While natural fibers like wool and cotton are popular options, acrylic yarn has gained a following among knitters due to its affordability and durability.
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This season, the COS womenswear team looked to nature to inform the prints in the collection. Tailored in an oversized shape, this shirt is crafted from naturally breathable linen and designed with a pointed collar and curved, stepped hem. It's decorated with intricate leaves unfurling around the shoulder and waist. Style it with the coordinating pants. Oversized fitButton closureRecycled linen is made from yarn-spinning waste or fabric-cutting waste from the production process. The waste is mechanically recycled and spun into new yarns Shell: 70% Linen, 30% Recycled linen. Excluding trims / Dry clean Back length of size 6 is 33.66" / Model wears a size 6
If you’re looking for a machine washable natural fiber blend, then you can stop right here. This CYC #4 worsted weight yarn is made up of 51% cotton and 49% linen fibers. Stitch it into everything from home décor to shawls and garments for the whole family. Wear your creations in warmer weather or anytime a breathable material is beneficial. Available in a sophisticated and versatile color palette, Touch of Linen has 197 yards per 100 gram ball. Not sure about a color, wondering how the yarn will stitch up, or simply need small bits of color? Check out our Touch of Linen Minis for an assorted 6 pack!
Check out some crochet au naturel: hemp, jute, and twine crochet projects for the home, to be worn, and even as works of art.
The milkweed plant produces a fiber that can be used by spinners. Fibers from hemp, flax, dogbane, milkweed and nettle have been used for thousands of years to produce textiles, cordage, netting, etc
Create 3 nature loom projects perfect for any season. Weave with different materials to create branch weaving projects.
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SKEINS: 2 skeins of Purl Soho + Knit Collage's Comet SIZE: 10 inches tall x 29 inches in circumference COLOR: Cosmic Rays
A comprehensive list of materials and tools you will need to create Waldorf-inspired or natural fiber art dolls.
Nature has such amazing colors and so many gorgeous layers and color combinations. Have you ever wondered if you could dye yarn with a particular herb or other plants nearby you? Growing up I loved to read and in several of my book adventures were people that had created dyes out of the everyday nat
Dyeing yarn with rosemary is a great way to get started with natural dyeing. Rosemary is readily available in many regions, even if you
The dry outer skins of onions can be used for coloring natural textile materials and easter eggs. Red onion skins create a different range of colors than yellow onions skins, so it's important to keep your dye sources separated. The process of achieving color from onion skins is one of the easiest sources of natural color, and is a great place to start if your just beginning with natural dying.
From flax to fiber: Discover the 8-step journey that transforms flax plants into linen fabric, unveiling the natural and sustainable process behind this textile
Sarah Resnick has been a maker her entire life. She now owns two companies, one producing high-quality yarns and supplies for fiber artists.
Natalie Miller has created the world's largest macrame chandeliers for Chinese New Year in Hong Kong.
The milkweed plant produces a fiber that can be used by spinners. Fibers from hemp, flax, dogbane, milkweed and nettle have been used for thousands of years to produce textiles, cordage, netting, etc
One of the best ways for rigid-heddle weavers to make floats is to use pick-up sticks. This allows weavers to make a third or fourth shed, and break the over/under configuration of plain weave. This post explains how to use pick-up sticks with your rigid heddle loom.
In the Spin Off Summer 2017 issue, Kate Larson shared her tips for spinning cabled yarns. Just follow these simple steps!
View pattern details. Beginner Cotton Towels Designed by Sarah Resnick. A classic set of striped cotton towels. This is an ideal project for beginners, whether you are learning on a rigid heddle loom or a multi-shaft loom. Order a kit. Equipment Rigid heddle loom (Read about adapting rigid heddle patterns for multi-shaft looms here.) 12 or 12.5-dent reed 1 boat shuttle + bobbin or stick shuttle Yarn Warp: Beam 3/2 Organic Cotton, 360 yds Natural, 60 yds Lemon, 120 yds Dandelion. Weft: Beam 3/2 Organic Cotton, 140 yds Lemon, 140 yds Dandelion. Specifications 18" weaving width 12 EPI 10 PPI Two towels, 15.5” W x 22” L Skill level: Beginner
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We use yarn every day but what do we know abut yarn fiber content? Take a look at the different kinds of yarn and what they can be used for!
Fiber Ounces vs Yarn Yardage: A guide to translating ounces into future yardage When I first started spinning (see Beginning Spinning) I was at a complete loss when it came to ounces and translatin…
Linen clothes always look so crisp and neat when you get them back from the cleaners. But who wants to spend the money sending linen clothes to the cleaners after every wearing? There are several easy home tips to keep your linen clothing looking straight-from-the-dry-cleaner fresh. Read on, and your linen clothes will look flawless for a lot less!
A comprehensive list of materials and tools you will need to create Waldorf-inspired or natural fiber art dolls.
“It's such a joy turning plants that people often see as weeds into tiny little woven baskets and jewelry.”
There’s quite a lot of technical language that you encounter when delving into the world of spinning instructions, and you’ll find yourself in an especially confusing place if you’…
Madder dyeing experiments. Mostly for Viking Age Re-enactment (my hobby on weekends). These were just sample bits tossed in with a friend's very very organized dye sampling to achieve a specific shade of red made by the Dutch and/or Flemish people in the Late Medieval period. A couple of the dyes/mordant combinations can't be traced back far enough for me to use for Viking Age clothing and textiles, but I'm completely in love with the Brazilwood/Madder combination, especially on the wool. Sadly, I'm a little leery of using it over-much as Brazilwood is an endangered species of tree, even though Maiwa, my main source for dyes, uses only reclaimed wood for their brazilwood dye. I think I need to try cochineal/madder, see what that does. Unfortunately, I hadn't really thought through how things were going to be dyed. Normally, at home when sampling, I use a large canning pot with the rack in upside down, and put each of the dye liquors in separate mason jars* with all the wee pieces of sample fabric floating freely inside, and fill the pot until it covers the jars up to about 2/3. I can do 6 sample lots at a time, 9 if I don't mind putting 3 in the centre where they could get hotter than the other 6. *Leave the lids off. But since the dyeing was being done in large pots (which was kind of the point, seeing as how we were sampling how a couple different pots affect the dyes) I couldn't really do that. Some of the samples were only about 2 inches square and gauzy, and I was afraid they'd get lost, so they got stuffed in stockings my friend was kind enough to give me, which really isn't the best idea. My samples are kinda spotty. Next time, I sew a cord through the corners and spread them out like charms on a bracelet, if I'm sampling in larger pots. Most of the samples are still useful. There's only one I didn't bother putting in; it had gotten rolled up inside a couple other samples and didn't really get any dye at all. And one skein of silk was also rolled in with it and only got dye in patches. Oh well. I learned a bunch and got some cool samples, so I'm happy. My handwoven wool came out beautifully. The silk is definitely more finicky about being free-floating than the wool. Brazilwood seems to discharge indigo. Seriously! When I untied the knot holding the wool thread samples together, the only reason I knew which was which was from the way I'd tied them in. If I'd had to guess, I would have guessed wrong, the straight madder/brazilwood was DARKER than the overdyed thread, and the pale bit where the overdyed piece had been tied in showed no sign of blue! Cottons. Yes I know, if I want reds on cellulose fibres I need to use tannins. I have, though, in the past, and still got pinks. I'm trying to find out what tannin sources (that don't dye the fibres themselves) were used in the Viking Age, but haven't stumbled across that info yet. Not that I've been looking hard either! Linen. I love the pinks from the Madder/Brazilwood. Tin makes the linen too orange for my tastes, though my friend thinks the tinning in the pot dissolved and the orange may be a reaction from the metal the pot is made of, possibly cheap aluminium. The Madder and Madder in Copper are both quite pretty. Silk is spotty. Madder and madder-in-copper are actually pretty much the same colour. The madder-in-tin is definitively orange. The madder/brazilwood is strangely weak on the silk. The madder-in-tin was less orange on the wool than the silk, though still definitely orange leaning red. The madder and madder-in-copper were similar again. On the fabrics the madder-in-copper was slightly bluer-tinged, but the madder dyed the threads darker than madder-in-copper.I'm tempted to try some of my left-over sample packets in a cool madder vat, and one with pieces of copper in it, see if it turns out any redder. The madder/brazilwood is just gorgeous. The picture doesn't do it justice. The Madder/Indigo overdyes. The threads were dyed with indigo first, mostly because it's leftovers from another project, but dyeing first with indigo is apparently recommended anyway, especially with a chemical vat, since at least one of the chemicals is a bleaching agent.
Wooden Niddy-noddy: A niddy-noddy is a tool used to make skeins (basically just big coils of yarn). This niddy-noddy was made as a gift for my mother. I was looking for instructions, and could only find them for PVC niddy-noddies. I knew my mum would not be happy with …
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This is my wool and yarn room… I have been trying to organise this space somewhat and I thought I would share it here… The glass door cupboards used to be in our lounge, but when we repainted we decided we preferred the room without them and so into the wool room they went. I …
Bubbles in natural wool :D, a photo by Miti - Mota on Flickr.I'm crocheting a bubble shawl today...I hope to share more pics soon...because is coming my new photoshoot!!! Do you like this texture?...I'm so happy because I finally found a great-super-pretty natural wool from De Origen Chile. If you love the fibers, then you absolutely love her work.
