Wool types

Ratings are on a scale from 1-10.  The entries in boldface are those which I have spun at least once.  The entries in italic are those which I have in my stash but haven’t spun yet.

Clearly, there are quite a few for which I do not have any data other than the name and type.  If you have input, I’d love to update my sheet with it.  I would also like any descriptions or notes that you might have, because I’d like to put together a fact sheet for as many of these wools as possible, and I’ll link to those fact sheets from this main page.

Breed Type Softness Elasticity and Loft Staple Length Luster Felting Properties
Africana Hair
Barbados Hair
Barbados Blackbelly Hair
Beulah Speckled Face Down 4 8 6 3 NA
Black Welsh Mountain Down 2 7 4 4 3
Blackhead Persian Hair
Bleu du Maine Fine
Blue-faced Leicester (BFL) Long/X-bred 7 5 6 6 5
Bond Fine 7 7 7 6 8
Border Leicester Long/X-bred 3 3 8 8 7
Borderdale Long/X-bred 6 6 6 6 7
Boreray Primitive/Feral
Brazilian Somali Hair
British Milk Sheep Down 4 8 7 NA NA
California Red Long/X-bred
Carpetmaster Long/X-bred 1 1 10 1 1
Castlemilk Moorit (aka Moorit Shetland) Primitive/Xbred
Cheviot Down 4 7 6 3 2
Clun Forest Down 6 10 4 2 2
Colbred Down 3 7 7 3 NA
Columbia Fine/X-bred 7 8 6 4 7
Comeback Fine 8 8 6 4 9
Coopworth Long/X-bred 4 4 7 8 6
Cormo Fine 8 8 6 4 9
Corriedale Fine/X-bred 7 6 6 6 8
Cotswold Long/X-bred 3 3 10 9 4
CVM Fine 8 8 5 4 7
Dalesbred Double-coat
Damara Hair
Dartmoor Long/X-bred 2 2 8 8 4
Debouillet Fine 10 8 6 4 10
Derbyshire Gritstone Down 4 8 5 3 2
Devon and Cornwall Long/X-bred 2 2 10 8 4
Devon Closewool Down 3 7 6 3 NA
Dormer Fine 8 8 5 4 8
Dorper Hair
Dorset Down 6 10 2 2 2
Dorset Horn and Poll (xref Poll Dorset) Down 4 9 5 3 2
Drysdale Long/X-bred 1 1 10 1 2
East Friesian Down?
Elliotdale Long/X-bred 1 1 10 1 2
English Leicester (aka Dishley L, Bakewell L, Leicester Longwool) Long/X-bred 3 2 10 9 5
Escorial Fine
Exmoor Horn Down 4 7 6 3 NA
Falkland Fine 8 8 6 5 8
Finnish Landrace (aka Finnsheep, Finn) Long/X-bred 7 6 6 7 7
Gotland (Gute) Long/X-bred 6 4 5 7 8
Gromark Long/X-bred 6 5 6 6 7
Hampshire Down 5 10 2 2 2
Hebridean (aka Saint Kilda) Primitive/Feral
Herdwick Double-coat
Hill Radnor Down 4 7 7 3 NA
Icelandic Double-coat
Jacob Other 3 6 7 6 NA
Karakul Double-coat
Katahdin Hair
Kerry Hill Down 5 8 5 3 NA
Lincoln Long/X-bred 2 2 10 10 5
Llanwenog Down 4 8 4 2 NA
Lleyn Down 5 8 6 3 NA
Lonk Down 3 8 7 3 NA
Manx Loughtan Primitive/Feral
Masai Hair
Masham Long/X-bred 5 4 10 7 5
Merino Fine 10 8 5 5 10
Montadale Down/X-bred 6 7 6 5 4
Morada Nova Hair
Mouflon Primitive
Mule Long/X-bred 6 5 9 7 5
Navajo Churro Double-coat
Norfolk Horn Down 5 9 5 NA NA
North Ronaldsay (aka Red Orkney) Primitive/Feral
NZ Halfbred Fine 7 7 6 6 8
Oxford Down 4 10 6 3 3
Panama Fine/X-bred 7 8 6 4 7
Pelibüey Hair
Perendale Long/X-bred 5 7 7 5 5
Persian Blackhead Hair
Poll Dorset (xref Dorset Horn and Poll) Down
Polwarth Fine 8 8 6 5 8
Polypay Fine 7 8 5 4 8
Portland Down 4 7 3 NA NA
Rabo Largo Hair
Rambouillet Fine 8 8 5 4 9
Romanov Double-coat
Romeldale Fine/X-bred 8 8 6 4 7
Romney Long/X-bred 5 6 7 7 7
Rough Fell Double-coat
Roux du Valais Long
Ryeland Down 6 8 5 3 3
Sahel-type Hair
Salish Primitive
Santa Cruz Fine
Santa Inês Hair
Scottish Blackface Double-coat
Shetland Down 6 7 5 4 5
Shropshire Down 5 10 5 2 2
Soay Primitive/Feral
Somali Hair
South Dorset Down 6 10 2 2 2
South Hampshire Down 6 10 2 2 2
South Suffolk Down 6 10 2 2 2
South Wales Mountain Down 2 7 2 3 NA
Southdown Down 6 10 2 2 2
Spelsau Double-coat
St. Croix (aka Virgin Island White) Hair
Suffolk Down 5 10 2 2 2
Swaledale Double-coat
Swiss White Alp(ine) Other (Meat)
Targhee Fine/X-bred 8 8 6 4 8
Teeswater Long/X-bred 5 4 10 10 4
Texel Long/X-bred 6 6 6 5 5
Touabire Hair
Tukidale Long/X-bred 1 1 10 1 2
Tunis Down 6 7 6 3 4
Uda Hair
Welsh Hill Speckled Down 4 7 6 NA NA
Welsh Mountain Down 2 6 5 3 NA
Welsh Mountain Badger Down 3 7 5 3 3
Wensleydale Long/X-bred 5 4 10 10 4
West African Hair
West African Dwarf Hair
Whitefaced Woodland Down 4 7 7 NA NA
Wiltshire Horn Hair
Zenith Fine 8 8 6 4 8