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Hemp Top – Saffron
$10.00 – $40.86
100% Hemp fibre.
An absolutely great rich gold, leaning towards the brassy side. Staple length is 4 to 4.5 inches.
PRODUCT of ITALY
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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.
PRODUCT of ITALY
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
Fine Merino – Indian Yellow
100% fine 19-micron Merino wool. Beautiful and clean combed top.
One of the "classic" colours from ancient times. A useful golden yellow, almost like the Cheesecake we carry in other lines. We looked it up, and Oxford said "a golden yellow originally obtained from the urine of cows that were fed mangos".
PRODUCT of ITALY, from Dyeing House Gallery.
$8.00 – $32.69 $6.00 – $24.52
Corriedale Cheesecake
Medium-soft and pleasing golden orange, a bit like mild cheddar cheese. Dyed 30 micron Corriedale wool top from Ashford of New Zealand.
