I am on a quest to spin as many breeds of sheep as I can. After spinning each sample, I will knit it into small square that in some way represents that particular breed (with colourwork if I have more than one natural colour, or else with texture) and incorporate them into a vest, which will eventually turn into a jacket and then a coat.
If anyone has small samples of breeds I don’t have (I only need about 15g or 0.5 oz), please let me know. I have many breeds to trade. Breeds with a capital ‘T’ beside them are ones I have available for trade in quantities of at least 25g. Breeds with a small ‘t’ beside them are breeds I should have in smaller quantities for trade.
Breeds I have:
- Alpines Steinshaf (stonesheep) (grey)
- Argali (white)
- Baby Doll (grey)
- Bergschafe (Swiss Black-Brown Mountain)(grey, brown)
- Berichon de cher (white)
- Beulah Speckled Faced (white)
- Biellese (brown) T
- Blue-Faced Leicester (white, brown)
- Bond (white brown)
- Border Leicester (white grey)
- Boreray (white)
- Bowmont (white) (8g)
- California Red (red)
- California Variagated Mutant (beige brown)
- Castlemilk Moorit (light and dark brown)
- Charollaise (white) T
- Cheviot (white beige black) T
- Churro (various) T
- Clun Forest (white)
- Columbia (white) T
- Coopworth (various greys)
- Cormo (white)
- Corriedale (white brown) T
- Cotswold (white grey)
- Criollo (brown) T
- Debouillet (white)
- Devon (white) t
- Dorset, horned (white)
- Dorset, polled (white)
- Drents heideschaap (heathsheep)(every colour!) t
- East Friesian (white) T
- Eider (German Whitedheaded Mutton) (white)
- Est a Laine (white)
- Falkland (white)
- Finn (various) T
- Florida Cracker (red, white) T
- Fox-Coburg (red)
- German Blackheaded Mutton (Schwarzkopfschaf) (various)
- Gotland (grey, charcoal) t
- Grå Trøndersau (3 greys)
- Gulf Coast Native (white) t
- Hampshire Down (white) T
- Hebridean (charcoal) t
- Heidschnucke (greys)
- Herdwick (grey) T
- Hill Radnor (white)
- Hog Island (white, brown) T
- Hollands Bont Schaap (charcoal, white)
- Icelandic (various)
- Ile de France (white)
- Jacob (white black)
- Kainuun Harmas (various)
- Karakul (charcoal white) T
- Katahdin (white, tan) t
- Kerry Hill (white)
- Krainer Steinschaf (black, grey)
- Lauticauda T
- Letelle (South African Fine) (white)
- Liecester Longwool (white)
- Lincoln (white grey)
- Lleyn (white)
- Lonk (white) T
- Manx Loughtan (brown) t
- Masham (white)
- Mergellander (white)
- Merino (white brown)
- Montadale (white)
- Nash Is/Pen Bay Is (Maine) (white/brown) T
- Newfoundland (grey)
- Norfolk Horn (white) t
- North Ronaldsay (grey) T
- Oropa (white) T
- Ouessant (white, black) T
- Oxford (white) t
- Perendale (white)
- Polwarth (white)
- Pomeranian Coarsewool (grey)
- Portland (white) t
- Punta Arenas (white) T
- Rambouillet (white)
- Rhönschaf (reddish off-white)
- Rideau Arcott (white)
- Romeldale (white)
- Romney (brown grey) T
- Rough Fell (white)
- Ryeland (brown white) T
- Santa Cruz (white)
- Schoonebeker Heideschaap (white, grey)
- Shropshire (white) T
- Scottish Blackface (white)
- Shetland (various)
- Soay (brown)
- Solognote (white)
- Southdown (white)
- Spelsau (grey)
- Stansborough Grey (grey)
- Stein (grey)
- Suffolk (white) T
- Swaledale (grey) T
- Swifter (white)
- Targhee (white)
- Teeswater (white)
- Texel (white)
- Texel, Blue (grey)
- Tunis (white)
- Valaise (Walliser Schwarznasenschaf)(white)
- Waldschaf (white)
- Walliser Landschaf (black)
- Warhill (white)
- Welsh Mountain Black (black) T
- Wensleydale (white grey)
- Whitefaced Woodland (white)
- Zwartbles (black)
(Thank you, Ravellers and others for helping me grow this list. You are WONDERFUL!)