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The goat-dress!
When we started Uppspuni, we decided to spin the fibre from the goats in Iceland for the farmers that have goats, and want their fibre
September 5, 2025
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In memoriam of my father-in-law; Sveinn Tyrfingsson
On the 14th of January 2025, my father-in-law passed away. He was a remarkable man in many ways, yet in this post, I am only
January 27, 2025
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The Icelandic goat.
The people that decided to move to Iceland in early ages of settlement, took all the animals with them that they thought would be good
April 1, 2023
100% Icelandic wool
The Icelandic wool – GREY
Talk about fifty shades of grey… I think there are even more than fifty. It just seems to be endless possibilities and when we make
February 25, 2023
100% Icelandic wool
The Icelandic wool – BROWN
In Icelandic we call it mórautt or moorit. Like in all the other colours we have many shades of brown in the Icelandic sheep’s flock,
February 16, 2023
100% Icelandic wool
The Icelandic wool – BLACK
Oh the black sheep. How wonderful it can be to have in your flock. We actually have most of the greyish black or the brownish
February 9, 2023
100% Icelandic wool
The Icelandic wool – WHITE
Icelandic farmers have been asked, for very many years, to breed white sheep. Why is that? Because the big industry wants to make the same
February 1, 2023
100% Icelandic wool
The Icelandic Wool
We only have one breed of sheep in Iceland, The Icelandic sheep. It belongs to the North Atlantic Native Short Tail Breed. So as the
January 27, 2023
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Goat farmers.
We are goat farmers When we started thinking about putting up a mini mill in Iceland, back in 2016, we were contacted by goat farmers
April 14, 2022
Rare and beautiful things in our shop
Few of our other-than-yarn products. Many rare things can be found at our shop. ????
June 25, 2020
