Cumbria Sock Yarn Gen

Cumbria Alpaca Sock Yarn

This yarn is being unveiled at unravel 2019 at the Farnham Maltings next week.  This yarn is a blend of 47% British alpaca with 43% Blue Faced Leicester wool blended with 10% nylon.

We buy the Blue Faced Leicester wool from farms around the Yorkshire Dales and Cumbria, so this really is a local yarn.  We carefully skirt and grade each fleece at Town End.  This wool was then blended with white and coloured British alpaca fleeces which we clean and grade on a wire mesh over an old table tennis table.  The fleeces are mainly white but about 15% are black, fawn, brown and grey. The resulting natural oatmeal colour is a great base for the eight dyed shades:Aubergine, Turquoise, Pink, Olive, Mustard, Midnight, Grey and Rust.

After scouring (washing), carding, combing with the nylon and dyeing, all in West Yorkshire, the fibre was finally spun.  We have plied and hanked a small amount for hand-knitters – the rest is being knitted into socks for Arbon Socks…..

Blue Faced Leicester wool

Blue Faced Leicester sheep wool

White alpaca fleece

White alpaca fleece

Cumbria sock being spunAlpaca tops being spunCumbria sock yarn on cones

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