Iceland sends Container of Winter Clothing to Hull

dopester

Not that I'm an expert on these kinds of things - I didn't even know Iceland exported wool - but wool seems an important-ish export to them.

Checking ebay, Icelandic wool stuff like jumpers and beanie hats with ear protection and rugs seem to be listed at a premium price.

An Introduction to Icelandic Wool

Icelandic sheep is a unique breed.

For over a thousand years, total isolation and absence of contact with other breeds have protected the purity of the strain. Icelandic fleeces are among the rarest in the world, grown only in the high mountains. The rugged sheep brought over by the Vikings in the year 874 A.D. have maintained the same gene pool, making them truly one of the purest breeds in the western world.

The average adult fleece weights five to seven pounds, with a 29% shrink. The locks range from eight to ten inches from a seven month fleece (Fall shorn) to eighteen inches if left to grow for one year. Because eighteen inch fiber would be difficult to deal with, most sheep are sheared twice a year.

Icelandic sheep have the widest color range of any breed, including many shades of white, gray and black, and a variety of browns. Many fleeces have multiple colors, or inner and outer coats of different colors.

Historically Icelandic fiber was separated for most uses. The tog was made into twine, rope and embroidery thread. It was woven into canvas sails, saddle blankets, and tapestries. Fine tog was used like mohair and knitted into lacy shawls, used for embroidery work and made into durable items like aprons. Today it is regarded as a perfect fiber for woven rugs. Thel was used for fine, soft, next-to-the-skin garments, including baby clothes, fine worked mittens, and underwear. The two coats when spun together were used for fisherman's sweaters, socks, and caps.

mardatha

Icelandic and Norwegian wool are the best in the world.

john.xs

theyre just getting rid of their surplus s++t! surely weve enough sheep of our own. more landfill problems for us! lets thank them for their generosity and send them a trawler full of fish from hull to feed their poor now theyre bankrupt.

Pssst

What a joke. There will be tons of garments left rotting in that container for who will collect and distribute them and most of all,who will take them?

This talk of pensioners piling up on every street corner,stricken by a light frost in a typical British Winter is laughable and is purely Government spin and spin from certain agencies who have vested interests.

I know,why not distribute them to the workers of this country?

I'll happily wear some nice wollens as i go out to work,night and day,all weathers and pay my taxes to keep this miserable nation of parasites afloat.

They sit warming their backsides whilst me and others are working and they plead poverty? I'm not talking about retired old dears mind you. I'm talking about the terminally useless,the feral,the f&ckless and the baby breeders.

Pipkin

What a kind gesture!

Where was ours during their recent troubles?!