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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

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 – Soft Fruit
100% Flax (linen) fibre.
Rich plum-wine, almost a bright burgundy. A solid tone, despite our bad photo. Staple length is about 4 inches.
PRODUCT of ITALY

Merino/Silk – Juniper
80% Merino wool (22-micron) / 20% Mulberry silk from Ashford of New Zealand.
Combed top/sliver. We carried this years ago and just re-introduced it. Lovely ribbons of violet and deep purple with a touch of blue, and streaky white silk..
PRODUCT of NEW ZEALAND

Merino/Silk – Storm
80% Merino wool (22-micron) / 20% Mulberry silk from Ashford of New Zealand.
Combed top/sliver. One of our streakier blends, this features stripes of beet purple-red, rose, charcoeal, black and silvery white.
PRODUCT of NEW ZEALAND

Ramie Top – Onion
100% Ramie.
A funny but pleasing tone, almost exactly that purply-red shade of red onion skins.
PRODUCT of ITALY

Sari Silk Fibre – Warm Tones
Shredded sari silk fibre, in a myriad of warm colours colours that may include some or all of magenta, yellow, red, orange, copper, plum, gold, wine, pink, orange and possibly a few threads of green, blue or other tones. This is shredded from leftover scraps and mill ends of fabric used to make saris. Our new supply is very clean and for the most part free of unshredded bits and debris. Fibres are in a tangle, essentially, but we try to get a good mix in each bag.
What to do with it? We've sometimes cut it into shorter lengths and carded it into spinning/felting batts; the key is to cut the silk to about the same length as the staple of the fibre it's being blended with. On the drum carder we find it behaves best when layed on the intake tray with the wool fibre on top, which helps to keep the silk off of the licker-in drum.
Felters love to use these fibres for embellishment in wet, Nuno and needle felting projects. Apparently it's a very cool add-in for paper makers, particularly those doing silk paper. Should also be grand for silk fusion and a myriad of other crafts, and even fly fishermen love this stuff!
PRODUCT of INDIA

Super Streaker Merino – Grapes
100% 19 micron Merino wool top.
Ribbons of bright magenta-plum, grape purple and deep midnight purple.
PRODUCT of ITALY

Tussah Silk Top – Soft Fruit
100% Tussah silk.
Deep and rich burgundy red, sort of a raspberry plum.
$16.00 – $65.38 $12.00 – $49.04