The Easiest Way to Clean Fleece

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Cleaning animal fleece ready for processing has to be the most difficult and time-consuming part of fibre work. In fact, for many people, their first encounter with raw fleece, whether from sheep, llama, alpaca or goat, will be their last. Each type of fleece has its own peculiarities and cleaning requirements.

Today, we want to share with you a short video of what we believe is the easiest way of getting rid of the dust, dirt and debris from a raw llama or alpaca fleece. It also works well with raw sheep wool as well as mohair. However, it can break up the locks, so if you want the locks intact, don't tumble!