Description

.60This beautifully soft pure Shetland yarn is from two of our own lovely ewes – Poppy and Flora. Our flock has Soil Association certified organic status, so our sheep are kept to organic standards and are used for conservation grazing to maintain some of the most bio-diverse chalk grassland on the Hardwick Estate and to graze the community orchards. They are hand shorn by us using blade shears and the fleeces are then gently washed by us, using an eco friendly wool scour. This fleece was then dyed by Romilly using our own home grown organic woad. After this it was gently washed again and air dried before being drum carded and hand spun (short draw), on a traditional Ashford wheel by Winnie or on an Ashford Joy by Flow . This is probably some of the most ethical yarn you can buy as it is all hand made within a mile of where the sheep are kept and the dye plants grown.

The yarn from Flora is a 2 ply approximately Aran to Chunky and the yarn from Poppy is spun to between DK and Aran weight and is also 2 ply.