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Luxury Spinning Fibre 4-pack with spindle (100 g) with a Cheeky Cherries hand-turned hardwood support spindle to help you spin your magic!
Luxury Spinning Fibre 4-pack with spindle (100 g) is NOT a typical ‘starter pack’ which usually include a sub-standard starter-spindle and some arbitrary beginner-friendly fibres. This pack consists of a hand-turned hardwood support spindle, as well as 4 fibre packs of around 25 g each (at least 100g in total), containing 1 x Alpaca (top or hand-carded), 1 x Hampshire down (hand-carded – fabulous sock wool – add 20% to alpaca for truly luxurious socks!), 1 x either Blue Faced Leicester picked locks (perfect for tail spinning or core-spun art yarns) OR Gotland unprocessed locks OR Suri fibre (hand-carded), and 1 of the following imported fibres (hand carded): Blue Texel (perfect for socks, jumpers, weaving), Cashmere, Shetland black, Shetland white, Shetland grey, or a pack with a small selection of all three colours (the three Shetland colours come from a single fleece – colours were separated, so black may have the odd white fibre, and white may have the odd black fibre), Romney (staple for socks, jumpers, weaving), Ryeland grey (for socks, beanies etc).
More about our Luxury Spinning Fibres:
Alpaca – the fibre of the gods – what more can we say… Decadently soft, heavenly fluff – the ultimate in luxury spinning fibre!
Suri Alpaca – the silky Queen of royal luxury spinning fibre! The absolute top of the crop, only second to Vicuña – the unobtainable – this is how you turn spectacular creations into truly magical masterpieces!
Hampshire Down – Typical down fleece (short staple, low lustre, fine elastic crimp) but it is also very dense, fine and uniform throughout. Takes dye nicely! Adding about 20 to 30% Hampshire to alpaca adds memory to create pure indulgence and truly luxurious socks – a match made in heaven!
Blue faced Leicester (BFL) – An incredibly versatile luxury spinning fibre, fondly known as BFL, fine enough not to be scratchy, yet strong enough to wear well. Dyes produce shimmering colours. Moderately feltable. Great to blend with other fibres, and the picked locks are a tailspinners dream! Watch this for inspiration! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv24qJaEhpk&t=45s
Gotland – What can I say, besides alpaca, this has got to be my absolute favourite luxury spinning fibre in the world. In fact, I am dreaming of starting a breeding flock of Gotland sheep right here in South Africa! It is an unusual wool, shiny grey, resembling fine mohair or an English longwool, but without the scratch! Often comfortably worn next-to-skin, but used to make the famous Viking varafeldur – a lovely draping full-length cape – truly a sight to behold! Can be spun into either smooth or heavily textured yarns, and the unspun locks themselves are beautiful! Hence offering this fleece in it’s natural unprocessed splendour – other than washed of course! Customs insist on that! Be warned, it does felt!
Blue Texel – Another one of my favourites, it spins like a dream, and it’s much softer than its looks would lead you to believe! Shades of steel grey and even black and brown in the same fleece, ensures one can make a garment in colour work from the same fleece! Exactly what I’m doing! Unfortunately, that’s also why the stock is limited, but it will definitely be included again in my next import! Staple lengths from 7.5 to as much as 15cm. Microns from 26 to 33.
Cashmere – Who doesn’t know cashmere? A truly lovely luxury spinning fibre, a warm and soft hug guaranteed – only beaten by the softness and thermal heat-holding of alpaca. A very short staple, be warned, but lovely to spin with and even nicer to blend. Obviously, I couldn’t help blending it with alpaca, and it’s just pure bliss! Socks, gloves, cowls, baby blankets, and my personal to-do-list includes a vintage twinset in cashmere and alpaca!
Shetland – Another famous fibre, but rather scarce in South Africa, but If you’re a colour work addict, and fair-isle knitting is your thing, ooooh, this is such fun! I am working on eventually stocking all the colours I can get (11 defined colours – a perfect match with alpaca again!), next up will be moorit – a lovely reddish brown… But for now you will have to make do with black, white or grey… A lovely soft fibre! A fair-isle knitter’s dream! That’s where fair-isle knitting comes from, after all! Shetland can range from beige through to mixed and pure black. It has a medium to short stable and staple finishes on a lovely spiral texture.
Romney – Another one of those versatile fibres! Romney is a wonderful huge fleece with long soft locks and a lovely gentle crimp. Ideal for spinning for clothing, felting and weaving.
Ryeland – A rather surprising fibre I might never have considered, if it wasn’t included in my 54 fibre breeds breed study. It was such a pleasure spinning it, I had to get a whole fleece! Coloured Ryeland is a beautiful bouncy, colourful wool full of greys, browns and even a blue appearance within the fleece. Coloured Ryeland is amazing for colours in needle felting, peg loom rug making and spinning. The wool is soft and fluffy to touch.
Please state your choice of luxury spinning fibres when you place your order. If you order a second pack, (2 is the limit), please state whether you want a duplicate – more of the same fibres – or different – for variety. This is subject to availability. If a particular imported fibre should be out of stock, a similar type pack will be added.
1 x Quality hand-turned hardwood support spindle included in this Luxury Spinning Fibre 4-pack with spindle spinning fibre box!
Price R1045.00 (Free shipping)
