{"id":13121,"date":"2023-02-01T17:51:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T17:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/?p=13121"},"modified":"2023-02-01T18:09:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T18:09:57","slug":"the-icelandic-wool-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/is\/2023\/02\/01\/the-icelandic-wool-white\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00cdslenska ullin - HV\u00cdTT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0\u00cdslenskir b\u00e6ndur hafa lengi veri\u00f0 be\u00f0nir um a\u00f0 r\u00e6kta hv\u00edtt f\u00e9.<\/strong><strong>ry many years, to breed white sheep. Why is that? Because the big industry wants to make the same colour every year for it\u2019s customers. The customer wants to be able to buy more brown next year to finish the sweater he started last year. The best way to get the same colour is to dye white wool. So that is why the white wool is worth more and farmers have gotten more money for the white wool.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Icelandic sheep has very many colours, and we still have, I want to say; All the colours that the Icelandic sheep can offer us\u201d and \u201cAll the colours that the Icelandic sheep had, when it first came to our country with the settlers in the year of 874 and there about.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13157\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13157\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13157 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/319903157_454022766946122_5061091410532995660_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/319903157_454022766946122_5061091410532995660_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/319903157_454022766946122_5061091410532995660_n-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/319903157_454022766946122_5061091410532995660_n-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/319903157_454022766946122_5061091410532995660_n-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/319903157_454022766946122_5061091410532995660_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/319903157_454022766946122_5061091410532995660_n-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/319903157_454022766946122_5061091410532995660_n-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/319903157_454022766946122_5061091410532995660_n.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Hreinhv\u00edtt lamb<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Stolt okkar h\u00e9r \u00ed Uppspuna er a\u00f0 vinna me\u00f0 n\u00e1tt\u00farulega liti kindarinnar eins og \u00feeir koma af skepnunni. Hvert reyfi b\u00fd\u00f0ur upp \u00e1 n\u00fdjan t\u00f3n og vi\u00f0 vinnum me\u00f0 \u00fe\u00e1. Ef vi\u00f0 viljum gera st\u00e6rri lotur bl\u00f6ndum vi\u00f0 saman 3 - 5 reyfum og bl\u00f6ndum vel. Og \u00fea\u00f0 gerum vi\u00f0 l\u00edka me\u00f0 hv\u00edtu litina, \u00fev\u00ed hv\u00edt ull getur veri\u00f0 mismunandi hv\u00edt alveg eins og a\u00f0rir sau\u00f0alitir. H\u00fan getur veri\u00f0 hreinhv\u00edt eins og snj\u00f3r, en l\u00edka h\u00e1lf kremu\u00f0 og allt a\u00f0 \u00fev\u00ed beislitu\u00f0 stundum.\n\u00deannig a\u00f0 \u00fea\u00f0 er til hv\u00edtt og svo er til hv\u00edtt. :-)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c9g byrja a\u00f0 vinna me\u00f0 litina vi\u00f0 eldh\u00fasbor\u00f0i\u00f0 heima hj\u00e1 m\u00e9r, \u00feegar \u00e9g \u00e1kve\u00f0 hva\u00f0a hr\u00fat \u00e9g vil para me\u00f0 hva\u00f0a kind. \u00deannig get \u00e9g fundi\u00f0 \u00fat hva\u00f0a liti \u00e9g get m\u00f6gulega fengi\u00f0 n\u00e6sta vor og s\u00ed\u00f0an vonandi r\u00e6kta\u00f0 \u00e1fram veturinn \u00e1 eftir.<\/strong><strong>\u00c9g er svo heppin a\u00f0 vera me\u00f0 flesta m\u00f6gulega liti \u00ed hj\u00f6r\u00f0inni minni, \u00feannig a\u00f0 \u00e9g get leiki\u00f0 m\u00e9r a\u00f0eins me\u00f0 erf\u00f0afr\u00e6\u00f0ina \u00fear. Stundum hl\u00e6ja fj\u00f6lskyldume\u00f0limir m\u00ednir a\u00f0 m\u00e9r og \u00f6llu m\u00ednu skipulagi vi\u00f0 r\u00e6ktunina. En m\u00e9r finnst \u00feetta gaman.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13160\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13160\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13160 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/320063853_456773496465681_8324882350192897824_n-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/320063853_456773496465681_8324882350192897824_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/320063853_456773496465681_8324882350192897824_n-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/320063853_456773496465681_8324882350192897824_n-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/320063853_456773496465681_8324882350192897824_n-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/320063853_456773496465681_8324882350192897824_n-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/320063853_456773496465681_8324882350192897824_n-9x12.jpg 9w, https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/320063853_456773496465681_8324882350192897824_n.jpg 1536w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 225px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 225\/300;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong> Falleg hv\u00edt ull<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Hv\u00edtu kindurnar \u00ed hj\u00f6r\u00f0inni minni eru ekki allar eins hv\u00edtar. \u00c9g reyni a\u00f0 hafa fj\u00f6lbreytni \u00fear l\u00edka. Vi\u00f0 erum me\u00f0 hreinhv\u00edtar kindur en l\u00edka \u00feessar sem eru gulari og gefa kremlita\u00f0ra garn. Flestar eru \u00feannig.<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>I also have few that are a bit \u201cyellow\u201d in the face and that way I get a creamier colour, almost caramel sometimes.<br \/>\nAnd then it is the \u201cspotty-ones\u201d . They have small spots of black on their body, not so visible when they have not been shorn, but it is visible on their bodies a couple of days after shearing and it is also visible in the fleeces \u2013 making the yarn a tiny tone greyer than white.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13161\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13161\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13161 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/320096090_911186926536113_4026848982965551482_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/320096090_911186926536113_4026848982965551482_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/320096090_911186926536113_4026848982965551482_n-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/320096090_911186926536113_4026848982965551482_n-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/320096090_911186926536113_4026848982965551482_n-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/320096090_911186926536113_4026848982965551482_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/320096090_911186926536113_4026848982965551482_n-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/320096090_911186926536113_4026848982965551482_n-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/320096090_911186926536113_4026848982965551482_n.jpg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Krimp er frekar sjaldg\u00e6ft \u00ed \u00edslenskri ull en \u00fea\u00f0 er samt h\u00e6gt a\u00f0 finna sl\u00edkt.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>It is funny how the pure white is often softer than the normal white, and sometimes the yellow-faced sheep can have very nicely white wool with good crimp in it, but I always have to be careful not to get the hard yellow hair that we call \u201cillh\u00e6rur\u201d which are hard and stand out in the yarn not being soft and doesn\u2019t want to spin properly with the rest of the wool.<br \/>\nThe lambs wool is often very soft and the tog is a bit tucked into the thel so it doesn\u2019t separate a lot. I use the lambs wool for the d\u00eds yarn, which is the finest yarn we spin. Sometimes I blend it with adult wool, because the truth is, that pilling is more obvious on garments that are made with better quality wool (soft one). So if I mix adult wool with the lambs wool I sometimes get less of the pilling problem.<\/strong><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-12395 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/HvitirIMG_4713-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sock yarn in white\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/HvitirIMG_4713-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/HvitirIMG_4713-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/HvitirIMG_4713-600x601.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/HvitirIMG_4713-768x769.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/HvitirIMG_4713-12x12.jpg 12w, https:\/\/www.uppspuni.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/HvitirIMG_4713.jpg 1007w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/300;\" \/><\/strong><strong>It is also nice to know the age of your sheep when working with wool, because the lambs wool being so soft is not always the best to use for sock yarn. Then I want wool from the middle aged sheep \u2013 or\u00a0 little older than \u201cteenagers\u201d because there I get the long and strong and curly tog that is so durable in socks. And when the sheep turns old, the tog gets very loose and just blows off in the working process. Then I can make the thelyarn from that one.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>L\u00e6raullin er gr\u00f3fari en \u00e1 baki og s\u00ed\u00f0um, en stundum finnst kindunum okkar gott a\u00f0 kl\u00f3ra s\u00e9r utan \u00ed sandhr\u00fagu e\u00f0a steinum og \u00fe\u00e1 ver\u00f0ur ullin full af sandi, sem gerir alla vinnslu erfi\u00f0ari. Stundum er h\u00e6gt a\u00f0 hrista sandinn \u00far, en ef \u00fea\u00f0 er mj\u00f6g miki\u00f0 af honum og hann situr fastur \u00ed ullinni, \u00fe\u00e1 f\u00f6rum vi\u00f0 me\u00f0 reyfi\u00f0 \u00fat \u00e1 t\u00fan e\u00f0a \u00ed gr\u00e6nmetisgar\u00f0inn og setjum \u00ed kringum tr\u00e9 e\u00f0a a\u00f0rar pl\u00f6ntur til a\u00f0 halda fr\u00e1 \u00feeim illgresi e\u00f0a a\u00f0 \u00feeim yl og raka.<br \/>\nI just can\u2019t say it often enough. THE WOOL IS AMAZING!<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Icelandic farmers have been asked, for very many years, to breed white sheep. Why is that? Because the big industry wants to make the same colour every year for it\u2019s customers. The customer wants to be able to buy more brown next year to finish the sweater he started last year. 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