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Texere Troon Aran Wool Felted Bag & Purse Knitting Pattern 004

£1.50

Here is a knitting pattern for a felted bag and purse using Texere Troon Tweed aran. The yarn is used double for the bag meaning you'll have it knitted up in no time and the little purse only uses one ball - so great, quick gifts. The transformation of the non-felted bag when you take it out of the washing machine is brilliant and the rigidity of the bag means it doesn't even need lining! All the shades of Troon are marled or tweedy, so even if you don't want stripes you could achieve a lovely textured effect with very little effort.
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China Blue 1237 - Destiny

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C4 Linen - Cerise Marble

£6.12

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Serenity Super Chunky by Wendy - 1708 Teal

£3.52

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In Action DVD - Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn

£19.99

In this 2-hour DVD, Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn share their thoughts and experiences of creating sketches through to beautiful textiles. Known around the world for their textile art and creative workshops, Jan and Jean demonstrate a variety of techniques including: fabric paints, dyes, embellishing, knitting, foiling, soluble film, hand and machine stitching. Educational and Inspiring,
IN ACTION is suitable for the beginner and professional textile artist interested in embroidery, quilting arts, surface design and fabric art. A perfect accompaniment to the "Stitchscapes" book as many of the pieces Jan and Jean work on are illustrated in the book. It's great to see how they have been created and see and hear the authors design processes and techniques in "real life".
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Amica Thistle Ring - Candyfloss

£5.65

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Knotting & Macrame Yarns

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Islay by Texere - wool & nylon mix
Islay is spun from 90% wool with 10% nylon for strength making it an excellent yarn for all types of crafts. It is available in a wide range of bright colours with a gentle hint of natural lustre. Islay is particularly good for weaving in both the warp and weft, and is also ideal for tapestry and tablet weaving. It will make strong braids and cords and can be used for different types of jewellery and knotting. Knit or crochet into very fine wraps, throws and accessories. 2/18wc, 20/2nm or approx 1ply (or laceweight) with 1820m per cone, making it similar, but much finer than Jura.
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Rat Tail Cord - Pure Polyester
Now available on large spools. You may know it as rat's tail, rats tail, rattail, rat tail, mouse tail, satin cord, chinese knotting cord, but whatever your description at last we have the stuff! This is a gorgeous lustrous polyester cord to use for a multitude of crafts.
Pure Polyester
Approx 2.5mm wide round cord. Available on 5m skeins and 220m spools. The equivalent meterage in skeins would cost £110, but we are offering these large spools at just £60 - a fantastic saving and excellent if you need a large amount of one colour! (These large spools may need to be ordered, please check with us for details).
Paint the white with silk paint to create your own unique colours.
A perfect yarn to use for macrame, Chinese and Celtic knotting, an ideal necklace, jewellery or spectacle cord, couch into embroidery, make braids. It's versatile, shiny, holds it's shape well went knotted, but has a gentle drape - an all round excellent yarn! Children will love the fluorescent colours for jewellery and friendship bracelets.
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Recycled Cotton Cord
A strong undyed recycled cotton yarn, for warp, piping cord, macrame, and general crafts
Types 6, 8, 10 & 12 available
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Lancashire Cotton Best Twist
High twist pure cotton warp yarn, also ideal for knotting and macrame.
The cone gives you a healthy discount and means far less knots in your work!
Three weights of very high twist, high quality cord perfect for warping, knotting, macrame and anything requiring a strong thread.
As tough and strong as they come! Previously known as New Best Quality Loom Cord
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C4 Linen Collection
This is a fabulous recycled pure linen yarn in lots of fabulous colours with a 24% discount when buying bulk quantities. An excellent yarn for weaving in the warp and weft, macrame and braiding, knitting and crochet. This strong yarn is also excellent for braids and tassels and any project needing a strong yarn in rich, muted shades or subtle neutrals. The yarn is fairly crisp and has little drape making it excellent for knitting or crocheting into vessels, placements and bags.

However, knit or crochet it into garments, throw in the washing machine and tumble drier and it transforms into a soft, wearable yarn. We've also designed a brilliant string bag to create your very own "bag for life". One spool will make two bags - see the patterns section of the site for more details.

Originally this yarn was 4 fold 10's metric. However, there were only 5 shades (Connemara) and there was demand for more colours. We have now added more, but some of these recent yarns are finer than the originals. This means that the yarns may, in some cases, be of differing thicknesses from colour to colour - equivalent to approx 10/4 - 10/3nm and the meterage per spool is between 900m-1200m.
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Natural Pure Linen - Fancy
New colours now added!! A small range of good, tough, natural coloured pure linen ideal for use as a warp, also great for knotting and macrame.
Pure Natural Linen with flecks, slubs and hairy, knobbly bits!!
Heavy twist - under 1000m per cheese of minimum 400g.
Suitable for home dyeing - you will receive unusual effects as some linens have more colours than others and there are light and dark flecks, so great experimental opportunities.
Fantastic for any job needing a strong yarn whether in the garden or around the house. Use for macrame, knotting crafts, braids, tassels and all types of weaving.
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Good Fortune Cotton
A 4ply thickness pure soft cotton yarn in a wide range of colours ideal for knitting and weaving
100% pure soft cotton. Cool hand wash, dry flat and cool iron.
4ply (4/12 wc) thickness - 850m per cone, 40m per spool.
This cotton yarn is made exclusively for us and dyed to our specific colour scheme covering soft and subtle through to bright rich shades. The Double Top Cotton Yarn compliments this range perfectly.
This is a great all round craft yarn and as well as being perfect for knitting and crochet it is also excellent for weaving and knotting crafts as it has a soft, but strong handle.
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Double Top Cotton
A double knitting thickness pure soft cotton in a wide range of colours ideal for knitting and weaving. We have a few colours that are specials and will not be dyed again. There is plenty of all of them in stock, but please call us if you need to know specific quantities available - they are marked **
100% pure soft cotton. Cool hand wash, dry flat and cool iron.
Double Knitting (4/6 wc) thickness - 410m per cone, 20m per spool.
This yarn is made exclusively for us and dyed to our specific colour scheme covering soft and subtle through to bright rich shades. The Good Fortune compliments this range perfectly.
This is a great all round craft yarn and as well as being perfect for knitting and crochet it is also excellent for weaving and knotting crafts as it has a soft, but strong handle.
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Dublin Linen Best Twist
*New Colour*
High twist pure linen warp yarn also ideal for knotting, macrame and tough jobs.
100% Pure Linen: 12 ends per inch
18/12cc - 60m per spool or 300m per cone. The cone gives you a healthy discount and means far less knots in your work!
A very high twist, high quality cord perfect for warping, knotting, macrame and anything requiring a strong thread.
As tough and strong as they come! A real exclusive to Texere Yarns of this fantastic new yarn.

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Warp Cotton
An undyed carded cotton yarn ideal for many craft uses & strong enough to use as a warp yarn.
100% Carded Cotton - unscoured
8/8cc - 600m per cone - 18 ends per inch
A strong cotton to use as a warp yarn and also for dyeing
An ideal yarn for use in the garden & around the house

400g cone £6.12

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White Linen - Fine
Please ensure you order enough linen to complete your project as we cannot guarantee that the next batch will be exactly the same.
Fine twist - minimum 400g - over 1300m - approx 18 ends per inch
Suitable for home dyeing with procion or fibre reactive dyes.
Fantastic for any job needing a strong yarn whether in the garden or around the house. Use for macrame, knotting crafts, braids, tassels and all types of weaving.
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White Linen - Medium
A good, tough, white, recycled pure linen ideal for use as a warp, knotting and macrame.
100% Pure Natural Linen. We specialise in using recycled linen yarns to twist into our linen yarns. The weights of these vary from batch to batch along with the colour and character which may be white or cream, smooth or hairy. Hence the necessity for stating a wide ranging meterage of yarn on these spools. Please ensure you order enough linen to complete your project as we cannot guarantee that the next batch will be exactly the same.
Medium twist - minimum 400g - 850m to 1300m - approx 15 ends per inch
Suitable for home dyeing with procion or fibre reactive dyes.
Fantastic for any job needing a strong yarn whether in the garden or around the house. Use for macrame, knotting crafts, braids, tassels and all types of weaving.
Per cheese £6.12

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White Linen - Heavy
A good, tough, white, recycled pure linen ideal for use as a warp, knotting and macrame.
100% Pure Natural Linen. We specialise in using recycled linen yarns to twist into our linen yarns. The weights of these vary from batch to batch along with the colour and character which may be white or cream, smooth or hairy. Hence the necessity for stating a wide ranging meterage of yarn on these spools. Please ensure you order enough linen to complete your project as we cannot guarantee that the next batch will be exactly the same.
Heavy twist - minimum 400g - 400m to 800m - approx 12 ends per inch
Suitable for home dyeing with procion or fibre reactive dyes.
Fantastic for any job needing a strong yarn whether in the garden or around the house. Use for macrame, knotting crafts, braids, tassels and all types of weaving.

Per cheese £6.12

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Natural Pure Linen - Fine
A good, tough, natural coloured, recycled pure linen ideal for use as a warp, knotting and macrame.
100% Pure Natural Linen. We specialise in using recycled linen yarns to twist into our natural linen yarns. The weights of these vary from batch to batch along with the colour and character which may be lighter or darker, smooth or hairy. Hence the necessity for stating a wide ranging meterage of yarn on these spools. Please ensure you order enough linen to complete your project as we cannot guarantee that the next batch will be exactly the same. If you require a regular, repeatable linen we suggest choosing the Dublin which is made to our specifications with first quality linen.
Fine twist - minimum 400g - over 1500m - approx 18 ends per inch
Suitable for home dyeing - you will receive a slightly muted shade as the linen has quite a lot of natural colour, but this makes for interesting, subtle effects.
Fantastic for any job needing a strong yarn whether in the garden or around the house. Use for macrame, knotting crafts, braids, tassels and all types of weaving.
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Natural Pure Linen - Medium
A good, tough, natural coloured, recycled pure linen ideal for use as a warp, knotting and macrame.
100% Pure Natural Linen. We specialise in using recycled linen yarns to twist into our natural linen yarns. The weights of these vary from batch to batch along with the colour and character which may be lighter or darker, smooth or hairy. Hence the necessity for stating a wide ranging meterage of yarn on these spools. Please ensure you order enough linen to complete your project as we cannot guarantee that the next batch will be exactly the same. If you require a regular, repeatable linen we suggest choosing the Dublin which is made to our specifications with first quality linen.
Medium twist - minimum 400g - 1000m to 1500m - approx 15 ends per inch
Suitable for home dyeing - you will receive a slightly muted shade as the linen has quite a lot of natural colour, but this makes for interesting, subtle effects.
Fantastic for any job needing a strong yarn whether in the garden or around the house. Use for macrame, knotting crafts, braids, tassels and all types of weaving.
Per cheese £6.12

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Jute
An extremely strong natural fibre ideal for warps and macrame.
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450g cone £5.39

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