The Fibre Garden : Fibres
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Fibres
Cotton Top – Caipirinha
100% Egyptian Cotton.
Lovely rich lime green with avocado leanings. Named for Brazil's national cocktail, a sweetened rum and lime concoction. Staple length is 1 to 1.5 inches, and reportedly easy to spin.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Cotton Top – Cyclamen
100% Cotton.
True to name, this is a medium cyclamen pink.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Cotton Top – Darkness
100% Cotton.
Absolutely terrific pitch black.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Cotton Top – Dream
100% Cotton.
Medium-dark blue that leans just slightly towards violet.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Cotton Top – Ireland
100% Cotton.
Very difficult to photograph because of the reflection! Ireland is stunning on anything the mill dyes it on, and always comes out a rich medium-dark teal.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Cotton Top – Lavender
100% Cotton.
A beautiful medium mauve purple. My sister had a bridesmaid dress exactly this colour in 1970.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Cotton Top – Olive
100% Cotton.
A fairly dramatic and punchy olive-green, not the usual sombre tone.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Cotton Top – Paint Box
100% Cotton.<p>A mixture of some or all of our various colours of Egyptian cotton, including white.<p>PRODUCT of ITALY
Cotton Top – Passion
100% Egyptian Cotton.
A really punchy and rich red with ever-so-slight scarlet leanings. Not cerise like in the photo. Staple length is 1 to 1.5 inches, and reportedly easy to spin.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Cotton Top – Rust
100% Cotton.
On cotton this colourway seems to be illuminated from within. A glowing rusty orange-brown or brick shade.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Cotton Top – Saffron
100% Cotton.
Glowing amber-gold.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Cotton Top – Soft Fruit
100% Egyptian Cotton.
One of the nicest colours the mill in Italy does, this is rich plum-burgundy. Staple length is 1 to 1.5 inches, and reportedly easy to spin.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Cotton Top – Sun
100% Cotton.
Not quite a primary or crayon yellow. This leans just slightly towards bright acid yellow.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Cotton Top – Sunrise
100% Cotton.
A lovely soft powder blue that goes with nearly anything.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Cotton Top – Theatre
100% Cotton.
Stunning grape-juice purple.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Cotton Top – White Egyptian
100% Cotton.
Natural creamy-white Egyptian cotton, with a generous staple length of 1 to 1.5 inches. Apparently easy to spin. Combed top, super clean.
PRODUCT of EGYPT
Cultivated Silk Cocoons, Degummed
Silk cocoons come as natural (usually with a dead worm inside), which are sort of firm and egg-shaped, or degummed, which have had the seracin (i.e. silk worm spit/glue) removed. Most common are Bombyx (Cultivated, Mulberry) cocoons, but sometimes other kinds of silk are available as well, though we have yet to locate a source.
Cocoons are adored by makers of Novelty/Art yarn, by felters, and sometimes by spinners.
Degummed Bombyx or Mulberry/Cultivated silk cocoons. These can be used for spinning directly, as a textural component in needle or Nuno felting, in paper making or added for texture to novelty yarns. They dye up just like regular silk top or roving, using either acid or fibre reactive dyes.
PRODUCT of CHINA