Chris Hogg wrote in
:

On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:40:31 GMT, Baz wrote:


My wife has in the past done her own spinning and knitting. She would
buy a whole unwashed fleece from a local shall-holder with a few
rare-breed sheep when they are shorn. A certain proportion of the
fleece is unuseable, as being too matted or filthy, particularly the
bits around the sheep's rear end, and has to be discarded. I imagine
the same sort of thing happens with woollen mills. She knows it as
breech wool, but shoddy is inferior wool and the term would probably
be equally applicable.


Understood, Sort of.
Thanks Chris.

Baz