Sheepskins
Yesterday, from the tannery I picked up 24 Saxon Merino sheepskins that I will bring to Union Square tomorrow. Plush & soft. Prices: $150 for medium sheepskins, $175 for large sheepskins.
We have sheepskins for sale now—at the stand and from the General Store—many of you have felt them and bought them. They are plush and very soft, and machine washable too. Wool insulates year-round warming you in Winter and cooling you in Summer by keeping a layer of air between you and what you touch. I like them for seat covers in my truck.
Last weekend we sold two small sheepskins for cats to stretch out and yawn on, and a larger one to bed down a snoring Mastiff. Gurus recommend meditation on white wool and mothers put sheepskins in cribs to calm babies. Some people like their first step in the morning to be onto a sheepskin making sure they get up on the right side of the bed.
Washing instructions from the tannery:
- Rinse with cool water.
- Wash with Liquid Ivory in warm water on gentle cycle for 3 minutes.
- Rinse/spin twice with warm water.
- Air dry, then brush or put in dryer to fluff with no heat; or
- Machine dry at 120 F.