Fibres – Page 7 – The Fibre Garden

Cotton Top – Lavender

100% Cotton. A beautiful medium mauve purple. My sister had a bridesmaid dress exactly this colour in 1970. PRODUCT of ITALY

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Cotton Top – Olive

100% Cotton. A fairly dramatic and punchy olive-green, not the usual sombre tone. PRODUCT of ITALY

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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

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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

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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

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Cotton Top – Saffron

100% Cotton. Glowing amber-gold. PRODUCT of ITALY

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Cotton Top – Sage

100% Cotton. Soft sage green. PRODUCT of ITALY

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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

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Cotton Top – Sun

100% Cotton. Not quite a primary or crayon yellow. This leans just slightly towards bright acid yellow. PRODUCT of ITALY

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Cotton Top – Sunrise

100% Cotton. A lovely soft powder blue that goes with nearly anything. PRODUCT of ITALY

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Cotton Top – Theatre

100% Cotton. Stunning grape-juice purple. PRODUCT of ITALY

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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

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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

$4.50 – $9.00 Select options

Falkland (Top)

Classification: MEDIUM WOOL Combed top, very clean. Falkland is similar to Corriedale in character, creamy white in colour with a soft hand. Not always considered a true breed, but more of a crossbreed that has developed on the Falkland Islands due to isolation over many years. Suitable for midrange, outerwear and non-garment uses. Micron count for Falkland is 26 to 34 with a staple length of 4 to 5 inches. We can't find a listing for felting properties but it's probably good.

$6.00 – $46.30 Select options