We offer NAVAJO CHURRO Roving from the Spear S Sheep and Cattle Company in Lander Wyoming.  After shearing, it is carefully skirted ( all the really dirty wool is pulled off) and usually sent to a mill in Michigan to be washed and carded.  When it returns, it is identified by color and weighed, and is then ready to be purchased.  Each color comes from a different sheep, and though colors my appear the same, texture of the wool may be different from sheep to sheep.  Please e-mail us at spinayarn@dteworld.com for information on availability of colors and costs.

 Sheep can change texture of their wool from year to year because of ageing and from feed.  A lamb fleece is always the softest, and as the sheep ages, the fleece usually becomes a

little bit coarser.

A colored sheep can also have color changes to it's fleece as it ages.  Some colors typically fade or change from black to

silver, or brown to tan as they age.

There is no guarantee that the color and type of fleece you get off a colored sheep this year will be the same as it was last year.

A ball of roving is usually from

13 to 16 ounces.

Price per ounce depends on

fleece type and color.

Here is a list of the colors that the Spear S Sheep and Cattle Co. normally have on hand.

call 307-332-5645

IVORY - warm white with no colored hairs

SHELL - ivory with light tan hairs

SAND - Tan with hairs

ADOBE - hot cocoa with white and dark hairs

SOMBRA - neither grey nor tan, dust in the sunshine

AGA POPEI - Shoshone for light red\apricot brown

RED MESA - redish brown

MESA - milk chocolate, sometimes with dark brown hairs

JASPERED MESA - dark brown with white hairs, tweed-like

RIO GRANDE - dark chocolate, sometimes with red hairs

STORM - dark grey with white hairs

BLUE DILUTE - bluish grey steel

SILVER - pale grey with white and/or dark hairs

ICE WHITE - white with grey hairs

JET - the blackest of browns

The colors that I MAY have in the shop right now are:

these pictures are NOT real good representatives

of the colors of the roving, see descriptions of colors at upper right.

 JASPERED JET     JASPERED MESA        SOMBRA

   DARK MESA              ADOBE            DARK STORM

  LIGHT SHELL             IVORY                  STORM

We also have other types of ROVING

smaller bags (2 ounces +) of mohair,

dyed and natural,

silk

roving dyed with CUSHING dyes

some angora and angora mixed with wool,

and wool\mohair mix

We also carry some PIN DRAFTED

rambouillete\mohair mix

Please e-mail for more information at

spinayarn@dteworld.com

     When you buy NAVAJO CHURRO roving, you aren't just buying any generic wool. You are buyingthe heritage of the oldest sheep breed in the Americas.

     Your purchase helps insure the future of this now rare sheep known for their small size that impacts the land less; for their enduring lustrous wool, and lastly, these sheep are known as the cadillac of lamb meat for its tender mild flavor.

     Our NAVAJO CHURRO sheep flock is pasture raised in the famous Red Canyon area in the southern end of the beautiful Wind River Mountains of Wyoming.