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We are so fortunate to have a fibre studio at Double J & D Acres. A special thanks to Herb Irwin for helping us turn an old shed into a beautiful fibre studio where we spend much of our time dying, carding and spinning our yarns. It is so nice to have a space specially designed to create Curly horse art in. |
One of the best things about the Curly horse is it's diversity. You will find that they come in a variety of sizes, disciplines, colour and coat types. This is what makes them so unique. Many people don't realize that Curlies come in almost any type of coat; tight (Brillo-pad) curly coat, tight ringlet curly coat, soft wavy curly coat, bunny soft swirly coat, and completely straight coat. At Double J & D Acres we have 8 Curlies and each of them have a different coat type than the other. Even though the coats have different curl expression all of our coat types have hypoallergenic qualities. Below are the different coats you will see at our acreage. See our video on Curly coats |
The yarn that we make at Double J & D Acres comes from our own Curly horse and pony fibre which is blended with llama, alpaca, wool and mohair and carded into batts and spun on our wheel. Click here to see how it's done www.youtube.com/watch |
We hand dye several types of lambs wool to spin with our horse fibre to create a unique Curly horse fibre yarn in a plethora of colours. We dye Merino, Blue Face Leicester and Corridale wool and then braid the dyed fibres to spin and sell. Fibre Sales Watch our dying video... www.youtube.com/watch |
After we dye our wool we spin it into a one ply yarn which is then spun together with our one ply horse yarn. It then becomes a beautiful, very unique, 2ply yarn. Our yarn is washed, hung to dry and then used to make fibre arts like our Curly ponies, hats and purses or it's package up into skeins to sell. Fibre Sales Spinning video... www.youtube.com/watch |
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