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Posted 1/28/2009 6:21pm by Eugene Wyatt.
New Sport Weight
We are using a new spinnery. Green Mountain Spinnery of Putney, Vermont has spun new weights and styles of yarn for us:
- Sport Weight—2 ply, 1500 yd./lb.
- Lace Weight—2 ply, 2100 yd./lb.
- Bulky Weight—1 ply, 340 yd./lb.
These yarns spun at Green Mountain are strong and well finished. The employee/owners handle consigned wool with care and take pride in the yarns they spin. I am pleased they have spun a new and stronger version of our most popular yarn:
- Double Twist Worsted Weight—1 ply, 1000 yd./lb.
This Saturday we will have the new, yet to be dyed, yarns at the stand in Union Square. We will begin dyeing it at the farm this coming week with a new line of ecologically conscious dyes from Greener Shades, along with our natural colors from Earthues.
Here are some photos I took at the spinnery of the old machinery; much of it put into service here in New England in the early 20th century but since abandoned as scrap metal by the globalized spinning industry as it chased profits south to the Carolinas, then off-shore to mainland China; that is still in good use at Green Mountain.
The Card
The Spinning Frame
The Skeining Machine
Posted 9/19/2008 8:40am by Eugene Wyatt.
Old Fustic, Light & Dark
Fall is here. We’ve been busy dyeing and over-dyeing yarn this week. We will have 20 new natural colors at the stand in Union Square this weekend, madders, osages, cochineals with combinations and indigo overdyes of them—a prism of hues.
In the coming weeks I will upload photos of the new colors to the Yarn Store and post future installments of the Natural Dye Workshop.
Posted 12/4/2007 11:28am by Eugene Wyatt.
18 pounds of dyed in the wool black were carded with 60 pounds of undyed natural wool to produce this heather gray. Carding is the mixing step that must occur before the wool is spun into yarn on a spinning frame.