Crewel embroidery wool

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  • Individual Skeins and Hanks in nearly 100 Naturally Dyed Shades.

    Individual Skeins and Hanks

    Over 100 naturally dyed shades, available in two sizes: Skeins of 25m and Hanks of 250 m. Each dye lot, after being naturally dyed and washed, is wound into 25m lengths and labelled by hand. The skeins have a diameter of about 24 inches making cutting for embroidery simple.... more

  • Swatch Cards of our Two Naturally dyed Ranges

    Swatch Cards

    13 cards containing samples of the Main range , and the Elizabethan range . 100 shades in all.... more

    $27.84 (Swatch Card)

  •  27 Elizabethan Recipes for this Hand Dyed, Embroidery Thread Range

    Elizabethan Embroidery Range

    Renaissance Dyeing's hand dyed Elizabethan Range consists of 25 exciting new embroidery thread shades plus 2 from the existing naturally dyed range. They are hand dyed using the mordants and natural dyes available in the 16th century. The embroidery thread is the same high... more

    $38.42 (Elizabethan range)

  • Main Crewel Thread Range of 75 Naturally Dyed Shades

    Main Crewel Thread Range

    Different shades of this fine crewel yarn can be mixed together giving a unique vibrancy to your work, whether it be crewel embroidery, cross-stitch, tapestry, needlepoint, free style embroidery, lace knitting or weaving. As the hand dyed yarn is spun from long strands of l... more

    $110.75 (Main range)

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Socks

Voila! Socks knitted by Polly Van Bremmel using the bluefaced Leicester -Iris, here is what she has to say about the pattern she used and the yarn.

Cookie A Knit-a-long

Renaissance Dyeing is a sponsor for this months Cookie A, Sock Innovation, Knit-a-long (Kal)

Madder Compost

The sock yarn below was dyed not exactly on a compost heap but in buckets of left over dye stuffs that were left in the sun for a few weeks.

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