naturalborndyers.com
NaturalBornDyers Yarns and Fibre
http://www.naturalborndyers.com/yarns.html
All our fibres are prepared and sold as batts produced by drum-carding. Most are provided as distinct colour-blocks or blocks of blended colour. We believe this presentation offers the most scope for creative spinning as the colours can be spun all together to give a highly variegated yarn or seperated out to give blocks of different colour in the finished yarn. Likewise the discete colours allow felters to seperate out the colours if so desired. British Breed Wool Fibre. Our current range of yarns are:.
naturalborndyers.com
NaturalBornDyers Stick Spinning
http://www.naturalborndyers.com/spurtzleurs.html
Spurtzleurs and Stick Spinning. We were first introduced to stick spinning by a lovely lady called Monique who hailed from Normandy. She had been invited to the 2011 NPWI show. By a friend to help with some weaving but also went round demonstrating a spinning technique to whoever she could corner for a couple of minutes. What was great about the technique was that people who had never got on with drop spindling picked it up rreally easily. Spurtzleurs, for us are the easiest way to learn to spin. At ...
naturalborndyers.com
NaturalBornDyers Home
http://www.naturalborndyers.com/home.html
Welcome to the Natural Born Dyers website. We are a small indie-dying business set up in early 2010 to offer high quality yarns and fibres dyed with natural dyes which we extract from plants. To find out more about us please browse the rest of our site. Please also check out our new(ish)blog that features dye experiments, visits to local farms and their flocks, show reports as well as news on the business. Click Here for Shop. All text and images © J.Booker 2010 unless otherwise stated.
naturalborndyers.com
NaturalBornDyers Project Photogallery
http://www.naturalborndyers.com/photogallery.html
Here are some photos of finished (or not! Items produced from our fibre and yarn. Knitted from 100g of Falkland Chunky in the 'Ice' colourway. Pattern by Woolly Wormhead. Available from Yarn Forward magazine (Issue22. Colour differences are due to the first photo being taken in artificial light and the second in natural sunlight. Yarn spun from 'Sunset' colourway batt. The fibre here was bluefaced leicester. It was spun on a Kromski Mazurka wheel and 2-plied to give the final yarn.
naturalborndyers.com
NaturalBornDyers News and Updates
http://www.naturalborndyers.com/links.html
Here are a selection of relevant links and other yarney stuff that we like. North Pennines Wool Initiative. A recently established group set up to promote wool, wool products and wool-related crafts in this region. Organises events for wool week and various woolly things and promotions. A good source for identifying local breeders. Tynedale Spinners Weavers and Dyers Guild. Massive woolfest that takes place at the end of June in Mitchell's livestock centre in Cockermouth. Organised by the Woolclip, a...
naturalborndyers.com
NaturalBornDyers Home
http://www.naturalborndyers.com/retail.html
Where to Find Our yarn and Fibre. We currently offer yarns and fibre for sale through three main channels. We currently sell a wide selection of yarn and fibre through our Etsy shop. This is updated roughly every month and also features the very occasional sale. Here are some examples from our most recent update. You can click on them to see the full listing or click on the link below to visit the full shop. Click Here for Shop. Email or phone and I can arrange cheque payment (UK only). A visitor attract...
naturalborndyers.com
NaturalBornDyers About Us
http://www.naturalborndyers.com/whynd.html
About Us and Our Ethos. We are small indie dying business set up in 2010 to produce high quality yarns and fibres dyed with natural dyes. As we both believe in the importance of living in a more sustainable mannner we decided to base the business around environmentally-conscious ideals and this is reflected in the materials we use to produce our yarns and fibres. We do not use dye extracts except for indigo, which unless we grow it ourselves, is only available in extract form. Our Yarn and Fibre. For pos...
naturalborndyers.com
NaturalBornDyers Care and Washing
http://www.naturalborndyers.com/care.html
Care and Washing of Naturally Dyed Yarn and Fibre. We only use natural dyes that are recorded as having good wash and light-fastness or have been shown to be relativly robust in our own tests. However naturally dyed materials may not be as robust as their synthetic equivalents, so some precautions are needed. However these are not significantly different from the precautions you need to take with natural fibes anyway. The key points are:. Naturally dyed fibre doesn't colour-bleed. As with all natural fib...
naturalborndyers.com
NaturalBornDyers News and Updates
http://www.naturalborndyers.com/latest.html
Details of our latest updates will be posted on this page. Sadly Not a Lot at the moment but we are currently loking at a big drive on shows this year so keep checking back to see where we will be. St Abb's Wool Festival, Saturday 1st March. The twice yearly event on the coast of the Scottish Borders returns bigger and better as it will now be spread over to buildings. More info can be found here. Rheged Knit and Stitch and Show. All text and images © J.Booker 2010 unless otherwise stated.
naturalborndyers.com
NaturalBornDyers Wooden Accessories
http://www.naturalborndyers.com/woodstuff.html
Wooden Accessories for the Spinner and Knitter. As well as dyeing wool and fibre we also now offer a variety of hand-turned wooden items for knitters and spinners. These have come about from a woodturning hobby that I took up to provide a bit of light relief from dyeing. The current range includes:. Our shawl pins are hand-turned from a variety of woods including both native and exotic hardwoods. They include a variety of shapes including some animal or plant motifs. Spurtzleurs aka Spinning sticks.
