Can't remeber the name of the thread, but a couple of months ago we went through the caluculations; the answer is some where between one and two and a half sheep per kilt, not the other way around. Some one with more shearchfu will probably come up with it.

The calcualtions have to do with yeild per fleece, yeild for scrubbed wool to yarn/thread; yarn and thread count to weave yeild, depending on the width of the yardage. We discounted the shrinkage due to dye pot, but over all the calculations indicated it takes about a full fleece to two and a half fleece to create enough material for a 16 oz 8 yard kilt.

Why the variance? Size of the sheep! Cheers!ith: