(from left to right - moorit/gray, solid moorit, and the bright white of spotting.
Black gray in the backround)
Yarn and Fiber Pricelist
Here at Jager Farm we offer a variety of fiber products; they are all Icelandic, all farm grown, and all are top quality. The Icelandic fleece is versatile by its very nature, the dual-coat lends it to a wide spectrum of fiber projects, the colors are rich and varied, and the textures range from the finest, silkiest lamb fleeces, all the way to the most durable, suitable for rug weaving. The arts of felting, spinning, knitting and weaving all have a long, rich history in Iceland due to the wonderful qualities of this surprising fiber.
Yarn
A selection of soft and colorful knitting yarns. From farm grown Icelandic fleeces carefully selected and skirted for top quality, spun at Taos Valley Wool Mill, and then custom dyed here at the farm in carefully designed colors and variegations.
Lace Weight: Almost a fingering weight, spun of 40% lamb fleece, and the best of the best of our adult fleeces. The lamb fiber gives it a wonderfully soft and downy feel, while the adult ensures strength to prevent breaks. Spun in the traditional single ply for softness, there are approximately 290 yards in a 2 oz. skein. Surprisingly versatile; whether knitted as a single for delicate lace scarves, or doubled or even tripled to add color and softness to your other knitting projects. Combines beautifully with other yarns to add color and a soft halo. This premium yarn presents a rare combination of fine weight, soft hand and surprising strength, making it a natural choice for weavers.
Our two natural colors. Natural Colors: $8/skein
Scarf made from triple-ply lace yarn. Three different colors were knit togeather in a knit 4 - purl 4 checkerboard. New colors were brought in, and a prior color rotated out. Extra colors were carried up through the margin, until they were needed again. There are 8 colors in the scarf, so it is a wonderful project for leftovers bits. Really fun to play with color combinations and progressions! The total weight is 5 ounces, although this one is overly long at 6 1/2', so 4 ounces would suffice. 24 stitches on size 10 needles.
Kettle Dyed Lace Weights: $10.50/skein
Roving: Mill washed fiber, carded into clean, soft rovings, loosely coiled for storage. Always available, although color selection may vary.
Roving Color Packs; Lamb Roving Color Packs
Fleeces: Skirted by spinners and for spinners, fall-shorn for our best quality and cleanliness.
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 togeather, 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 togeather 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.Shipping: please include 20% of your total order for priority mail, or 15% for parcel post. In a fiber emergency, UPS is also an option, please call or email for a price-quote. ~ In the New England area, only 15% is required for priority mail, and 10% will cover parcel post.
Ordering:
Email: fiber@jager-icelandics.com -
send me your order and I will package it up for mailing the day the check arrives.
** We accept personal or business checks, money orders and bank checks. **
Phone: 413-268-3086 - call in your order, or call with any questions.
| Mail: | Jager Farm Icelandics 75 Mountain St. Haydenville, MA 01039 |