California Variegated Mutant or CVM
Critically
rare breed
(in 1990, less than 2,000 worldwide)
Staple:
7.5-15cm
Micron:
21-25
About California variegated mutant
sheep: CVM have
a fascinating history coming from 2 badger faced lambs appearing in a
Rommeldale flock in the 1960’s. Large scale mills avoided even a single fiber
of random colours showing up in fleece, resulting with culling of the coloured
lambs. Californian, Glen Eidman(passed away 1999) saw things differently and
bred these sheep focusing on the colour and fleece quality. With mills turning
away the coloured fleece, CVM’s were marketed towards hand spinners. CVM offer
near limitless colour and marking combinations (including dark grey, black,
brown, moorit and spotted, barred face badger pattern) in addition to lovely fleece
that not only [1]darken
but become finer with age.
My spinning experience: I had never spun CVM and was
immediately in love. It was an easy, enjoyable spin with the resulting yarn as
sproingy as heck…or lofty if you prefer. I ended up spinning this breed fleece
from 2 different sources and have not been disappointed at all. Californian Variegated
Mutant is hereby the first breed of this project to be added to my Top 10 of I-want-more-of-this-stuff list.
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