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Hemp Top – Ireland
$10.00 – $40.86
100% Hemp fibre.
Medium-dark teal. Staple length is 4 to 4.5 inches.
PRODUCT of ITALY
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Merino/Silk – Avocado
NEW August 2019. 80% Merino wool (22-micron) / 20% Mulberry silk from Ashford of New Zealand.
Combed top/sliver. Ribbons of rich avocado green, dark olive and rust, with streaks of silvery white silk.
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Hemp Top – Sage
100% Hemp fibre.
Soft sage green, leaning slightly to golden-tan.
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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.
PRODUCT of CHINA
Merino/Silk – Salvia
80% Merino wool (22-micron) / 20% Mulberry silk from Ashford of New Zealand.
Combed top/sliver. A study in blues and greens, with streaks of teal, turquoise, bright blue, avocado, indigo and silvery white.
PRODUCT of NEW ZEALAND
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