Washing fleece and a well dressed loom

Strider and Beck Alpaca

Washing Fleece

Rug on Loom

Lovely weekend with spring like weather.  In progress is washing alpaca fleece.  I use buckets with Orvus surfactant and cold water from the hose to wash alpaca.  One long soak in soapy water then a couple of rinses and the sand and some of the vegi matter is out of the fleece.  Sheep fleece has lanolin that needs hot water, but alpaca is easy. One of the reasons I love alpaca.  The fawn in the above photo is Strider, and the white is Beck.  These are seconds, shorter bits and second cuts, destined to be felt.  Stay tuned...
Final photo is my well dressed loom.  It has been neaked for a long.... time.  In progress is a rug of hand spun wool.  The brown and grey are both from the stashes of deceased friends living on...