Mohair number one

So Ice Yarns delivered me some mohair blend and some alpaca blend ... the white is mohair and the blue is alpaca. The white is 70% mohair and 30% wool and it is amazingly soft and fluffy. And it smells like goat!!! So strange to open something from across the world and sniff full Turkish goat. That sounds quite unpleasant, it wasn't. Just agricultural and vaguely foreign.

I put a plain wool warp on (the mohair was far too fluffy to think about using as a warp, the threads would never have separated properly) of mostly white but with a wide black border on each side. I'm not sure why - I thought plain would be too plain. It looks like old fashioned mourning note paper. It wove up very nicely but all the fluffiness has gone! Look at the wool on the stick shuttle, fluffy like a little baby goat, and then look at it once it's woven. It is very interesting, and slubby, and soft, but not at all fluffy.

This is the finished product. I'm going to have another go to try and get some fluffiness back - maybe a looser sett? This was 10 epi and it might be a bit closely woven. Even after washing in eucalyptus wool wash it still smells vaguely goaty. In a good way.