Merino and mulberry silk combed top for felting or spinning | 100g

Description A seriously soft blend. This merino and mulberry silk combed top is dreamy – the black and white merino wool is blended to create an optical grey, and the soft dusky pinks and hints of blue of the silk are simply the cherry on top.This 80/20 fibre blend is lovely whether you’re spinning or felting, but I do recommend you’re a little more experienced if spinning (due to the silk content that makes it a bit “slippery.”)The merino is non-mulesed and Oeko-Tex 100 certified, making it ethical and traceable.Look here if you’d rather have a more down-to-earth grey wool fibre. Is this fibre a wool top or a roving? I hope you think this is a good question, because there is definitely a difference between combed wool top and roving. Both expressions are often used to represent the same item, but they are quite different. In fact, I am inserting this explanation here so I can use the expression “wool roving” correctly and still please the search algorithm gods. Sneaky.Combed wool top such as this are processed in the mill to remove the short fibre staples, and all the longer remaining fibres have been combed to face the same direction.Wool roving, on the other hand, still retains some shorter fibres and not all face the same direction, so it will have a fuzzier appearance.Both are fantastic types of fibre processing, they’re just different. Colour Disclaimer The photos reflect the colours of this merino and mulberry silk combed top accurately on my end, but please bear in mind your monitor settings might not be the same as mine. Related