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Merino/Silk – Gemstone
$11.00 – $44.95 $8.25 – $33.71
80% Merino wool (22-micron) / 20% Mulberry silk from Ashford of New Zealand.
Combed top/sliver. A rather vibrant blend, with streaks of sapphire blue, wine, cherry-red, moss green, violet and silvery white.
PRODUCT of NEW ZEALAND
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Merino/Silk – Citrus
NEW August 2019. 80% Merino wool (22-micron) / 20% Mulberry silk from Ashford of New Zealand.
Combed top/sliver. Ribbons of deep grapefruit yellow and soft lemon kissed with orange, then streaked with silvery-white silk.
PRODUCT of NEW ZEALAND
$11.00 – $44.95 $8.25 – $33.71
Merino/Silk – Damson
80% Merino wool (22-micron) / 20% Mulberry silk from Ashford of New Zealand.
Combed top/sliver. Ribbons of medium-blue, navy and plum purple with streaks of silvery white silk.
PRODUCT of NEW ZEALAND
$11.00 – $44.95 $8.25 – $33.71
Merino/Silk – Spice
80% Merino wool (22-micron) / 20% Mulberry silk from Ashford of New Zealand.
Combed top/sliver. Streaks of earth tones, including dark and light chocolate, caramel, silvery white, and a hint of rust and tan.
PRODUCT of NEW ZEALAND
$11.00 – $44.95 $8.25 – $33.71
Logwood, Chips
Dried and cured chips from a tropical tree, Haematoxylum campechianum.
Use on protein or cellulose fibres. Pre-mordanting essential. Produces dramatic pink, blue, maroon and purple to black shades. Use at 20-50% WOF for medium shades.
TO USE: place chips in a stocking and soak overnight in cold water. Bring to a simmer for 1 hour, cool and remove stocking. Enter premordanted fibre and simmer for 1 hour. Bath may be used for successive dips, and by the 3rd or 4th dip the colours being yielded change to golds, greens or browns.
Light and washfastness: average. Keep dyed fibres away from bright light.
NEW: Logwood Extract: this has already been soaked out then reduced down to a powder. It's expensive but very strong and super convenient. Simply weigh out the extract at around 10% weight of fibre for medium shades, or adjust for darker or lighter. Dissolve in a measuring cup with hot (but not boiling) water, add to your dyepot with water, mix well, add your fibre and simmer for an hour.
