Priced & sold by 2, 4, or 8oz. This is a custom blend that was blended for me by DHG shop. It is a blend of plant fibers. It is 50% Flax, 25% Ramie (Chinese nettle), & 25% Cotton. The flax in this blend is dark green, the Ramie & cotton are seafoam green. I think it’s fun to know which fiber is which as I’m spinning it. I’ve been really interested in spinning more cellulose fibers for warm weather, since it’s not always winter! I wanted a plant fiber-only blend with the durability of flax, but the softness of cotton. Flax fibers have a nice long staple length of 4-5" & make up 45% of this blend. Cotton has a staple length of only 1-1.5" & Ramie has a nice long staple length of 6-7". That is a big difference in staple length between the cotton & the flax, so I like to pull off a staple length of this fiber & spin it from the fold, so you catch each fiber, regardless of its staple length. I don’t weave, & spinning flax by itself resulted in a yarn that I didn’t feel like knitting & wearing. So, the answer was to blend it with cotton or Ramie to soften it. I still prefer not to ply this yarn on itself, because I want a light, very flexible, summer yarn, so I I like to ply it with thread. The tank top in the listing pictures was knitted with a single of this plant fiber blend plied with green thread. I used the Tour de Top pattern by Elsebeth Judith on Ravelry & added a simple 3x3 cable up the front for interest. I have knit 2 tank tops with this pattern from these plant fiber blends. They are light & wear well in the sticky heat & I can feel the air blowing through the knitted fabric! Ahhhh! I only needed 1 full bobbin of the singles yarn of this plant fiber blend to knit these tank tops! So that makes for a pretty quick spin! I just throw these tank tops in the washer & drier along with all the other laundry. Ramie top is a plant (bast) fiber from the Chinese Nettle plant….also known as Chinese Silk Plant. Ramie has a lot of luster, just like silk. It has a shiny appearance & feels silk-like, but with a little thicker fibers. Ramie is one of the most common fibers in Japanese textiles, & makes a very strong fabric that is rot resistent. This blend of fibers is vegan friendly. Flax Ramie Cotton Blend Combed Top For Spinning Felting Fiber Bast Cellulose Fibers Undyed Plant Fibre Vegan Chinese Nettle
