This is a beautifully soft, lustrous, lofty, fine 2 ply British blue-faced leicester pure woollen yarn, suitable for lace weight knitting, crochet or other crafts. We wind it into 30 metre skeins which are approximately 10g per skein, then dye it at our small outside dye house in Oxfordshire, using well water and plant or insect dyes, many of which are grown or gathered by us in a sustainable way from the organic Estate on which we are based. When we do use imported dyes we source these directly, or from a company with a strong ethical sourcing policy. The joy of natural dyes is the wide variety of colours, shades and tones we are able to produce. Whilst it would, in many ways be easier and more practical to batch dye and standardise our colours, we are reluctant to give up the individual and experimental and we enjoy making the results of this available to our customers. Therefore we give each colour or shade we produce a unique name and photograph it with a label, so that you can be clear about what you are buying. We name some of the classic colours that each dyestuff produces after the dyestuff itself (e.g. woad blue or madder red), other colours are named using the Pantone colour system (this occasionally causes confusion as several Pantone colours are also plant names - please contact us if you would like to know what dyestuffs have been used to create a particular colour). Alum-mordanted white skeins are an option for anyone wanting to do their own dyeing, the mordant will assist the natural dyestuff of your choice in binding to the wool. We have a reasonable stock of undyed wool of this type and we are very happy to create a custom order for you if you would like a larger quantity of one or more colours, or if there are colours you would like that are not listed. We have a policy of buying no new packaging material for use in posting out parcels, we re-use old packaging gathered from other local businesses, individuals and schools. We hope you will enjoy receiving your parcel, whatever shape and size it is, knowing that it has a little less impact on the environment.