MAIWA'S HONEST YARN

After years working with artisan weavers and knitters, Maiwa has developed its own line of yarns. These yarns are everything we have been looking for in a spun fibre.

Our undyed linen shows the raw beauty of Belgian flax, spun in Bengal. Our naturally dyed yarns are rich and deep, coloured through the use of traditional recipes which have been developed by Maiwa in collaboration with master dyers in India.

The linen line has a wonderful buttery hand and the exceptional weight and presence that only linen can give. Available in fourteen colours and four weights.

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Maiwa's Honest Yarns - the voice of craft. 

The full collection of 20 patterns and colours is available in-store at our Granville Island location with selected pieces available online.

                 

Ajrakh is the name of a cloth that has been blockprinted in the traditional method using natural dyes such as indigo, madder, and pomegranate. The ajrakh process is a long one, involving several steps of washing and scouring the cloth, then additional steps to mordant the cloth, and still more steps as each colour is either directly blockprinted or resist blockprinted with natural dyes. the order is of utmost importance as the layers of colour are built up and the traditional geometric ajrakh patterns emerge.

We have just started working with a new group of Maharashtra block printers. A selection of one-of-a-kind contemporary ajrakh scarves and shawls like the two images above are available in-store at our Granville Island location.

Limited spaces are still available in:

Dyeing to Sew

The Indigo Apron

Reverse Pattern Drafting 4-Day