British Sheep - Hill Wool Types

Wool from native hill breeds varies from fine, fairly soft handling fleeces which are used in yarns for knitting yarns and fabric, to a coarser, crisp fibre which has some resilience and ‘body’. It is usually within the 30-33 micron range.

Kemp, brittle white fibre, that will not easily dye, occurs in some of the coarser wools. If not excessive, this can be used for effect in tweeds and carpets.

Hill Wool Types Index

• Beulah Speckled Face
• Brecknock Hill Cheviot
• Cheviot
• Derbyshire Gritstone
• Exmoor Horn
• Hill Radnor
• Kerry Hill
• Lonk
• North Country Cheviot
• Shetland
• Welsh Hill Speckled Face
• White Faced Woodland

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