AppleOak FibreWorks
Natural Dye House & Quality Fibre Arts & Crafts Supply
Natural Dye House & Quality Fibre Arts & Crafts Supply
Now available in different natural shades
Thick, cozy and completely natural socks made from 65% Wool and 35% Alpaca. perfect for everyday use and useful in spring and autumn as well as winter. These fluffy socks also make great bed companions! Our leg & Handwarmers pair up perfectly with this lovely sock, also available in long!
COMPOSITION
- 65% sheep wool
- 35% alpaca wool
WASH
- These should be ideally hand washed (or machine washed on a delicate cycle at 30° with a gentle wool detergent)
- Do not tumble, dry clean, iron or bleach
- Hang to dry
CARE
Footwear could have a major influence on the lifetime of your socks. If the insides or insoles of your shoes are lumpy or worn, it can damage your socks more easily.
Wear your wool socks once every 2-3 days allowing wrinkles to smooth out and fibers to recover naturally. No need to wash after every wear.
Put cedar balls, lavender or other moths protecting material to your socks drawer to prevent them from early deterioration.
Take good care of your feet. It can prevent snags and tears on your socks.
SIZING
Available in sizes from 35 to 47
*There are a few elastane strings on top to help socks stay in place. If you have any allergic reaction to any material or fiber, please let us know upfront before placing an order.
In addition, if you have any concerns regarding elastane and its environmental impact, please remove it when you believe your socks are no longer helpful and send/bring it back to us. We are working hard to find a bio-degradable alternative but in the meantime, repetitive use of elastane is the most sustainable option available. We will donate used elastane to the manufacturers of recycled polymer products.
We also recommend hand washing to prolong the life of your socks and the small amount of elastic used.
Naturally comfortable, moisture absorbent and softens with each use. These linen socks help to wick moisture away from your feet.
Light plain weave is designed to be comfortable since linen lack some of the elasticity you find in other fibers, but makes up for that in other incredible properties (i.e. moisture wicking, odor reducing, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, anti-microbial, etc.).
In line with all our models they contain no synthetic components and are not treated with any chemicals, hence eliminating all possible causes of allergy and irritation.
COMPOSITION
- 100% linen
WASH
- Ideally should be hand washed
- Could be machine washed at 30° with similar colours, ph neutral laundry detergent
- Do not tumble dry or bleach
- Hang to dry
CARE
Footwear can have a major influence on the lifetime of your socks. If the insides or insoles of your shoes are lumpy or worn, it can damage your socks more easily.
Put cedar balls, lavender or other moths protecting material to your socks drawer to prevent them from early deterioration.
Take good care of your feet. It can prevent snags and tears on your socks.
*There are a few elastane strings on top to help socks stay in place. If you have any allergies or concerns about any allergic reaction to any material or fiber, please let us know upfront before placing an order.
**Our socks are fully compostable once you have removed the elastic from the cuffs.
***We are actively researching for a biodegradable elastic, please get in touch if you have any suggestions.
We strive for simplicity and pureness and these socks are a great example of such qualities. Made from 100% hemp they are unique and rare to find any comparison with...and of course.. naturally dyed!
Hemp socks are naturally anti-bacterial, breathable, and hard-wearing. They are non-confining and therefore allow for good blood circulation . Biodegradable, vegan and eco-friendly. Like all our products, they are free from chemicals and keep your skin dry and healthy.
Designed for everyday wear especially when the weather gets warmer. You won't wear anything else after trying these...
COMPOSITION
- 100% hemp
Green - Chlorophyll, Brown - Catechu, Yellow - Organic Weld (unevenly dyed)
WASH
- Ideally should be hand washed
- Could be machine washed at 30°, neutral laundry detergent
- Do not tumble dry or bleach
- Hang to dry
CARE
Footwear has a major influence on the lifetime of your socks. If the insides or insoles of your shoes are lumpy or worn, it will damage your socks more easily.
Put cedar balls, lavender or other moths protecting material to your socks drawer to prevent them from early deterioration.
Take good care of your feet. It can prevent snags and tears on your socks.
*There are a few elastane strings on top to help socks stay in place. If you have any allergies or concerns about any allergic reaction to any material or fiber, please let us know upfront before placing an order.
**Our socks are fully compostable once you have removed the elastic from the cuffs.
***We are actively researching for a biodegradable elastic, please get in touch if you have any suggestions.
EUROPEAN MERINO WOOL ~ Small farm production, Europe only productions, dyed to high oekotext standards in Switzerland.
This European Merino Wool 27 micron wool roving is available in 60 trendy colours including 10 trendy mixed colours and several mixed blends. This wool is dyed with synthetic dye from Switzerland according to the standards of Oeko-Tex 100 and EU Ecolabel for textile products.
This soft wool is produced in Europe, closer to home than your regular merino wool! The wool is produced on small farms in Europe and is mulesing free.
This European Merino Wool roving is a soft, voluminous and affordable all-round wool. It is great for wet felting as well as for needle felting, spinning and of course for XXL chunky knitting. All fibers align in the same direction and the roving has a regular thickness, making it an easy wool to knit with.
Wool is usually sold per weight. But sometimes you want to know how long the wool roving is. We have calculated the roving length of the different packages below:
Please note that this is an approximation. The length can vary per type of wool, per colour or per production. And the harder you pull, the longer the roving becomes.
Would you want to make sure you get the wool roving in one piece?
We try our best to deliver the roving in one piece. But please count in that even when we try our best we don’t always succeed. Sometimes we have no choice but to deliver the desired quantity in two or more pieces.
EUROPEAN MERINO WOOL ~ Small farm production, Europe only productions, dyed to high oekotext standards in Switzerland.
This European Merino Wool 27 micron wool roving is available in 60 trendy colours including 10 trendy mixed colours and several mixed blends. This wool is dyed with synthetic dye from Switzerland according to the standards of Oeko-Tex 100 and EU Ecolabel for textile products.
This soft wool is produced in Europe, closer to home than your regular merino wool! The wool is produced on small farms in Europe and is mulesing free.
This European Merino Wool roving is a soft, voluminous and affordable all-round wool. It is great for wet felting as well as for needle felting, spinning and of course for XXL chunky knitting. All fibers align in the same direction and the roving has a regular thickness, making it an easy wool to knit with.
Wool is usually sold per weight. But sometimes you want to know how long the wool roving is. We have calculated the roving length of the different packages below:
Please note that this is an approximation. The length can vary per type of wool, per colour or per production. And the harder you pull, the longer the roving becomes.
Would you want to make sure you get the wool roving in one piece?
We try our best to deliver the roving in one piece. But please count in that even when we try our best we don’t always succeed. Sometimes we have no choice but to deliver the desired quantity in two or more pieces.
Naturally dyed, using Tannins, Indigo, Madder, Cochineal and many more, these linen threads have been carefully hand dyed, using sustainable and professional methods to create long lasting colours. A lot of love, time and patience has gone into these little jewels. Hand wound from cones into skeins, mordanted, dyed, dried and wound back by hand on enchanting little bobbin cards, these linen threads are very special indeed.
Available in an array of colour, there is approx. 60m (65yrds) or 10g on one sturdy bobbin card. Your average cotton floss has 8m on one skein.
When using for embroidery, make sure to keep your creation away from direct sunlight.
EUROPEAN MERINO WOOL ~ Small farm production, Europe only productions, dyed to high oekotext standards in Switzerland.
There are 6 colours in this collection: baby, shell oyster, peach, blush, rose, lipstick
This European Merino Wool 27 micron wool roving is available in 60 trendy colours including 10 trendy mixed colours. This wool is dyed with synthetic dye from Switzerland according to the standards of Oeko-Tex 100 and EU Ecolabel for textile products.
This soft wool is produced in Europe, closer to home than your regular merino wool! The wool is produced on small farms in Europe and is mulesing free.
This European Merino Wool roving is a soft, voluminous and affordable all-round wool. It is great for wet felting as well as for needle felting, spinning and of course for XXL chunky knitting. All fibers align in the same direction and the roving has a regular thickness, making it an easy wool to knit with.
Wool is usually sold per weight. But sometimes you want to know how long the wool roving is. We have calculated the roving length of the different packages below:
Please note that this is an approximation. The length can vary per type of wool, per colour or per production. And the harder you pull, the longer the roving becomes.
Would you want to make sure you get the wool roving in one piece?
We try our best to deliver the roving in one piece. But please count in that even when we try our best we don’t always succeed. Sometimes we have no choice but to deliver the desired quantity in two or more pieces.
Naturally dyed, using Tannins, Indigo, Madder, Cochineal and many more, these linen threads have been carefully hand dyed, using sustainable and professional methods to create long lasting colours. A lot of love, time and patience has gone into these little jewels. Hand wound from cones into skeins, mordanted, dyed, dried and wound back by hand on enchanting little bobbin cards, these linen threads are very special indeed.
A mixed Card of 6 Colours ~ 5m of each colour
Neutrals: Chimney sweep, Burren stone, Moonlight, Straw, Birch, White
When using for embroidery, make sure to keep your creation away from direct sunlight.
COTTLECOT ~ 100% Cotton, vegan friendly
Cottlecot is our newest addition to our plant fibre yarn range. It was hard to find a plant based yarn that is pleasant to knit with. After much back and forth, we settled on this one. Though we could have gone for a cheaper cotton or an organic cotton, at this time, Cottlecot was the best. Why? It is soft and doesn't split while knitting. It will not hurt your fingers, something I have been recently told, is very often the case with cotton yarns. It is a fantastic yarn for the classroom, beginners and perfect for crochet.
The yarn is produced in South America and spun into a 3ply yarn in Italy.
Vegan friendly: Naturally dye includes insect based dyes, which is not something every vegan conscience person is aware of. We make a point of keeping our Cottlecot yarn range vegan friendly and only using plant dyes, organic and/or homegrown whenever possible.
Natural Dyes: Cottlecot isn't an easy yarn to dye naturally, especially evenly. Due to the thick and 3 ply nature of the yarn, the natural dye finds it hard to penetrate through to the core. Therefore, most of the coloured yarn will fall into the category of semi solid.
Patterns: Criostal Cardigan by Knitwear designer Albina McLaughlin
In a nutshell:
Fibre: 100% Cotton
Yardage/Meterage: 182yrds/167m
Weight: suggested Aran knitting weight ~ 100g
Origin: Grown in South America
Spun in Italy
Needle size: 3-5mm
Suggested handwash or up to 60C degrees in gentle cycle.
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