When I was in the Faeroes some years ago, I brought back wool for family members who knit. The only wool sold was natural undyed wool (the Faeroese didn't shear their sheep -- they simply combed the loose wool and sold that). It was available in only the four NATURAL colours of the sheep raised there -- black, white, grey, and brown.

Erek


--- Fred and Grace Hatton <hatton@...> wrote:
Icelandic sheep today in the USA exist in a variety of colors including
black. We raise sheep from Finland that have many of the same
characteristics. The further back in time you go with sheep the more
color there would be in the wool. Humans have selected white sheep
because white takes dyes well. Nonetheless the genetics for black
(recessive in all but about a dozen breeds of sheep worldwide) are there
and were there all along. I think you have to assume that there would
have been black sheep as well as reddish brown, several shades of grey
and tan.
Grace

--

Fred & Grace Hatton
Hawley, Pa.



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