BIRCH BARK ~ cut
BIRCH BARK (Betula pendula) ~ Dye Colour pink, browns, salmon
A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus Betula, in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams. It is closely related to the beech-oak family Fagaceae.
Colour fastness: poor - medium
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Basic Recipe:
Alum (mordant) 10-15% D.W.F
Birch Bark 100-200% D.W.F
Pour boiling water over the bark and steep for 24-48h
Boil the bark for two hours and strain. Add the mordanted yarn to the bath and leave until desired colour outcome or overnight.
*You can change the colour using iron, or other shifters like soda ash or citric acid
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CORN ~ European Merino
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.This wool is dyed with synthetic dye from Switzerland according to the standards of Oeko-Tex 100 and EU Ecolabel for textile products.
Responsibly Produced
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.
Perfect for Felting, Spinning and Knitting
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.
How long is this roving?
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:
- 50 grams = approx. 2 meters
- 250 grams = about 10 meters
- 1 kilo = about 40 meters
- Bump of 4.5 kilos = approx. 180 meters
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.
COTTLECOT ~ Lemon
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.
CUSTARD ~ European Merino
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.This wool is dyed with synthetic dye from Switzerland according to the standards of Oeko-Tex 100 and EU Ecolabel for textile products.
Responsibly Produced
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.
Perfect for Felting, Spinning and Knitting
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.
How long is this roving?
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:
- 50 grams = approx. 2 meters
- 250 grams = about 10 meters
- 1 kilo = about 40 meters
- Bump of 4.5 kilos = approx. 180 meters
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.
DOOLIN ~ Duckling
Let’s celebrate the humble nettle! Doolin can also be used for all softwool patterns.
Doolin is made from 80%wool and 20% Ramie and the bigger brother of our 4ply Turin, made from a similar blend but including Silk as well. Ramie is a bast fibre, made from the inner phloem of the nettle. Ramie not only gives the yarn a gentle sheen, but also provides strength and stability needed for the heel and toe areas making it a great alternative to nylon rich yarns. Ramie doesn’t absorb dye the same way as wool does, giving this yarn a unique two-toned mottled effect.
Doolin and Turin are 'all rounder' yarns suitable for any project you set your mind too.
Like with all hand knitted items, a gentle handwash is best, however, this yarn has been washing machine tested by us and can be wool washed if preferred.
We also have some stunning patterns available for this yarn in our pattern section, designed by LBhandknits for AppleOak FibreWorks.
Patterns shown:
Ascophylia hat pattern
Sleeping in the Garden sock pattern
Rochelle Sock pattern
80% wool & 20% Ramie
weight Sport
100gr/ 3.5oz
300m/ 328yards
2-3mm needles
Dyed in Ireland naturally using fresh organic Coreopsis plants.
Origins: Wool USA, Ramie China, spun in the Czech Republic
DOOLIN ~ Finch
Let’s celebrate the humble nettle! Doolin can also be used for all softwool patterns.
Doolin is made from 80%wool and 20% Ramie and the bigger brother of our 4ply Turin, made from a similar blend but including Silk as well. Ramie is a bast fibre, made from the inner phloem of the nettle. Ramie not only gives the yarn a gentle sheen, but also provides strength and stability needed for the heel and toe areas making it a great alternative to nylon rich yarns. Ramie doesn’t absorb dye the same way as wool does, giving this yarn a unique two-toned mottled effect.
Doolin and Turin are 'all rounder' yarns suitable for any project you set your mind too.
Like with all hand knitted items, a gentle handwash is best, however, this yarn has been washing machine tested by us and can be wool washed if preferred.
We also have some stunning patterns available for this yarn in our pattern section, designed by LBhandknits for AppleOak FibreWorks.
Patterns shown:
Ascophylia hat pattern
Sleeping in the Garden sock pattern
Rochelle Sock pattern
In a nutshell for 1 skein:
80% wool & 20% Ramie
weight Sport
100gr/ 3.5oz
300m/ 328yards
2-3mm needles
Dyed in Ireland naturally using fresh organic Coreopsis plants.
Origins: Wool USA, Ramie China, spun in the Czech Republic
DOOLIN ~ Marigold
Let’s celebrate the humble nettle! Doolin can also be used for all softwool patterns.
Doolin is made from 80%wool and 20% Ramie and the bigger brother of our 4ply Turin, made from a similar blend but including Silk as well. Ramie is a bast fibre, made from the inner phloem of the nettle. Ramie not only gives the yarn a gentle sheen, but also provides strength and stability needed for the heel and toe areas making it a great alternative to nylon rich yarns. Ramie doesn’t absorb dye the same way as wool does, giving this yarn a unique two-toned mottled effect.
Doolin and Turin are 'all rounder' yarns suitable for any project you set your mind too.
Like with all hand knitted items, a gentle handwash is best, however, this yarn has been washing machine tested by us and can be wool washed if preferred.
We also have some stunning patterns available for this yarn in our pattern section, designed by LBhandknits for AppleOak FibreWorks.
Patterns shown:
Ascophylia hat pattern
Sleeping in the Garden sock pattern
Rochelle Sock pattern
In a nutshell for 1 skein:
80% wool & 20% Ramie
weight Sport
100gr/ 3.5oz
300m/ 328yards
2-3mm needles
Dyed in Ireland naturally using fresh organic Coreopsis plants.
Origins: Wool USA, Ramie China, spun in the Czech Republic
FELT BEADS HANDMADE 18mm ~ 50 pieces mixed in 5 VIP colours
Ready to go, these lovely beads are a mixed collection of 5 colours. Approximately 1.8cm big and perfect for making necklaces, bracelets or keychains, hanging mobiles or even as mini Christmas tree decorations! A great project starter!
The beads are made in Nepal, supporting unprivileged Women with a fair income.
All beads are handmade and can vary slightly in size.
FELT BEADS HANDMADE 18mm ~ Sun Yellow 10 pieces
Ready to go, these lovely beads come in an array of colours. Approximately 1.8cm big and perfect for making necklaces, bracelets or keychains, hanging mobiles or even as mini Christmas tree decorations! A great project starter!
The beads are made in Nepal, supporting unprivileged Women with a fair income.
All beads are handmade and can vary slightly in size.
FELT BEADS HANDMADE 18mm ~ Yellow 10 pieces
Ready to go, these lovely beads come in an array of colours. Approximately 1.8cm big and perfect for making necklaces, bracelets or keychains, hanging mobiles or even as mini Christmas tree decorations! A great project starter!
The beads are made in Nepal, supporting unprivileged Women with a fair income.
All beads are handmade and can vary slightly in size.
FUSTIC DYE
FUSTIC HARDWOOD DYE, Dyer's Mulberry ~ Dye Colour yellow and green
Fustic was introduced into Europe in the 16th century. It is a viable source of yellow, creating clear bright yellows to greens when overdyed with indigo. Made from the hardwood of Chlorophora or Morus tinctoria, this tree is part of the Mulberry family.
Fustic is extremely strong and only 25% of dye (W.D.F) is needed. Once dyed, the wood chips can be dried and re used again another time.
Colourfastness: poor to medium
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Basic Recipe:
25% Fustic cut
10% Alum
Mordant yarn by dissolving Alum in hot water, add yarn and leave overnight.
Pour hot water over the woodchips and leave steeping overnight.
The next day:
Rinse mordanted yarn.
Strain dye and dry for another day.
Add yarn to dye bath, heat to 85C for 1hour.
Rinse and dry yarn.
*When using the dye again, boil it for 45min, the yellow will be darker.
**You can change the colour to olive green by adding 3% Iron.
*** Creates lovely clear greens when overdyed with Indigo
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GOLDEN ~ Merino Silk blend
50% Merino 19mic
Origin: South America
50% Mulberry Silk
Origin: China
Blended and dyed in Switzerland
HEATHER DYE
HEATHER DYE ~ Dye Colour yellow and green
Heather blooms in late Summer here in Ireland, covering our green hills in a blanket of purple, pink and white. Heather was traditionally used to dye wool and tweed yellow and green brown.
The Flowers by themselves will give clearer yellows and greens with Iron. The whole Heather plant, due to the tannin in the wood, creates deeper golden yellows and green browns with iron.
Colourfastness: Medium
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Basic Recipe:
100-200% Heather
10% Alum
Mordant yarn by dissolving Alum in hot water, add yarn and leave overnight.
Extract dye, by adding to pot and bring to 85C for one hour. Strain.
Rinse mordanted yarn.
Add yarn to dye bath, heat to 85C for 1hour or leave overnight for a deeper colour.
Rinse and dry yarn.
*You can change the colour to olive green by adding 3% Iron.
INPRINT FIREBIRD - 21 mic Merino 3532
Please contact me if you like less or more or need some help in choosing the right fiber for your project.
Thank you!
21mic Merino
3 colours
20g/m
museling free farming
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INPRINT FIRELIGHT - 21 mic Merino 3531
Please contact me if you like less or more or need some help in choosing the right fiber for your project.
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21mic Merino
3 colours
20g/m
museling free farming
MULTIBLEND EARTH LIGHT ~ Merino wool 21mic
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21mic Merino
3 colours in one
museling free
MULTIBLEND LICORICE ~ Merino wool 27mic
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27mic Merino
3 colours in one
museling free
MULTIBLEND SUNSHINE ~ Merino wool 21mic
Please contact me if you like less or more or need some help in choosing the right fiber for your project.
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21mic Merino
3 colours in one
museling free
MUSTARD ~ European Merino
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.This wool is dyed with synthetic dye from Switzerland according to the standards of Oeko-Tex 100 and EU Ecolabel for textile products.
Responsibly Produced
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.
Perfect for Felting, Spinning and Knitting
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.
How long is this roving?
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:
- 50 grams = approx. 2 meters
- 250 grams = about 10 meters
- 1 kilo = about 40 meters
- Bump of 4.5 kilos = approx. 180 meters
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 WOOL FLEECE ~ Light Yellow
Naturally Dyed Wool Fleece ~ 27mic
Dyed in Germany
From Museling free farming
These beautiful fleeces have been dyed with traditionally used natural plant dyes like Indigo, Madder and Weld. Due to the dye procedure, these fleeces are already slightly felted. Therefore wet felting can be slightly challenging, but they are suitable for all other fibre applications like needle felting, spinning and more.
The colours shown on the picture are as close to the original colours as possible. Nonetheless, your screen might influence the different colour depths of the picture shown.
NATURALLY DYED WOOL FLEECE ~ Salmon
Naturally Dyed Wool Fleece ~ 27mic
Dyed in Germany
From Museling free farming
These beautiful fleeces have been dyed with traditionally used natural plant dyes like Indigo, Madder and Weld. Due to the dye procedure, these fleeces are already slightly felted. Therefore wet felting can be slightly challenging, but they are suitable for all other fibre applications like needle felting, spinning and more.
The colours shown on the picture are as close to the original colours as possible. Nonetheless, your screen might influence the different colour depths of the picture shown.
NETTLE CUT ORGANIC
ORGANIC NETTLES ~ Used as herb and dye. Dye Colour yellow and green.
Country of Origin: Hungary
Urtica Fol. Organic, often known as common nettle, stinging nettle or nettle leaf, or just a nettle or stinger, is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Urticaceae. Originally native to Europe it has now spread worldwide.
Nettles have been used since ancient times and can be eaten, are used in herbal medicine and dyeing.
Nettles can be used fresh and dry - similar to Lovage, the best results are achieved with fresh plants, but dried plant material works well as well.
Colourfastness: medium
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Basic recipe:
100-200% Nettle (100% if using fresh only)
3-5% Iron
Wool (mordanted 10% Alum)
Line the pot with a cloth. Fill the pot half with water and add the nettle.
Bring to about 85-95 degrees Celsius for 1 hour.
Tie dye in Cloth and leave in bath.
Add wool and simmer gently for 1 hour.
Add 3% -5% iron to the dye bath to turn it green.
Remove after about 10min, rinse & dry.
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NEW ZEALAND MERINO FLEECE ~ Yellow
Blended and Dyed in Germany Öko-Tex® Standard 100 GOTS certificate
From museling free farms
Beautifully dyed in deep colours, these fleeces are very suitable for felting objects, bags etc. The fibers are of short length and produce a strong felt, needle or wet felt alike. The fleece is a mix of dyed wool and cotton dots, when spun, can create a donegal tweed effect.
The colours shown on the picture are as close to the original colours as possible. Nonetheless, your screen might influence the different colour depths of the picture shown.
OCHRE ~ European Merino
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.This wool is dyed with synthetic dye from Switzerland according to the standards of Oeko-Tex 100 and EU Ecolabel for textile products.
Responsibly Produced
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.
Perfect for Felting, Spinning and Knitting
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.
How long is this roving?
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:
- 50 grams = approx. 2 meters
- 250 grams = about 10 meters
- 1 kilo = about 40 meters
- Bump of 4.5 kilos = approx. 180 meters
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.
ORGANIC ANNATTO SEED DYE
ORGANIC ANNATTO SEEDS (Bixa orellana) ~ Dye Colour Yellow and Orange
Harvested in the Wild of Côte D'Ivoire
Wool, Silks, Cotton and Linen can be dyed successfully with Annatto Seeds. It gives a radiant yellow orange. If you combine the dye bath with Cochineal you get brilliant reds and rose-red colours.
*The dye is not very light fast and might have to be redyed after a few years. However, combined with Cochineal, it will hold out longer.
**Use Cream of tartar and Cochineal for orange red colours. Pre dye silks with madder root, then add to an Annatto bath to make a beautiful copper orange. A yolk yellow can be achieved using tartaric acid and Annatto seeds.
Colour fastness: Poor - medium
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Basic Recipe for yellow:
*You can use this bath again for a yellow orange and a light yellow orange, with every further dip the dye will be less vibrant.
**It is worthwhile soaking the Wool in a vinegar bath for 10 minutes before dyeing.
100gr wool or silk mordanted in 15% Alum and 10% Cream of Tartar for 1 hour.
100g Annatto Seeds
1.Soak 100gr Annatto seed with 10gr Soda in water over night.
2.Blend in a mixer and simmer for 1 hour. Pour mixture through a cloth, tie off the seeds (dye bag) and keep the dye bath.
3.To dye: Add the silk for 20 minutes at 80 degrees.
Simmer wool for one hour without the dye bag.
Add the silk again for another 15min. Wash and rinse.
ORGANIC BIRCH LEAVES ~ available cut or whole
BIRCH LEAVES DYE ORGANIC (Betula pendula) ~ Dye Colour yellow and green
A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus Betula, in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams. It is closely related to the beech-oak family Fagaceae.
Colour fastness: Good
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Basic Recipe:
Alum (mordant) 15% D.W.F
Dry birch leaves 100-200% D.W.F
Soak the leaves for a day before using.
Boil the soaked leaves for one hour and drain. Add the alum to this solution and simmer the yarn for half to one hour.
*If the yarn is dried without rinsing and then placed in a weak birch ash lye, the colour becomes a reddish yellow.
**You can change the colour to green by adding 5% Iron.
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ORGANIC BUCKTHORN BARK ~ available at wholesale prices
Glossy Buckthorn Bark Organic ~ Dye colour yellow golden, pinks and reds.
*Collected in the Wild of Bosnia
To achieve reds and pinks, the PH needs to be increased to 10-11 (alkaline). Keep in mind to always use PH neutral soap with PH sensitive colours. This dye gives a good green when iron is added and was used traditionally to make artist paint.
Colourfastness: Good
Ph Sensitive Dye
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Basic Recipe:
65g bark, soaked in water for 2 days.
100g mordanted yarn/fibre (Alum 13g)
Bring pot with dye to simmer For 2h.
Strain through cloth, add yarn/fibre and dye bag to dye bath for 1h.
Rinse.