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Iron and Osage orange has been combined here to create a lovely olive shade. By adding iron to the normal Osage orange dye process, the color shifts to become a lovely more subtle shade.
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. Choose between two yarns weights (DK or worsted). Both of these yarn weights are single ply and come in 200 yard skeins (182y).
Lead time is 5 days on dyed to order for under three skeins. For 3-8 skeins, lead time will be 7 days. If you are ordering more than 8 skeins I will contact you with a ship by estimate. All lots will be dyed as one lot so the skeins match perfectly.
If you are unfamiliar with single ply yarn, two commercially available single ply yarns you might have tried are the Malabrigo worsted weight and the Manos de Uruguay Franca.
Iron and Osage orange has been combined here to create a lovely olive shade. By adding iron to the normal Osage orange dye process, the color shifts to become a lovely more subtle shade.
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. Choose between two yarns weights (DK or worsted). Both of these yarn weights are single ply and come in 200 yard skeins (182y).
Lead time is 5 days on dyed to order for under three skeins. For 3-8 skeins, lead time will be 7 days. If you are ordering more than 8 skeins I will contact you with a ship by estimate. All lots will be dyed as one lot so the skeins match perfectly.
If you are unfamiliar with single ply yarn, two commercially available single ply yarns you might have tried are the Malabrigo worsted weight and the Manos de Uruguay Franca.