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Region: West Scotland
Medium/full bodied ginger/brown fleeces
Average Fleece Weight: 1-2 KG
Average Staple length: 2-4 inches.
Micron Range: 30-32
Recommended Craft Areas - Needle Felting, spinning, blending for colouration
Unique features: A short, fluffy staple combined with a beautiful ginger/brown throughout colouration and sandy coloured tips makes the Castlemilk Moorit fantastic for needle felting the colouration, blending the colouration with longer staple wools for peg loom colouration and it is also soft enough to spin to produce fantastic Moorit yarn.
These Ginger/Brown (moorit) coloured sheep are very tough and resilient to most weather and ground conditions. They typically have a small body but are very long legged and are native to Western Scotland.
Their fleeces range from a cream, tan and brown in places and it is very soft to handle and work with. Their fleece only covers their body only, so typically don't have much weight to the fleeces due to a smaller body compared to other sheep breeds. They have 2 horns, regardless of gender! The male horns produce more of a spiral shape around their ears, whereas the females remain semi curled but above their ears.
Their wool is very easy to work with all round but particularly great for needle felting ginger/brown natural tufts. We personally find it a little too coarse for underlayers of clothing and spinning but it excels in outer garments in clothing and produces some amazing wildlife colours for needle felting. Castlemilk Moorit goes extremely well to make a white wool sandy coloured in a blend.
Region: West Scotland
Medium/full bodied ginger/brown fleeces
Average Fleece Weight: 1-2 KG
Average Staple length: 2-4 inches.
Micron Range: 30-32
Recommended Craft Areas - Needle Felting, spinning, blending for colouration
Unique features: A short, fluffy staple combined with a beautiful ginger/brown throughout colouration and sandy coloured tips makes the Castlemilk Moorit fantastic for needle felting the colouration, blending the colouration with longer staple wools for peg loom colouration and it is also soft enough to spin to produce fantastic Moorit yarn.
These Ginger/Brown (moorit) coloured sheep are very tough and resilient to most weather and ground conditions. They typically have a small body but are very long legged and are native to Western Scotland.
Their fleeces range from a cream, tan and brown in places and it is very soft to handle and work with. Their fleece only covers their body only, so typically don't have much weight to the fleeces due to a smaller body compared to other sheep breeds. They have 2 horns, regardless of gender! The male horns produce more of a spiral shape around their ears, whereas the females remain semi curled but above their ears.
Their wool is very easy to work with all round but particularly great for needle felting ginger/brown natural tufts. We personally find it a little too coarse for underlayers of clothing and spinning but it excels in outer garments in clothing and produces some amazing wildlife colours for needle felting. Castlemilk Moorit goes extremely well to make a white wool sandy coloured in a blend.