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Ramie Top – Cobalt
$7.25 – $29.62
100% Ramie.
Devilishly hard to photograph because of the sheen, this colour is a deep turquoise with blue aspirations.
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Ramie Top – Chocolate
100% Ramie.
A rich and deep bittersweet-chocolate brown.
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Merino/Silk – Gemstone
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.
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Ramie Top – Soft Fruit
100% Ramie.
Rich beet-red with a bit of blackberry purple for added flavour.
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Ramie (Top)
100% Ramie.
Very clean combed top, in pencil-roving width. Staple length is 7 to 8 inches. Ramie comes from the stem (bast) fibre of a tropical plant. Typically it is bleached to an almost pure white. Our supply is very fine and soft. Ramie can be spun by itself or used in blends. It's well-suited for lighter summer wear, from against-the-skin to outerwear. An intriguing fibre for those that can't wear wool. <
Since this is a plant or cellulose fibre dyers must use fibre reactive dyes. Natural dyers can resort to techniques used on cotton, such as alum-tannin premordanting, or Aluminum acetate. We don't know how Ramie responds in an indigo vat.
That being said, when blended with protein fibres, acid dyes will leave the ramie alone during dyeing, which makes for some wonderful streaky or heathered effects, depending on how well the fibres are blended.