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Union Jack Large Plush Cushion Kit (Classic Colours)

Union Jack Large Plush Cushion Kit (Classic Colours)

£27.45

A fabulous cushion kit knitted from Texere Plush Chenille
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Dyed Wool Tops Mixed - Deepsea

Dyed Wool Tops Mixed - Deepsea

£4.50

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Picasso - 18 Tango.

Picasso - 18 Tango.

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Texere C4 Linen Bag for Life Crochet Pattern 021

Texere C4 Linen Bag for Life Crochet Pattern 021

£1.50

Bin those plastic bags and crochet your own bag that you can carry wherever you go. The bag is crocheted using a fishnet stitch that expands to hold lots of goodies (our picture shows 25 x 100g balls) and folds up into a small package that will fit in your handbag. Texere C4 linen is a strong yarn available in lots of colours and is a brilliant price, although you could use any 4ply/DK cotton or bamboo type yarn. Use for your shopping, your knitting or at the beach!
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Seriously Chunky Prints - Rosella 607

Seriously Chunky Prints - Rosella 607

£2.60

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Texere Variety Bag - Purple

Texere Variety Bag - Purple

£4.15

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Mirasol SulkaMirasol Sulka
Sulka is one of the Mirasol Collection of fairly traded yarns from Peru. It is a gorgeous chunky weight, lightly spun knitting yarn made from a luxurious combination of 60% merino wool, 20% alpaca and 20% silk in a lovely range of dark and dramatic colours. It is very soft to touch and when you look closely has other colours twisted into it to give extra depth. It should knit to most chunky patterns, but knit a tension square first or choose from the lovely patterns within the Mirasol Pattern books. Each season new colours are added as current shades are discontinued - these are marked with **.
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Sublime Cashmere Merino Silk DKSublime Cashmere Merino Silk DK
This lovely Sublime yarn is spun from a luxurious blend of 75% extra fine merino wool, 20% silk and 5% cashmere. We have combined the "Baby" and "Adult" ranges to show you the complete selection as the composition is exactly the same, giving you over 50 shades to choose from. Both are DK yarns, have the same soft, spiral twist and are perfect to wear next to the skin. The patterns are so stylish, and for all ages, that you'll want to knit everything! Sublime means..."of the highest or noblest nature" and I think that just about sums it up!
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Mango Moon Recycled Sari Silk
Mango Moon Recycled Sari Silk
*Reduced Price* - was £14.50. Unfortunately we are no longer able to obtain recycled sari silk from Mango Moon, but we do have another supplier who source their fair trade sari silk from India. This 100% sari silk yarn is made from the best quality recycled saris meaning it is lovely and soft and perfect for knitting and adding texture and interest to weaving, embroidery and braids. The silk comes from industrial weaving mills in India where it is then hand spun, giving women a way to work and earn money. It has a gorgeous sheen and a lightly twisted slightly uneven texture making each batch unique. As a result of this the skeins are measured by length, rather than weight, so weights may vary from batch to batch, but the skeins will always have a minimum of 150yd each.
150yd skein £9.99

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Wild Silk 2
Wild Silk 2
A pure bleached tussah silk noil ideal for weaving. This is soft handling, rough looking and a character filled demi-lustre thread.
100% Wild Silk bleached to a honey colour. Wash gently by hand in warm water with soap or detergent - can be dry cleaned. Don't wring out or agitate too much and dry flat.
11.3/2nm - 500m per cone - Knit as approx 3ply.
Suitable for home dyeing as the yarn is bleached - the result will be subtle heathery shades.
Weave in the warp or weft, knit by hand or machine or use for tassels, braids and embroidery.
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100g cone £1.97

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Wild Silk 4
Wild Silk 4
A pure bleached tussah silk noil ideal for weaving. This is soft handling, rough looking and a character filled demi-lustre thread.
100% Wild Silk bleached to a honey colour. Wash gently by hand in warm water with soap or detergent - can be dry cleaned. Don't wring out or agitate too much and dry flat.
11.3/4nm - 250m per cone - Knit as approx DK.
Suitable for home dyeing as the yarn is bleached - the result will be subtle heathery shades.
Weave in the warp or weft, knit by hand or machine or use for tassels, braids and embroidery.
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100g cone £1.97

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Wild Silk 8
Wild Silk 8
A pure bleached tussah silk noil ideal for weaving. This is soft handling, rough looking and a character filled demi-lustre thread.
100% Wild Silk bleached to a honey colour. Wash gently by hand in warm water with soap or detergent - can be dry cleaned. Don't wring out or agitate too much and dry flat.
11.3/8nm - 120m per cone - Knit as approx Aran.
Suitable for home dyeing as the yarn is bleached - the result will be subtle heathery shades.
Weave in the warp or weft, knit by hand or machine or use for tassels, braids and embroidery.
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100g cone £1.97

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Wild Silk 16
Wild Silk 16
A pure bleached tussah silk noil ideal for weaving. This is soft handling, rough looking and a character filled demi-lustre thread.
100% Wild Silk bleached to a honey colour. Wash gently by hand in warm water with soap or detergent - can be dry cleaned. Don't wring out or agitate too much and dry flat.
11.3/16nm - 60m per cone - Knit as approx chunky.
Suitable for home dyeing as the yarn is bleached - the result will be subtle heathery shades.
Weave in the warp or weft, knit by hand or machine or use for tassels, braids and embroidery.
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100g cone £1.97

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Thai Silk
Thai Silk
A double knitting thickness - textured pure silk yarn. Produced with a careful blend of Tussa & Mulberry silks, using both tops and noils
Wash gently, don't wring out or agitate too much and dry flat.
Double knitting thickness - 300m per cone
Knit by hand or Ideal for weaving (3/1 nm)
100g cone £11.90

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SS16 Spun Silk
SS16 Spun Silk
100% pure super spun silk
Weave, knit or crochet as 2ply. Use for luxurious braids and tassels or hand embroidery.
16/2nm (720m per cone)
Pure luxury. Wash gently by hand in warm water with soap or detergent - can be dry cleaned. Don't wring out or agitate too much and dry flat. This is also the silk used by Betty Barnden in her christening shawl pattern in "Crochet for Babies & Toddlers". It is now on 100g cones, so 3 cones are required to complete the pattern.

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SS8 Spun Silk
SS8 Spun Silk
A gorgeous 4ply pure super spun silk yarn for knitting or weaving. Available on cones or skeins that are perfect for dyeing to your own shades.
100% pure super spun silk
Weave, knit or crochet as 4ply. Use for luxurious braids and tassels or couch into embroideries.
8/2 nm (350m per cone)
Pure luxury. Wash gently by hand in warm water with soap or detergent - can be dry cleaned. Don't wring out or agitate too much and dry flat.

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SS5 Pure Super Spun Silk
SS5 Pure Super Spun Silk
A gorgeous double knitting pure super spun silk yarn for knitting or weaving. Available on cones or skeins that are perfect for dyeing to your own shades.
100% pure super spun silk
Weave, knit or crochet as DK. Use for chunky, luxurious braids or couch into embroideries.
5/2nm (220m per cone)
Pure luxury. Wash gently by hand in warm water with soap or detergent - can be dry cleaned. Don't wring out or agitate too much and dry flat.

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SS25 spun silk
SS25 spun silk
A gorgeous aran pure super spun silk yarn for knitting or weaving. Available on cones or skeins that are perfect for dyeing to your own shades.
100% pure super spun silk
Weave, knit or crochet as aran. Use for chunky, luxurious braids or couch into embroideries.
2.5/2nm (110m per cone)
Pure luxury. Wash gently by hand in warm water with soap or detergent - can be dry cleaned. Don't wring out or agitate too much and dry flat.

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Skye Two
Skye Two
An unusual blend of mulberry silk, cotton and cashmere. These noil yarns are soft handling, rough looking and filled with character.

90% Mulberry Silk, 5% Cotton Nepps and 5% Cashmere. Wash gently by hand in warm water with soap or detergent - can be dry cleaned. Don't wring out or agitate too much and dry flat.
10/2nm - 480m per cone - Knit as 3ply.
Use as seen or dye with acid dye to colour the silk, but leave the cotton untouched giving unique cross-dyeing effects.
The blend of fibres results in a yarn with good breaking strength and little stretch making it good to weave in the warp or weft.
100g cone £3.10

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Galaxy Silk 6
Galaxy Silk 6
A dramatic blend of black silk with coloured cotton highlights for knitting or weaving.
90% Mulberry Silk and 10% Bright Cotton Nepps. Wash gently by hand in warm water with soap or detergent - can be dry cleaned. Don't wring out or agitate too much and dry flat.
10/6nm - 150m per cone - Knit as a heavy DK or aran
Suitable for weaving in the warp or weft.
A really unusual luxurious yarn with a soft handle that can also be used in braids and tassels.
100g cone £3.10

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DY187 Bourette Silk
DY187 Bourette Silk
52% Silk, 34% viscose and 14% wool - wonderful cross dyeing possibilities and 460m per cone.
Suitable for home dyeing. These "DY" yarns are mainly discontinued lines and run-ends, unique, unrepeatable and often in short supply. Please order as quickly as possible to avoid disappointment.
All meterages are approximate and for guidance only.


100g cone £2.38

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Divine Mulberry Silk
Divine Mulberry Silk
A gorgeous tussah silk chenille yarn. Couch into textured embroideries or knit with this unusual yarn that can also be dyed.
Pure tussah silk - unusually this chenille has silk plush as well as a silk binder. Being tussah it has a lovely golden hue. Wash gently by hand in warm water with soap or detergent - can be dry cleaned. Don't wring out or agitate and dry flat.
4.5nm - approx 450m per cone. This chenille is approx a 4ply knitting weight.
Chenille is perfect when couched into embroideries to add a soft texture and will weave or knit into luxurious scarves and accessories.
This soft, lustrous yarn dyes beautifully, however, has been bleached in a prior process, so test dyeing should be performed to ensure the correct results.
**This yarn has been discontinued by our suppliers, so unfortunately when it's gone it's gone. Please contact us if you need stock information**

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Chinese 1617 Extra Thick Silk
Chinese 1617 Extra Thick Silk
A chunky thickness, undyed pure bourette silk ideal for knitting, weaving and embroidery
100% Bourette Silk. Wash gently by hand in warm water with soap or detergent - can be dry cleaned. Don't wring out or agitate too much and dry flat.
Chunky thickness - 100m per cone
Knit by hand or on a chunky machine
Suitable for weaving (17/16nm)
100g cone £3.10

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Chinese 817 Silk
Chinese 817 Silk
A DK thickness, undyed pure bourette silk ideal for knitting and weaving
100% Bourette Silk. Wash gently by hand in warm water with soap or detergent - can be dry cleaned. Don't wring out or agitate too much and dry flat.
DK thickness - 210m per cone
Knit by hand or on a chunky machine
Suitable for weaving (17/8nm)
100g cone £3.10

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Chinese 417 Silk
Chinese 417 Silk
A 4ply thickness, undyed pure bourette silk ideal for knitting and weaving
100% Bourette Silk. Wash gently by hand in warm water with soap or detergent - can be dry cleaned. Don't wring out or agitate too much and dry flat.
4ply thickness - 420m per cone
Knit by hand or on a standard gauge machine
Suitable for weaving (17/4nm)
100g cone £3.10

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Chinese 317 Silk
Chinese 317 Silk
A 3ply thickness, undyed pure bourette silk ideal for knitting and weaving
100% Bourette Silk. Wash gently by hand in warm water with soap or detergent - can be dry cleaned. Don't wring out or agitate too much and dry flat.
3ply thickness - 570m per cone
Knit by hand or on a standard gauge machine
Suitable for weaving (17/3nm)
100g cone £3.10

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Chinese 217 Silk
Chinese 217 Silk
A 2ply thickness, undyed pure bourette silk ideal for knitting and weaving
100% Bourette Silk. Wash gently by hand in warm water with soap or detergent - can be dry cleaned. Don't wring out or agitate too much and dry flat.
2ply thickness - 850m per cone
Knit on a standard gauge machine
Suitable for weaving (17/2nm)
100g cone £3.10

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Chinese 117 Silk
Chinese 117 Silk
A single thickness, undyed pure bourette silk ideal for knitting, lacework & weaving
100% Bourette Silk. Wash gently by hand in warm water with soap or detergent - can be dry cleaned. Don't wring out or agitate too much and dry flat.
Single thickness - 1700m per cone
Suitable for weaving (17/1nm)
100g cone £3.10

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Boudoir
Boudoir
A beautiful pure silk boucle. Perfect for couching into embroideries, knitting and ideal for dyeing.
Pure mulberry silk. Pure luxury. Wash gently by hand in warm water with soap or detergent - can be dry cleaned. Don't wring out or agitate too much and dry flat.
2.97nm - approx 300m per cone. This silk is halfway between a 4ply & DK thickness.
A yarn ideal for embroidery, knitting and weaving.
The loops and whorls of silk in this yarn make it a most unusual luxurious yarn to use.

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Bliss
Bliss
A glorious and smooth lopi silk yarn. Ideal for knitting or weaving and perfect for dyeing.
Pure mulberry silk. Pure luxury. Wash gently by hand in warm water with soap or detergent - can be dry cleaned. Don't wring out or agitate too much and dry flat.
1.5nm - approx 150m per cone. Knit as approx aran.
This thick, juicy yarn will knit up very quickly into luxurious garments or accessories.
This gleaming yarn dyes beautifully.

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