Natural fibres & spinning wheels

Fibre for Spinning and Dyeing

Buy our carefully selected fibre for spinning and dyeing including natural white and natural coloured sheep wool from UK sheep breeds, as well as fine merino and luxury blends with silk. All of our fibre is supplied as tops, a continuous sliver of combed fibres prepared by combing the fibres after carding, and it is sold in multiples of 100 or 200 grams.

Read more about our fibers for spinning and dyeing.

 

More about our fibers for spinning and dyeing

Blue Faced Leicester Wool Tops

Blue Faced Leicester wool (BFL) is fine, dense and very lustrous and soft. It is a beautiful wool with a long 5 inch staple length and, therefore, is well suited to combing. Blue Faced Leicester is a British wool that is highly prized for its similarity to mohair and for its attractive, silky, lustrous yarns. It dyes very well and felts easily and quickly to a smooth, silky finish.

Shetland Wool Tops

Shetland is a soft traditional British wool that is very easy to blend either with other wool colours or with exotic fibres in a hand carder or drum carder because of its shorter staple length.

This wool felts quite quickly although not as quickly as Blue-faced Leicester. The felt is soft but with a hairy finish that adds contrast and texture to other wools.

Shetland-Tussah Silk 50% Blend

Feel & see the luxury of silk in this 50% Tussah silk blend with the added warmth & elasticity of Shetland wool. With 30% of silk you can feel the silk but you need at least 50% of silk in the wool-silk blend to both feel and see the silk!

Tussah Silk Tops

Tussah Silk Tops are a natural golden colour and are perfect for dyeing. They have a beautiful natural shine, spin easily, are very soft and are great for next to skin projects.

Tussah silk, or wild silk, is produced by tussah silk moth larvae, which feed on oak trees, and the golden colour comes from natural tannin in the oak leaves.

Use them for silk paper making, layering into felt, or hand spinning and weave or knit your handspun yarn.

White Merino 23 micron 64’s Tops

Our Merino tops are a very soft fine 23 micron wool for fine knitting, crochet and lace and great for wearing next to the skin or for baby's garments.

Merino dyes beautifully and can be spun from quite thick to extremely fine for beautiful lace. New spinners may find it a little harder to spin than medium wools and therefore it may not always be a good choice as a first fibre.


More fibres and fibre blends for spinning and dyeing coming soon...

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Last updated on 10 February 2012
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