{"id":13119,"date":"2023-01-27T15:40:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T15:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/?p=13119"},"modified":"2023-01-27T15:40:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T15:40:58","slug":"the-icelandic-wool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/is\/2023\/01\/27\/the-icelandic-wool\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00cdslenska ullin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 name indicates, it has a short tail. But it also has two kinds of hair. Long coarse one that is water repellent; it throws the water off, so the sheep is dry. That hair we call \u201cTOG\u201d which means \u201cto pull\u201d and it can get very long. Usually it is a bit curly and it has a lustrous shine to it. When you see an Icelandic sheep from a far, that is the hair you see, and that is the hair that gives our sheep this luxury look like they are a bouncing fur ball. The other hair we call \u201c\u00deEL\u201d (pronounced thel). It is the inner hair, closest to the skin of the sheep and it is insulating, keeping the sheep warm. It is also very soft and when you want to make something soft and warm, you part these two hairs and use only the thel.\"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

Working with the wool in my mill is always a pleasure and sometimes it is like working with art. The colours of the Icelandic sheep are so many and so beautiful and each and everyone of them give a different shade when I have made yarn from it. Sometimes I get such a beautiful fleeces that I just don\u2019t want to mess it up or do anything but just watch it\u2026 so I take aside a tiny little peace of wool, just to remember how pretty it can be.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When we at Uppspuni work the Icelandic wool, we use a fibre separator that takes some of the coarser hair away. We don\u2019t want to remove everything of it, because it gives strength to our yarn. We even do not use the fibre separator when we make our sock yarn, because then we get all the strength from the tog in the yarn. That way we can skip using plastic (nylon) to reinforce it for sock \u2013 knitting. We only use the natural Icelandic wool and the socks are strong and last much longer than we are used to with wool socks,- at least that is my experience. And when we have worn them out we can just put them in the compost pile, because there is no plastic in them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We can take the wool more often through the fibre separator and get more thel for a softer kind of yarn, and we actually do it in our \u201cHJ\u00d3NABAND\u201d \u2013 hj\u00f3naband means marriage in Icelandic, or \u201cthe thread that ties the couple together\u201d and we found it a good name for our soft thel yarn.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mig langar a\u00f0 fr\u00e6\u00f0a ykkur meira um \u00edslenska ull h\u00e9r \u00ed blogginu m\u00ednu, \u00feannig a\u00f0 \u00e9g \u00e6tla a\u00f0 segja fr\u00e1 hverjum lit s\u00e9rstaklega. \u00cd n\u00e6stu p\u00f3stum munu \u00fev\u00ed birtast fr\u00f3\u00f0leiksmolar um ullarlitina okkar og garni\u00f0 sem m\u00e1 gera \u00far \u00feeim,- mun v\u00e6ntanlega taka einhverjar vikur.<\/strong>
\nStarting with the colour \u201cWHITE\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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