Still woolgathering

It has been a few days since my previous posting about washing wool. Turns out it takes two days to dry the stuff (at least in the autumn, when air is heavy and not very warm)

Also, dish soap won the round, no contest. It needed less rinsing and left no residue, so wool was easier to fluff and thus dried faster. I washed some more the next day, and they are dry now, but those wools that used pine soap and marseille soap are still damp at places.

Here you see the damp, still a bit soapy (after 5 rinsings) wool

And here´s some better dried wool from the first patch.

This is the second patch. All dry and ready to be carded or combed.

I don´t have wool combs (yet) so I´m using cards (again courtesy of my late granny) to prepare the wool for spinning. As I´m a novice in this preparing stuff, the spinning will be done with drop spindle. 

Here´s some carded and prepared wool and my spindles ready for work. The smaller, top heavy one will do the job here.

Let´s see what becomes of this. Carded wool will result in fluffier yarn, so I think I can´t use it as a warp in my precious loom.

To be continued...

P.S. I´m even more sure that the wool is from my old friend the young alpha ram. It seems to be all one fleece with big white splotch in the middle. Just like he used to have.