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Your welcome!  Also, keep in mind, that the premium mohair comes from colored angora goats.  That is how you keep the mohair from getting a brassy or green tint.  Colored mohair has pigment running through the shaft.  When you cut the mohair, you do not have a white or strange dye colored core in the hair shaft.  When you dye colored mohair you can keep the highlights and low lights due to the pigmentation layers already there.  When you dye white mohair you get the flat color.  Now, another explanation of why the premium colored mohair is so much more expensive.  For thousands of years angora breeders have selected for white goats.  Any goat born with any color was killed.  15 - 20 years ago several breeders in the country wanted the natural colored mohair without having to dye it.  They put the word out that they would take any unwanted colored kids born.  They also bred the angoras to other breeds to bring the color back in and then worked on suceeding generations to get the mohair back to a fine quality after the introduction of other breeds.  Since goats have kids just once a year, and not until they are 1 1/2 years old, there are approximately at the the most 15 generations or so of colored angora goats, with the earliest generations not being purebred.  There are not a lot of colored angoras as compared to the huge number of white angoras.  Supply and demand.  A good doll hair quality colored angora goat will cost $400 to $600, with the darker the mohair the higher the cost.  Compare that to a high quality white angora goat that can be bought for $100.  In June I am buying a brown "grandma" goat for $600 and driving half way across the country to get her - ouch, drives up the cost again - but she has the potential when bred to my brown buck to get the elusive natural dark brown, which is, by the way, elusive and which challenges me to breed for dark brown.  I have searched high and low for just the right genetics, kids next spring will tell me if it worked.  Now, to shrink the pool of available colored mohair, many people who breed the colored angoras do so for their own use of the mohair and sell only the extra.  Fortunately for dollhair processers, I have been busy with 6 human kids and homeschooling and haven't had time to use my own mohair   Last winter was a hard winter across the country.  The fleeces sheared in the spring may or may not reflect that, depends on how well the goats were fed and kept.  They can stand the cold when fed enough feed for calories and hay to keep them warm from the inside out.  It is the cold rains and winds that are hard on a goat.  Those in a more moderate climate had a tough winter sneak up on them and my or may not have had adequate shelter.  You are always going to have more VM in a winter fleece than a summer fleece and your summer fleeces are always nicer than the fleeces that grew through the winter.  If you think you can avoid that scenario by moving down south to a warmer climate, you have just now entered the sand bur zone.  So many things for a goat owner to manage besides just feeding the critters!!  If you get a batch of mohair that is just wonderful, remember all that took for that animal and it's owner to produce that luxurious lock!!