dyed roving and top
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Fine Merino – Royal
100% fine 19-micron Merino wool. Beautiful and clean combed top.
Medium-dark intense blue-violet.
PRODUCT of ITALY, from Dyeing House Gallery.
Fine Merino – Rust
100% fine 19-micron Merino wool. Beautiful and clean combed top.
Excellent rusty red-orange-brown tone.
PRODUCT of ITALY, from Dyeing House Gallery.
Fine Merino – Sand
100% fine 19-micron Merino wool. Beautiful and clean combed top.
Lovely soft camel-tan.
PRODUCT of ITALY, from Dyeing House Gallery.
Fine Merino – Shocking
100% fine 19-micron Merino wool. Beautiful and clean combed top.
Screaming electric pink.
PRODUCT of ITALY, from Dyeing House Gallery.
Fine Merino – Sky Blue
100% fine 19-micron Merino wool. Beautiful and clean combed top.
A cool medium blue.
PRODUCT of ITALY, from Dyeing House Gallery.
Fine Merino – Soft Fruit
100% fine 19-micron Merino wool. Beautiful and clean combed top.
A rich burgundy-red, brighter and cheerier than Wine Red. Reminds us of crushed blackberries.
PRODUCT of ITALY, from Dyeing House Gallery.
Fine Merino – Sunflower
100% fine 19-micron Merino wool. Beautiful and clean combed top.
Bright and clear true yellow.
PRODUCT of ITALY, from Dyeing House Gallery.
Fine Merino – Sunrise
100% fine 19-micron Merino wool. Beautiful and clean combed top.
Useful and beautiful medium-soft blue.
PRODUCT of ITALY, from Dyeing House Gallery.
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.
Hemp – Bleached (Top)
100% Hemp.
This is beautiful stuff, the finest hemp we have ever seen and a local lady with a lot of experience spinning hemp tried it and agrees! If you want to dye your hemp fibre, this bleached version will give you nice, clear and bright colours.
Very clean combed top, bleached to an off-white. Staple length is 6 to 7 inches. Hemp is a bast (stem) fibre from a very tall plant, essentially a strain of marijuana developed for fibre instead of other uses. Spun in a manner much like flax, the two also share the attribute of being harsh at first and just getting better and better over time with wear and laundering. It can be spun all by itself or blended with wool and other fibres. This has a light characteristic hemp scent but it's not overwhelming and should not be offensive to the nose during spinning.
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. Hemp also works well in an indigo vat.
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Hemp – Natural Brown (Top)
100% Hemp.
This is beautiful stuff, the finest hemp we have ever seen and a local lady with a lot of experience spinning hemp tried it and agrees!
Very clean combed top, in a natural tan colour. Staple length is 6 to 7 inches. Hemp is a bast (stem) fibre from a very tall plant, essentially a strain of marijuana developed for fibre instead of other uses. Spun in a manner much like flax, the two also share the attribute of being harsh at first and just getting better and better over time with wear and laundering. It can be spun all by itself or blended with wool and other fibres. This has a light characteristic hemp scent but it's not overwhelming and should not be offensive to the nose during spinning.
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. Hemp also works well in an indigo vat.
PRODUCT of CHINA
Hemp Top – Chocolate
100% Hemp fibre.
Rich dark-chocolate brown.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Hemp Top – Cinnamon
100% Hemp fibre.
Brighter than Rust, and more of a brassy orangy-brown, like a cinnamon stick.
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Hemp Top – Dream
100% Hemp fibre.
Good clear medium sapphire blue. Staple length is 4 to 4.5 inches.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Hemp Top – Fire
100% Hemp fibre.
A great solid red that's tricky to photograph because of the reflection. It leans to the blue-violet side, not the orange-scarlet.
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Hemp Top – Frog
100% Hemp fibre.
An oddly pleasing soft pastel tone that's sort of mint green with a bit of turquoise. We've never seen a frog this colour, have you?
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Hemp Top – Ireland
100% Hemp fibre.
Medium-dark teal. Staple length is 4 to 4.5 inches.
PRODUCT of ITALY