Our Facebook page is doing wonderfully in garnering new followers! https://www.facebook.com/share/18LbcLijcF/
We are gaining attention while we raise the funds to secure the equipment to start up. I will answer the question in the title, but first, please click here to purchase gift certificates, the funds from which go straight to the equipment fund. Use them or gift them!
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https://hearthside-wool-and-alpaca-llc.myshopify.com/discount/FOUNDERS100?redirect=%2Fproducts%2Ffounders-gift-certificate
Gift certificates will be able to be used to purchase wool processing services once the mill is up and running.Ā Once we have products like roving, yarn, created pieces, etc. for sale it can be used for goods, as well.
For those who are curious but have no idea, a fiber mill is a place where farmers who raise fiber animals like sheep, alpaca, cashmere goats, angora rabbits, etc., can send their fiber to be turned into roving (a product used by handspinners and felters) or yarn.
The wool or other fiber is cleaned (called "scouring"), dried, picked (like a big fluff-up) and carded. Carding machines (also available in hand-held and hand-crank styles) align the fibers and work them together until a loooong strip of wool remains. This strip of wool can then be hand-spun by folks who do that, or then be further stretched and spun into yarn.
The process is quite a bit more complex than that, but for those who no nothing about the process, those are the basics. Wool is amazing, and is grossly under-utilized in modern markets in favor of toxic (but cheap) plastics. I would like to speak more on this in upcoming posts.
Please keep sharing posts and especially this link to gift certificates!
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https://hearthside-wool-and-alpaca-llc.myshopify.com/discount/FOUNDERS100?redirect=%2Fproducts%2Ffounders-gift-certificate
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