Services and Prices

At this time we only accept skirted and washed fleeces (due to relocation our ability to wash fleeces is weather and rainfall dependent). Instructions for skirting and washing below.

We will only card washed Fibre to keep machine downtime to a minimum so we can keep our cost to you as low as possible.

Carding (into roving)

Batts (approx size 180cm x 54cm)

Blending

Please Note:

We have a minimum charge of the charge for 1kg of the requested service.

Postage and packing is additonal to the prices quoted.

All prices are based on the weight of the fleece received by us.

We would like to remind you that it is your responsibility to skirt and clean the fleeces before you send them to us. This is very important for the following reasons:

• Any strong hairs, leaves, sticks or grass, etc. may end up in your finished product.
• The carder will card to the longer fibers, so if you leave in the shorts they will fall to the floor and you will pay to have them carded but not receive them back in the finished product.
• If there is anything hard in the fleeces, such as the odd stone, nail, etc, it will damage the rollers on our carder and is likely that we will not be able to repair the machine.

How To Skirt Fleece

Skirting is the operation of removing all faults and all wool that does not match the bulk of your fleece.

Lie your fleece stretched out on a flat surface.

Remove the short greasy edge pieces of wool. Remove the belly wool as it is often dirty and stained.

Remove all dags, neck wool and wool from around the legs and top knots.

Try to remove as much vegetable matter as possible eg. twigs, seeds, hay, thistles etc.. No amount of carding will remove all vegetation, it may well spread through your fleece during the carding process.

A well skirted fleece will produce a much better quality finished product.