Oh The Fiber – Racka Wool, what is this stuff?

look at the length of that fleece shared by wolmuts on flickr

 I was amazed at the length of the wool in some of these pictures. It seems that racka’s come in 2 varieties. There is one that has brown hair covering the legs and head, the fleece goes from dark brown to light brown and white. The other color is solid black with age the black individuals turn gray.The staple length is about 12 inches. It varies from 12-40 microns so from supersoft to quite coarse.

Isn’t this baby adorable? thanks to MaretH on flickr

 I found this fleece to be quite interesting. The long locks have some really nice luster. I found it to be scratchy,crunchy and crispy. Not for a next to skin application I think it would work as rug warp and weft it would be wonderful or for outerwear.

 Here are the pictures of my Racka fleece.

Unwashed racka fleece

unwashed lock

washed racka fleece

washed lock

This stuff dyes great!!!

dyed fleece

I couldn’t resist this last pic. I think some people really love their Rackas.

thanks to tillwe on flickr for sharing this

 Information from wikipedia and Oklahoma state university breeds of livestock.

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