Jacob Fleece and Yarn

You'll love to spin with Jacob wool. Jacob wool is soft, lustrous, and
springy - perfect for sweaters, shawls, socks, many knitted and woven projects.

Our flock of registered Jacob sheep, provides hand-spinning quality
wool, and purebred breeding stock. With plenty of pasture on our Iowa farm, we keep our Jacobs clean and healthy. Jacobs are a spotted sheep, and their fleeces provide a wide variation in colors when spun. According to registration standards, a sheep may be from 15% black to 85% black. Breeders prefer about 40% black or thereabouts. The sun sometimes bleaches some of the black to a deep brown at the tips, so there is an attractive range of possible color combinations. Please let us know if you prefer more white or more black than the standard mix and we'll do our best to accommodate your order.

We carefully skirt the fleeces after shearing so that your purchase will be ready for hand-spinning. If for any reason you are not satisfied with a purchased fleece, we will refund your money if the fleece is returned to us within 30 days.

Fleece Prices:
Premium fleeces - ewes, lambs, wethers @ $12.00 per pound. Fleeces range in weight from about 2.5 to 4 pounds, after skirting.

Quantity discount - If you buy 2 or more fleeces, we reduce your bill by 15%; buy 5 or more and we reduce your bill by 25%.

Yarn Prices (from our fleece, commercially spun by Blackberry Ridge
Woolen Mill)

Cones, $32.00 per pound (cone weights vary from about 1 to 2 lbs.- some colors available in 4 oz. skeins - $8.00 per skein) or we can make balls in any weight you wish. (Sport weight, medium, or bulky: 2 ply - A light gray (almost white), medium gray, & dark gray (almost black). Also ragg - gray/white 1 ply each in a 2 ply- medium and bulky only for ragg.

Shipping and Billing. We ship UPS and USPS, adding the shipping charge to your bill mailed separately by U.S. Mail. We require payment within 30 days from receipt of shipment - check or money order only.

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