Whiteface Woodland Wool Top

About the fibre

Staple length 100mm Micron count 35-38

Medium-coarse

Lofty and easy to spin and felt.

Natural white

Each bag contains 100g of wool.

About the breed

The Whiteface Woodland is a rare sheep breed from the Woodlands of Hope in the area of South Pennines in England. It is a combination of breeding the Woodland and the Penistone sheep. It is thought to be closely related to the Swaledale and the Lonk.

They are one of the largest of the hill breeds. Both rams and ewes are horned, and the rams' horns are spiralled.

Mark Hogan from London, UK, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons