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Angora, Super-soft White
100% Angora rabbit. Very fine and clean combed top, a lovely creamy-white shade. With a micron count of 11 to 13 this is amazingly soft. Staple length 2.5 inches. From Ashland Bay.
Angora is from bunnies, and is considered to be a superb luxury fibre. It's usually blended with a fine wool or other fine fibre. By itself, angora is extremely warm, eight times warmer than wool. Felting properties are good.
PRODUCT of CHINA

Corn Fibre (Top)
100% Corn Fibre. Also known as Ingeo.
Extremely clean combed top. Pristine, true white in colour. Staple length is 4 to 5 inches.
One of the "new" man-made fibres, and apparently it stands up pretty well to any "green" claims about its manufacture. As a spinning or knitting fibre, it is soft and lustrous, breathes and absorbs moisture well, has good drape and warmth and is easy to care for. Corn is machine washable but should be air or tumble dried only. Do not iron!
Considered a plant or cellulose fibre but neither acid nor fibre reactive dyes will work on corn fibre. Natural dyers could try using techniques used on cotton, such as alum-tannin premordanting, or Aluminum acetate. We do not know yet how corn behaves in an indigo bath.
That being said, when blended with protein fibres, acid dyes will leave the corn alone during dyeing, which makes for some wonderful streaky or heathered effects, depending on how well the fibres are blended.

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