{"id":7202,"date":"2021-11-27T08:22:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T07:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/?p=7202"},"modified":"2021-11-27T08:22:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T07:22:44","slug":"vegetable-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/vegetable-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetable matter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A while ago I bought a fleece online. It was just one of those spur of the moment purchases, when fleece just happens<\/a>. It was a beautiful gute fleece<\/a> with silky soft undercoat, long and fine outercoat and quirky kemp. However, as the fleece landed on my doorstep it turned out to be full of vegetable matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had very mixed feelings about this fleece. On the one hand, an unusually soft gute fleece. On the other hand, all the vegetable matter, all over the fleece. My solution was to fall for the fleece, learn from the vegetable matter and share my thoughts and techniques with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A villh\u00f6ver kind of fleece<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Gute wool<\/a> is typically medium to coarse and can be rough (which is not necessarily bad). The undercoat is usually fine or very fine, but in combination with coarser outercoat and the quirky kemp the feeling on the whole is usually rough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This fleece on the other hand has the softest undercoat in a very airy distribution. The outercoat fibers are long and fine. The kemp, that helps keeping the fleece open, airy and thereby warm, is present over the whole fleece but is also finer than usual in my experience. This very fine undercoat in combination with kemp is very interesting (and rare) and I wonder what she wants to become. The fleece is quite homogenous (also unusual for a gute fleece) with staples of mainly airy undercoat and few strands of outercoat. I would call this vadmal type staples<\/a>, also quite rare, especially like this over the whole fleece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n