Maiwa's Honest Yarns – Cones & Skeins — Dyed by Hand with Natural Colour
18 COLOURS
3 WEIGHTS AVAILALBE IN SKEINS
1 WEIGHT IN CONES
After years of working with artisan weavers and knitters, Maiwa has developed its own line of naturally dyed yarns. These yarns are everything we have been looking for in a spun fibre.
Our Linen Honest Yarn shows the raw beauty of Belgian flax, spun in Bengal. It offers a wonderful buttery hand and the exceptional weight and presence that only linen can give.
CONES
Cobweb
Our second lightest weight yarn, beautiful for weaving projects or for fine knitting and crochet lace. It loves being thrown in a shuttle and makes an ideal warp and weft.
SKEINS
Lace
Great for fine knitting and crochet: summer shawls, lace projects, open work, and fine warm weather garments.
Fingering
Great for fine knitting and crochet.
Sport
A heavier weight. Project suggestions include a market bag, draped summer sweaters, spring top, woven dish towels.
Linen is one of the more challenging fibres to dye naturally, especially to dye well. But we feel we've nailed it. Beautiful rich jewel-like tones that are both deep and even. Lighter colours that are consistent, level, and delicate without being weak. Colours that are as satisfying to work with as the act of creating.
Maiwa's colour development and testing goes deep. We've spent decades beside the dye pot working with materials like cutch, madder, lac, myrobalan, pomegranate and of course, indigo. These yarns have excellent light and wash fastness — we are so proud of them.
You can also buy Maiwa's honest yarns undyed and colour them yourself. To know how we do ours, visit our website at naturaldyes.ca
HONEST YARN & SABRINA SACHIKO NIEBLER
Sachi has made quite a name for herself as an artisan working through the practice of making kami-ito (paper thread) and weaving it into cloth (known as shifu). She also makes weavings of exceptional character by working with yarns she naturally dyes with osage and marigold. Sachi has been featured in the book Yarn • Thread • String - published by Uppercase.
We are very proud to say that Sachi is also on staff with Maiwa and we look to her often for anything related to weaving. See her work, beautifully photographed, at sabrinasachiko.com or visit her instagram feed @sabrinasachiko.
WOVEN SAMPLES BY JANE STAFFORD
Woven samples by Jane Stafford using fingering, cobweb, and sport weights. Read more about Jane and her school of weaving here www.schoolofweaving.tv
Samples above created from past colour collections.
MANTA RAY KNITTING PATTERN
BY JANNA MARIA VALLEE
FROM EVERLEA YARNS
Made with one skein of fingering weight Naturally Dyed Organic Linen.
COBWEB
NATURALLY DYED CONES
Cobweb Full colour collection
Wholesale lot offered at a 50% discount
18 colours / 5 cones of each colour / 90 cones total.
COBWEB
WHITE AND NATURAL COLOUR CONES
Pack of 5 offered at a 15% discount
Pack of 10 offered at a 30% discount
(All cones in packs come in the same colour and weight).
LACE, FINGERING, SPORT
NATURALLY DYED SKEINS
Full colour collection wholesale lot offered at a 50% discount
18 colours / 5 skeins of each colour / 90 skeins total.
(All skeins in a wholesale lot come in the same colour and weight).
LACE, FINGERING, SPORT
WHITE & NATURAL COLOURED SKEINS
Pack of 5 offered at a 15% discount
Pack of 10 offered at a 30% discount
(All skeins in packs come in the same colour and weight).
To our U.S. customers – don't forget that the exchange rate works in your favour, it's like an extra discount.
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