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Friends’ Folly Farm
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Fiber Processing & Consultation We are available for presentations to groups and consultation with individual small fiber producers regarding sales and marketing of their farms' unique fibers - sheep, alpacas, llamas, Angora rabbits, Angora, cashmere, and pygora goats. Presentations for groups include assessing best marketing for various grades of fiber, management practices for producing better quality fiber, and tools for estimating costs and returns of fiber products. Our specialty is mohair, we have been raising Angora goats for 24 years. We began as hand spinners and as our farm grew we added sheep. We found we had much more fiber than we could process by hand so we acquired a Patrick Green Cottage Industry Carder in 1992 and began small scale processing of roving and batts for ourselves and for other small farms and spinners. Finally, in 2000 we purchased equipment to be able to spin yarn. Friends' Folly Farm does custom fiber processing for small farms, spinners, and felters as mill time and schedules allow. Our services include washing, carding into roving or batts, and spinning into worsted, DK, and sport weight yarns. Our specialty is small runs - we have no minimums for roving (a minimum 1# charge), a 5 pound minimum for yarn and no set up charges. We do blending and have a number of blending fibers for sale for your special roving or yarn - wool, silk, mohair. We do process dyed fibers into roving and yarn 3 - 4 times a year. If you are interested in processing please contact us for our current pricing and to reserve time on our processing schedule.
Email: friendsfolly@roadrunner.com
Call: 207 632-3115
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