Barn Owl. British Wool Scarf with Icelandic Lambswool

Barn Owl

100% British wool

This warm scarf is inspired by the frosty wintery sun and long shadows cast by the trees over the fields when I check the sheep. The white of the barn owl hunting. 

Twill weave with rare breed fleeces from across the South West and Wales. This weave will curl up when wet, you can wear it curled or dry it flat and steam it to make it stay flat again.

Blade shorn grey lambswool from my beautiful Icelandic lambs. This is part of a series woven with  Black Kat's stunning lambswool Icelandic fleece.

The white warp threads are from a rare breed flock in Wales, Llanwenog sheep. I bought a cone from the smallholder and loved it so much I bought the rest. It has fluffed up beautifully.

Icelandic fleeces have two layers; the thel and the tog. Both are spun together here so this warm wrap around scarf has the telly tale halo of the longer fibres and the warmth and bounce of the shorter crimpy fibres.

The black Jacob is from a small flock on Exmoor who join me on shearing day so that they are blade shorn along with my flock.