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This dyed to order yarn is the perfect variegated green. This is created from overlaying indigo over a base dyed with Osage orange to achieve a clear green color. This colorway has become a favorite during the spring sheep and wool festivals- its beautiful color mimics all the new growth during that season.
Indigo has been used by a variety of cultures across the world as their primary blue pigment. Its derived from a number of sources, including plants in the genus’ Persicaria, Indigofera and Isatis. Each of these plants produce different amount of the indigo pigment and can be grouped under the heading “indigo” or called by their specific common names, such as dyers knotweed, woad and natal indigo. You find examples of indigo dyed cloth from the Andes to the Indus.
Osage Orange, (Maclura pomifera) is also known as bois d’arc or hedge apple is a woody shrub found in the southeast United States. It was commonly used as wood for bows among the Osage and Comanche peoples in that area. (I have yet to find its name in either one of those languages, but would be very interested to know). The wood shavings from this tree create a strong colorfast dye. Its postulated that this shrub evolved to be dispersed by now extinct megafauna, but that theory is controversal (but fun to think about).
This yarn is 100% hand spun wool. Our “Fen” line is a singly ply worsted weight yarn in 200 yard skeins (182y). For the in stock products, the pictures are always of the same dye lot that you skeins will come from.
This dyed to order yarn is the perfect variegated green. This is created from overlaying indigo over a base dyed with Osage orange to achieve a clear green color. This colorway has become a favorite during the spring sheep and wool festivals- its beautiful color mimics all the new growth during that season.
Indigo has been used by a variety of cultures across the world as their primary blue pigment. Its derived from a number of sources, including plants in the genus’ Persicaria, Indigofera and Isatis. Each of these plants produce different amount of the indigo pigment and can be grouped under the heading “indigo” or called by their specific common names, such as dyers knotweed, woad and natal indigo. You find examples of indigo dyed cloth from the Andes to the Indus.
Osage Orange, (Maclura pomifera) is also known as bois d’arc or hedge apple is a woody shrub found in the southeast United States. It was commonly used as wood for bows among the Osage and Comanche peoples in that area. (I have yet to find its name in either one of those languages, but would be very interested to know). The wood shavings from this tree create a strong colorfast dye. Its postulated that this shrub evolved to be dispersed by now extinct megafauna, but that theory is controversal (but fun to think about).
This yarn is 100% hand spun wool. Our “Fen” line is a singly ply worsted weight yarn in 200 yard skeins (182y). For the in stock products, the pictures are always of the same dye lot that you skeins will come from.