Natural Brown Bergschaf Tyrolean Wool for Felting

Composition: 100% wool
Fiber thickness: approx. 27-33 microns

Bergschaf wool is one of the most reliable working wools for felting. It felts quickly, holds its shape well and creates a strong, stable felt.

This makes it especially useful for firm items that need to withstand regular use, such as:

• felted shoes
• slippers
• bags
• rugs
• pet beds
• sauna hats
• firm accessories
• structural felt objects

It is also a great wool for felting courses and workshops. Because it felts easily and reacts well to shaping, it is forgiving for beginners and helps them achieve a solid result more quickly.

This wool is suitable for wet felting, needle felting, hand spinning and rug weaving projects. It is sold as carded wool batts, not yarn, but it can be hand-spun for further textile use.

This Bergschaf wool comes as carded wool batts, not combed tops. The fibers are open, airy and arranged in different directions, which helps them grip each other quickly during felting.

This structure makes the wool easy to felt, easy to shape and especially good for creating dense, durable felt.

Bergschaf wool comes from Alpine sheep traditionally raised in the Tyrol region, an Alpine area connected with Austria, Germany and Switzerland. These sheep are adapted to mountain conditions, spending summers on Alpine pastures and winters indoors.

Their wool is naturally strong, practical and valued more for durability and function than for fine softness.

This is natural, uncarbonized Bergschaf wool. It may contain traces of lanolin and small organic matter, such as tiny bits of hay or vegetable fibers. These are not defects — they are part of the natural character of the wool.

Because the wool is not bleached or heavily processed, it keeps many of the best qualities of natural wool: excellent felting ability, warmth, breathability, durability and a firm structure.

This wool is not the best choice for very delicate, thin or soft items such as fine scarves, light clothing or gentle next-to-skin accessories. It is a practical working wool — strong, reliable and ideal for solid felt.

Packaging and wool amount guide

For shipping, we compress the wool as much as possible to reduce parcel size, but we do not vacuum-pack it. After unpacking, the wool loosens up again and becomes airy and ready to use.

Packages up to 500 g are wrapped in paper and include a wool amount chart showing how much wool is needed to felt a pair of shoes in different sizes.

Larger quantities are packed without paper wrapping and come as bigger wool batts rather than many small portions. This is more practical for larger projects and workshop use.