Just don't understand the high price...

[Jock Scot]

Well it most certainly is not the cost of the fleece! I cannot speak with any authority on the costs of weaving and tayloring,but I used to have a flock of 5000 sheep and I am delighted to be rid of them!About 15 years ago we broke even between the cost of shearing and the value of the fleece and its been getting worse ever since.About 10 years ago the fleece was worth so little that although the fleeces were paid for no one bothered to collect them.The sheep enterprise ceased from then on.My friends, who still have sheep,tell me its even worse now. Out of interest the hill looks much better without the sheep knawing away at everything,the heather is more healthy and far more widespread and the wildlife is far more proliffic.The downside to that is, we had 10 sheepherds then, now we have none.