Se on 100% suomenlampaan villalankaa, jonka teetämme itse lajittelemistamme villoista Pirtin kehräämössä omana eränämme. Aiemmin meillä oli omiakin lampaita, mutta kun aika ei riitä kaikkeen (eikä enää nuorrukaan), niin luovuimme niistä ja nyt ostamme hyvää, pehmeää ja kiharaa villaa tuttavalampureilta.
Lanka on 2-säikeistä, 200x2 tex. Meillä on sitä nyt 8 eri sävyä ja käytän kaikkia niitä värjäykseen, jopa lampaan mustaa olen värjännyt indigolla, niin että se tulee mustaksi ruskeanmustan sijaan. Näin saan useita sävyjä samastakin liemestä halutessani, ja vain yhdellä puretusaineella, alunalla viinikiven kanssa. Usein kyllä yritän värjätä koko satsin samaa väriä.
Myymme myös näitä lampaan sävyjä värjäämättömänä.
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A little about the yarn I dye. It comes from Finnsheep, an old sheepbreed in Finland, white, black and brown sheep. (I will write more about that sometime later) We used to have our own sheep, but there is never enough time for everything one wants to do, so now we buy the good wool from our friends, who have sheep.
The yarn is soft 2-ply, 200x2 tex, and it has natural lanolin left in the wool. It comes in 8 different natural shades and I dye all of them, though mostly white and grey shades. This way I can get different colors from the same dyebath with only one mordant, alum with cream of tartar.
We sell also these sheep colored yarns.
Look under Label How to order for more about ordering yarn, here
What do you mean by: 200-tex ?
ReplyDeleteIs it about thickness of the yarn?
Yes, it refers to the thickness. It is how much yarn there is in one ply in one kilometre length, it is said grams/kilometre. Like in 200 x 2 means: 2 means there are two plys and when one ply is 1km long it weights 200grams. Very complicated when I try to explain it, in Finland it is how yarns are described.
ReplyDeleteIn this yarn I have weighted that in 100grams there is about 220-230 meters of yarn, actually that is less than should be. I knit this yarn with 2,5mm needles and in 10cm there is about 26 stitches. If you knit tighter, you can use 3 mm needles and still get the same gauge.
By the way, Ineke, in your pages, your work is very beautiful!
Now I understand the label of the Pirkka lanka my daughter brought me last year!I'm used to think in gramms and meters. Your yarn is very nice for the knitting of mittens and gloves I think, which I like to do with 2,5 mm needles.
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