Icelandic sheep are the world's oldest purebred sheep. Throughout their 1100 years of history, the Icelandic breed have truly been triple-purpose, treasured for the meat, milk & fiber.
Iceland is best known for their wool around the world. Their wool is of dual character: a fine soft undercoat (called thel) and a long coarser coat (called tog).
The tog fiber is strong and wear resistant, not unlike mohair and sheds rain and dirt well. Thel, the downy undercoat, provides loft for the outer coat and keeps the animal warm and dry. The tog comes from the primary hair follicles and the thel from secondary follicles. The fiber coming from the primary follicles of Icelandic sheep is not kemp or guard hair, but true wool.
We started raising these beautiful, vital, and healthy sheep naturally 8 years ago, mainly because our Certified Organic Vegetable, Herb and Flower gardens needed lots of organic matter.
We are Colorado's first USDA Certified Scrapie Free Icelandic Flock!
Please check out our wonderful pelts, roving, handspun, and other Icelandic products in our store!!!!
The versatility of the wool, the ease of spinning and wide variation of beautiful tones and colors are a true delight to weavers, hand spinners, and knitters, placing Icelandic wool in the exotic or premium category.
Processed at Lonesome Stone Natural Fiber Mill, Granby, Colorado.
Cherry Creek Farm - Specializing in Purebred Registered USDA Scrapie-free Certified Icelandic Sheep products: fleeces, roving, felt batting, millspun and handspun yarn and pelts.
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