Fibres
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Fine Merino – Tomato Red
100% fine 19-micron Merino wool. Beautiful and clean combed top.
Wonderful and screaming-bright orange red.
PRODUCT of ITALY, from Dyeing House Gallery.
Fine Merino – Verbena
100% fine 19-micron Merino wool. Beautiful and clean combed top.
A bright medium Verbena or grape-juice purple, very much like the Theatre colourway the mill does on silk, ramie, hemp, flax, etc.
PRODUCT of ITALY, from Dyeing House Gallery.
Finn – White (Top)
Classification: MEDIUM WOOL
Combed top, very clean and a bright creamy-white. More formerly called Finnish Landrace or Finnsheep and indeed it originates in Finland. Finn has a fairly long staple as well as good crimp and is suitable for next-to-skin, midrange or outerwear uses
Micron count for Finn is 24 to 31 with a staple length of 3 to 6 inches. Felting properties are excellent.
Firestar Crazy Clown
100% trilobal Nylon
As garish and colourful as a circus clown, with streaks of bright yellow, red, and blue as well as green, orange and violet where the colours merge. We think this may be a vintage supply from the 70s.
PRODUCT of USA probably
Firestar Green Swirl
Streaks of turquoise, teal, gold and sapphire blue. From Ashland Bay.
Flax Top – Bleached
100% Flax (linen) fibre.
Very clean combed top in a fairly narrow sliver, bleached to a bright ivory white. Staple length is 5 to 6 inches.
This may be a good choice for those curious to try spinning flax for the first time. Our supplier suggests it can be either dry or wet-spun and no distaff is needed since it's already in a well-prepared form. It feels pretty soft for flax. Anybody up for the challenge?
The various dyed colourways we carry begin with bleached flax, since it provides a good white base that won't lend the brown or tan tones that natural flax would give. Since this is a plant or cellulose fibre dyers must use fibre reactive dyes. Natural dyers must resort to techniques used on cotton, such as alum-tannin premordanting, or Aluminum acetate. Flax strikes just fine in an indigo vat.
That being said, when blended with protein fibres, acid dyes will leave the flax alone during dyeing, which makes for some wonderful streaky or heathered effects, depending on how well the fibres are blended.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Flax Top – Chocolate
100% Flax (linen) fibre.
Rich dark-chocolate brown.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Flax Top – Cloud
100% Flax (linen) fibre.
Absolutely fantastic, shimmering soft grey.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Flax Top – Cyclamen
100% Flax (linen) fibre.
Clear, bright cyclamen pink.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Flax Top – Darkness
100% Flax (linen) fibre.
Deep, true black.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Flax Top – Dream
100% Flax (linen) fibre.
Medium sapphire blue.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Flax Top – Fire
100% Flax (linen) fibre.
Rich and deep red that doesn't lean towards orange.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Flax Top – Florence
100% Flax (linen) fibre.
Deep and gorgeous royal blue-purple.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Flax Top – Natural Brown
100% Flax
Natural coloured (not bleached) flax top which we get from Italy but it probably originates somewhere in Eastern Europe. Staple length about 5 to 6 inches, and a nice fine-quality fibre. This is the same flax we offer as dyed colourways, before it's been bleached and then dyed.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Flax Top – Olive
100% Flax (linen) fibre.
Lovely medium-dark olive green.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Flax Top – Onion
100% Flax (linen) fibre.
An interesting muted purple, very much like the colour of red onion skins.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Flax Top – Paint Box
100% Flax (linen) fibre.
Assorted colours, including Natural Brown or Bleached.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Flax Top – Rust
100% Flax (linen) fibre.
Rich and glowing rusty orange-brown.
PRODUCT of ITALY