Day 8

British Wool Board
The Welsh wool is based on very coarse fibre wool. The farmers have the sheep shorn and place all the fleeces in an open top sack called an envelope. They are not skirted and the envelope is not pressed. The envelopes are picked by the Wool Board. The fleeces are weighed and the envelopes are emptied back at the store and sorted. The wool from one farmer who has 500 sheep may have up to 30 different lines.
The wool is then priced up and bulked in with all of the other clips, pressed in orange plastic bales and double dumped.