarns are mill spun from our own fleeces. We skirt for our yarns very carefully, to ensure consistency and a lovely, soft hand. Some are natural colors, and some are dyed here at the farm. We love to dye yarn! And we hope that the passion comes through in our color work. We are constantly trying new colors, new color ways, and new styles of variegation.
Thank you for your interest in Jager Farm Icelandic yarns!
Jager Farm Lace Weight
A single ply yarn that is better described as a fingering weight. Approximately 264 yards in a 2 ounce skein. Spun of about 40-50% lamb's wool and our softest, silkiest adults, this yarn is surprising versatile. Lace knitters love it on needle size 0 to 3. Use larger needles, size 10-13 for a light, open scarf or sweater. Size 4-5 for socks, or for a single ply scarf. We like to use two or three plys together of different colors, for rich and varying color effects. We are reaching the end of our current spin of white, so some of our colors have limited amounts. We have a plentiful supply of our dark gray, so our darker hues can be ordered in larger numbers.
$10.50/skein
Indigo Piney Woods (L to R): Minaret 1 skein., Gems 1 skein,
many skeins available of both Peacock Feathers 5 skeins, Storm Clouds 5 skeins.
Pumpkin Creme, 3 skeins Wrapping Paper, 2 skeins Pastel Rainbow, 2 skeins
These five skeins are all single skeins of unnamed colors. Order from left to right.
As "only's" they are discounted to $9/skein.
DK Icelandic Yarn
Skeins are single ply, approximately 3.5 ounces, 235 yards. Suggested needle size, 4-6. Suitable for a wide array of projects, including hats and mittens, scarves and sweaters. Can be used for patterns written for sport weight or worsted weight. Very versatile.
$15/skein
Natural black. A lovely, cool black with just a hint of gray. (pictured left)
Moorit, a rich, reddish brown that is difficult to photograph true to color. The moorit skein in DK Color Pack 1 pictured below has a much better depiction of the true color. (pictured right)
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DK Color Pack 1: One skein each of tan, white and moorit. Separately they would sell for $45.00; buy the color pack for $42.00 plus shipping. There is only one color pack 1 available. Approximately 10.5 oz and 705 yards total for the pack.
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Shipping: please email for a shipping quote. We don't charge for handling, only the actual shipping cost. In a fiber emergency, UPS is also an option, please call or email for a price-quote.
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| Mail: | Jager Farm
Icelandics 75 Mountain St. Haydenville, MA 01039 |
Colors definitions: Black can run the gamut from blue-black through black, to a warm brownish black or a grayed black. Moorit is the anglicized version of the Icelandic word morautt, which means the reddish-brown of the peat bogs. White ranges from a blinding bright white, through snowy white to cream and into a rich tan.
Gray when used to describe an Icelandic fleece is actually describing a pattern rather than a color. Gray fleeces are a natural mix of white thel, the downy, fine undercoat, and colored tog, the coarser, mohair-like outercoat. The color of the tog in a gray fleece will be either moorit or black. Badgerface fleeces are a real treasure with a mix of creamy tan fiber with a silvery-gray undercoat, and flashes of dark fiber at the edges, either black or moorit. A mouflon fleece is predominantly colored, with flashes of white around the margin, and can come in either black or moorit. There is also a gray-mouflon fleece that is still predominantly colored with white margins, but the colored section is also in the gray pattern, again either moorit or black.
Blended roving is a mill-blended mixture of a colored fleece and a white fleece together, and has a different visual effect than a gray fleece. Where grays fleeces have only white thel and colored tog, a "blend" has thel of both white and color, and tog of both white and color. The result is a lovely and subtle color blend.
Spotted fleeces are often processed with the two different colors mixed together during processing, resulting in a blended roving as described above. Or a different roving is created when the mill keeps the colors separate until the last run through the carder, when one color is layered on top of the other for more of a two-toned effect.