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7. Avoid going over the same place twice to tidy up on overlapping your strokes.
8. If you are selling to a dealer, roll the fleece properly and tie with twine.
9. If you have sheep with varied colored fleeces, keep the colors separate, and remember to sweep the floor after each shearing. Do not combine white fleece with dark fleece.
10. Clean fleeces used for spinning wool without manure tags, skirtings or vegetation as they command the best price.
11. If the fleece is of a lower quality, don't expect to get the best price. These fleeces can be adequate for wool filled quilt batting, cushions, rug yarn, or felting.
Handling of sheep:
Timely shearing is one of the important aspects in getting a high-quality pelt – a pelt is the skin of a slaughtered sheep that still has wool on it. Another important aspect is stressed by tanneries who will most likely discard any pelt that has several cuts or more than two cuts in the middle of the skin.
Picking a sheep up by its wool can be disastrous to a pelt because the outer layer pf skin is pulled away from the inner skin and skin separation occurs. Skin separation can take as long as 2 months to heal, and unless the pelt has been completely healed it has very, very low value.
8. If you are selling to a dealer, roll the fleece properly and tie with twine.
9. If you have sheep with varied colored fleeces, keep the colors separate, and remember to sweep the floor after each shearing. Do not combine white fleece with dark fleece.
10. Clean fleeces used for spinning wool without manure tags, skirtings or vegetation as they command the best price.
11. If the fleece is of a lower quality, don't expect to get the best price. These fleeces can be adequate for wool filled quilt batting, cushions, rug yarn, or felting.
Handling of sheep:
Timely shearing is one of the important aspects in getting a high-quality pelt – a pelt is the skin of a slaughtered sheep that still has wool on it. Another important aspect is stressed by tanneries who will most likely discard any pelt that has several cuts or more than two cuts in the middle of the skin.
Picking a sheep up by its wool can be disastrous to a pelt because the outer layer pf skin is pulled away from the inner skin and skin separation occurs. Skin separation can take as long as 2 months to heal, and unless the pelt has been completely healed it has very, very low value.