The Fibre Garden : tan
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Fine Merino – Dune
100% fine 19-micron Merino wool. Beautiful and clean combed top.
Medium-soft tan, leaning slightly pink..
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.
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
Ramie Top – Earth
100% Ramie.
Medium-soft tan brown, a really good doll-hair colour.
PRODUCT of ITALY from Dyeing House Gallery
Regular Merino Prefelt – Sand – 1/2 meter
Price per 1/2 meter sheet: 120cm (47 inches) x 50cm (19.5 inches). Approximately 70g (2.46 oz)
Lovely soft camel-tan.
PRODUCT of ITALY, from Dyeing House Gallery
Silk Top, Muga
100% Muga silk.
This also goes by the name Assam silk, and it's from a worm native to India rather than further east. The colour is a glorious tan to almost caramel-golden-brown with a wonderful sheen. Apparently it is a myth that Muga silk cannot be dyed, though we have never tried to do so. Usually difficult to find, and always expensive.
PRODUCT of INDIA
Sugar Candy Merino – Boudoir
100% 19 micron Merino wool top.
Ribbons of ivory, tan, palest pink and soft caramel.
PRODUCT of ITALY
Tussah Silk Top – Dune
100% Tussah silk.
Medium-soft tan, a colour sometimes described as "camel".
PRODUCT of ITALY