{"id":1048,"date":"2011-06-27T16:00:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2013-05-24T16:59:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T20:59:30","slug":"irish-wool-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/irish-wool-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Wool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally finished the small bag of fleece I bought in Ireland. It is from a Manx Loghon sheep which is a rare breed with four horns. The bag described it as &#8220;fine russet wool, some kemps, short staple&#8221;. This is the natural color when the darker and lighter bits were hand carded.  I spun it fairly tight allowing the lumps and bumps to remain and love the energy that resulted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/fiber\/wheel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/fiber\/wheel_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9 Spinning wool by Beth Emmott\" width=\"149\" height=\"200\" \/> <\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/fiber\/skein.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/fiber\/skein_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9 Finished Skein by Beth Emmott\" width=\"200\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Manx Loghon wool being spun and finished skein<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally finished the small bag of fleece I bought in Ireland. It is from a Manx Loghon sheep which is a rare breed with four horns. The bag described it as &#8220;fine russet wool, some kemps, short staple&#8221;. This is the natural color when the darker and lighter bits were hand carded. I spun&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/irish-wool-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,144],"tags":[379,382,169,198],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiber","category-ireland","tag-sheep","tag-ireland","tag-manx-loghon","tag-spinning-wool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2596,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/2596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}