Archive for April 2014
Falkland Island Sustainable Wool
Imagine an unpolluted environment with clear blue skies, seamless horizons and vast, unspoiled open spaces. That’s the Falkland Islands. This isolated archipelago, some 300 miles east of the Patagonian coastline in the Atlantic Ocean, just happens to be an ideal place to raise sheep. And for more than 160 years, the farmers on these remote,…
Read MoreSouth African Cape Wool
To ensure you always have the finest materials – at the best possible value – Ashland Bay literally sources fibers from all over the world. This is just one of the great places that Ashland Bay sources our 21.5 and 19 micron merinos. South African Cape Wool is just one example. It is a beautiful…
Read MoreDyepot Double Dipping
Have you ever hand dyed a yarn, with a specific idea in mind, only to have it turn out the complete opposite of what you wanted? This has been a reoccurring theme for me lately. I wanted to knit a cowl using one solid color and one hand painted yarn for contrast. I choose the…
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