WOOLS AND YARNS AVAILABLE:
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ANGORA RABBIT WOOL(soon) |
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CASHMERE(eventually!) |
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ALPACA:
Wellground Champagne DK - a stunning light fawn, created from selected fleeces of natural white and light fawn. This wonderful natural champagne shade is super soft and a real pleasure to knit. Hand wash only. |
50g ball
£4.95 each (35 balls left of 2007 clip) reduced to £3.95 to clear. 2008 clip will be lighter! |
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| West Country Alpaca: DK - Chantilly Cream, similar to above, a little lighter. Lovely cream soft fawn alpaca wool from farms located in Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Wiltshire.Hand wash only |
50g ball per ball £4.95 (only 7 left - all 5 for £30.00, plus postage) |
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Alpaca DK - super soft wool from Peru dyed to the softest vintage pink, dusky blue, red, royal blue, damson ,grey merle, other colours available to order. email or ring for further information (orange, lime green, old yellow, peach, rust, sage green turquiose etc 48 colours in total) Also available in 4ply see below (Hand wash only).
(£2.95 for shade cards) |
50g ball
£3.95 |
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Alpaca 4ply - creamy super soft from the finest herds in Peru - Cream (natural shade undyed) Hand wash only |
50gm ball
£3.95 |
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Alpaca 4ply - Soft Blue, (dyed - from Peru) Hand wash only |
50g ball (blue only 7 left of this dye lot)
£3.95 |
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| Cobweb lace extra fine Superb cobweb lace alpaca yarn, ultra fine for those special projects. Ideal for christening gowns, shawls prem baby clothes and evening shawls, also ideal for lace collars and edgings. Creamy natural white Hand wash only |
25g skein
£4.95 each (total 178gms only) Special offer £30 for lot - save £5 |
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Hand Dyed, British Alpaca -Russet, (reddy, brown), Petrol, very deep bluey green, 4ply
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£3.50 per 50gm ball ( petrol =10 available and Russet = 9 balls available) |
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Hand spun, hand dyed, double lace weight multi-coloured ALPACA in shades of lilac or pinks,
super soft and fine alpaca |
75gms only of each, £9.95 per shade or £17 for both skeins (unrepeatable, one off, item) |
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| BABY LLAMA by MIRASOL no 74934, stunning saxe blue(forgetmeknot), other colours available if interested - one of the softed wool I have felt this year! Difficult to get hold of and rather expensive, but true luxuary! Stunning! Will try to get some more and a range of colours . Baby Aran weight. |
50gm hanks £7.00 per hank
(only 4 available, first come, first served!) |
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| 2008 SHEARING!!! NEW SEASON'S FLEECE JUST OFF TO MILL -STUNNINGLY SOFT CREAMY WHITE DK ON ITS WAY IN THE AUTUMN! FROM OUR OWN STUD MALE ALEXANDER AND OUR FRIENDS ALPACAS IN DEVON - SUPER SOFT, FINE FLEECES AND KNITTING WOOL FROM BRITISH, CHILEAN AND AUSTRALIAN ALPACA HERDS BASED IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND. WE SHALL ALSO STOCK THE NEW WELLGROUND CLIP, AS WELL AS WOOL FROM M&M, DREAMFIELD AND LAUREL FARM ALPACAS IN A STUNNING RANGE OF NATURAL COLOURS AND PLYS. |
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| IF YOU WOULD LIKE ME TO STOCK YOUR BRITISH BRED ALPACA, BABY LLAMA, ANGORA, MERINO, BLUE-FACED LEICESTER, OR NATIVE BREED WOOL (EITHER HAND SPUN, HAND DYED OR NATURAL MINI MILL SPUN) EMAIL ME OR PHONE ME WITH DETAILS OR SEND ME A SAMPLE - SEE CONTACT PAGE FOR DETAILS. |
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We make a very special and exclusive range of vintage style baby clothes called ALPACA ANGELS in the finest alpaca wool. Baby and young alpaca fleece  spins into delightfully soft, silky baby wool  with a beautiful sheen. Once knitted into delicate little garments based on vintage styles, they make an unforgettable gift for that precious new arrival or a unique christening present . These are based on patterns which are part of my collection of over a thousand covering late Victorian to 1970s
Each tiny garment is hand knitted by myself, and is entirely unique. Each fleece being as individual as its former wearer. Photos and information about the particular animal the fleece came from and how to wash and care for your garment will be sent with each order. All items are beautifully presented in gold and white tissue paper and gold coloured ribbon..
We also now make a delightful range of hand knitted baby clothes in pure wools, with (or without )vintage angora trim from bonnets, bootees, dresses and matinee coats to rompers and buster suits! See RETRO BABY for BOTH ranges. We are in the process of updating our site - there will be more baby clothes, many more buttons, and lots and lots more patterns!
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PURE SHEEP WOOL AND VINTAGE ANGORA: For vintage patterns - 50g ball is a little more than 2oz
100% CASHMERE on its way soon
Modern 3ply is more like vintage 2ply, and modern 4ply is similar to old 3ply - always work a tension square in a spare ball of ply required. Always order enough for project with some to spare as dye lots cannot be repeated and natural animal fleeces vary from year to year and from animal to animal. We always buy back odd balls over 10gms if over estimated. Vinatge wool is rare and therefore we are unable to repeat the offers below. We shall put vintage wool up on the site when we are able to get it - what you see is all we have! |
ANGORA Patons Fuzzy Wuzzy:VINTAGE, rare find! Beautiful shades in soft rabbit wool from the 1950's 1/2 oz balls (10gms)
knits as 4ply, hand wash only, lovely for trimming Alpaca or Patons pure baby wool. Goes a long way! pure luxury!
lemon (2 only), lilac (6 balls only) old rose (5 balls) lime green (i ball only) |
£6.00 per10gm ball 55% angora 45% pure wool (photo coming soon!) |
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| ANGORA Jaeger VINTAGE from the 1980's in snowly white, knits as 4ply, hand wash only, lovely to trim alpaca or pure wool for babies or make bolero's, bonnets etc - See baby and children's patterns and Ladies for hats and jumpers etc. goes a long way! suberbly soft! |
£6.00 per 20gm ball 70% angora, 30%pure wool (14 balls available) |
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| ANGORA Jaeger VINTAGE from 1980's in Canary yellow, as above |
£6.00 per 20grm ball 70% angora, 30% pure wool (8 balls available) |
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| 100% PURE NEW SCOTTISH BRED ANGORA: BUNNY WOOL, MODERN VERSION OF FUZZY WUZZY, BUT 100% PURE RABBIT. |
!!!!! ON IT'S WAY SOON !!!!!
IN 50GM BALLS MANY LOVELY SHADES |
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| ANGORA hand dyed, British bred, coral pink/white mix. Hand wash only - knits as 4ply - stunning knitted up, suitable for vintage patterns or modern patterns. NEW |
£8.00 per 30gm balls 100% ANGORA
(8 balls all same dye lot) (photo coming soon!) |
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| Patons Baby pure wool - 3ply soft, white wool, fine and light. Lovely to knit babies first clothes. Similar to vintage 2ply for colours see below. machine washable New Wool Made in Italy |
25g
£2.75 each (old style- whiter) 60 balls left |
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| Patons Baby pure wool - 2ply, soft, very fine white wool, ideal for shawls and christening gowns, finer than vintage 2ply machine washable. New Wool |
25g
£2.75 each (old style- finer) 20 balls left |
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Patons Fairytale Dreamtime 3ply pure wool, machine washable baby pink, baby blue, pale lemon, cream, mint New Wool. ALL Patons pure machine washable baby wool available to order shortly - shade cards on request Made in Australia.. |
£2.95 per 50gm ball (PHOTOS COMING SOON) |
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| Pure New Wool- DK pale pink from China lovely and soft for baby Hand wash only. |
50gm balls £2.50 per ball (10 available) |
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| Pure New Wool - DK lavender nice soft, full rounded wool Hand wash only |
100gm hanks, (can wind into balls if required.) £4.50 per hank |
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| Pure Merino Wool - 3ply, soft, anti-tickle, from British mill. natural ivory |
£2.50 per 50gm ball (8 available at present) |
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| Jaeger Merino 4ply - machine washable pure wool in a mint (lot 02) |
50g
2 only £2.65 |
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| Jaeger Baby Merino 4ply - lovely and soft pure wool. Soft yellow(Shade 0105 lot no 26A0) |
50g (3 only)
£2.65 each |
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| Jaeger Baby Merino 4ply - Soft pure wool, soft blue. (Shade 0107 lot no 27C0) |
50g (3 only)
£2.65 each |
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| Jaeger Baby Merino 4ply - lovely and soft, creamy white. (Shade 0103 lot 11E0) |
50g (2 only)
£2.65 each |
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| Jaeger Baby Merino DK - Soft yellow (lot 2700) |
50gms balls (3 only) £2.65 each |
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| British Bluefaced Leicester - beautifully soft aran weight pure natural wool |
50g (2 only) £15 for 2 |
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WOOL FOR BABY CLOTHES, DOLL'S CLOTHES AND SMALL PROJECTS.
ALL 100 PER CENT PURE WOOL UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE. VINTAGE AND NEW. By its very nature vintage wool is difficult to get hold of and is limited supply. I try to get amounts that will make a single garment, but often it is the odd oz ball - but this will make bootees, trim a bonnet or matinee coat and can be a joy to knit with - it is easy to convert modern yarns to match the old patterns, but I do try to get vintage wool that will work even better. It is always a good idea to knit with old pre-decimal needles when working from these old patterns as the decimal ones were a slightly different size. (early decimals were slightly different too!) If you need a conversion chart, or to convert to US sizes we shall have chart on the NEEDLE AND ACCESSORIES page coming soon! We shall have a supply very shortly including lovely old plastic ones, so easy on the hands! Extra long to extra short! In the mean time if you require old needles email or give me call to see what I have.
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| Pure new wool 2ply and 3ply Patons baby wool - white |
25g balls £2.75 each (also vintage patons available, see below) |
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| Pure new wool 2ply - fine 2ply from Forsells in 25 g balls ideal for smaller dolls and trimming baby clothes - pepermint (very pale), mid-pink, Sage green, mushroom, dark cream, light blue, bluebell |
25g balls £1.65 each (photos coming soon) Can be sold in 50gm balls if required £3.20 a ball |
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| Pure new wool 3ply - fine 3ply wool in a wide range of colours in handy 25g balls for dolls clothes and trimming, -narural white, mid-pink, sage green, navy, pale peach (botany) |
25g balls £1.65 each Can be sold in 50gm balls if required £3.20 a ball |
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Some colours are difficult to get now as Forsells no longer make pure 2ply or 3ply wool. Please allow 21 days for large quantities to be ordered. The colours below can still be ordered. (hopefully!) but I do not keep them in stock - wine, amethyst, red, yellow, bottle green, royal blue, camel, oatmeal, old gold, light grey, brown, black. (I do have the odd 1oz ball of some of these for dolls and bears clothes please ask.) |
Soft 2ply cotton for doll's clothes now in stock,
lovely to knit with and keeps it's shape well.
15g balls at £1.25 each. Present stock : cream, white, red, pink, blue, sage, mint, more to follow.
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VINTAGE WOOL AS AVAILABLE
Most really old wool was sold in a hank or skein prior to 1950's, as we have a wool winder we can convert hanks into balls, easily without streching th wool, if requested - some if it has been tangled so will be atomatically wound into balls and banded. We do not sell USED wool unless sold in bargain bags and then it is stated on bag.
Photographs to follow very soon!- samples available on request
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| Vintage Patons 3ply fingering in blue pure wool |
1oz balls (28.35gms) £2.00 each (10 available) |
| Vintage 4ply pure wool: shell pink, natural white |
1oz balls (4only) of each £2.00 each |
| Vintage Dream Touch angora/wool: saxe blue (finer than modern Angora) |
1/2oz balls £4.50 each (10 only) £40.00 for all together |
| Vintage Botany Baby Wool : white 3ply |
1oz balls (2 only)£2.00 each |
| Vintage pure wool: 3ply baby pink |
1oz balls (or hanks) £3.00 each (5 balls) |
| Vintage pure wool: 2ply baby pink |
1oz balls (or hamks) £3.00 each (2 only) |
| Vintage Pure Welsh wool: DK bluebell |
1oz balls (or hanks) £1.50 each cand wind to 50 gm balls ( 5X50gm balls/10 25gm balls) |
| Vintage Pure Welsh wool: 4ply dark peachy tweed (ideal for doll skirts or jackets) |
1oz balls (3 only) £1.00 each |
| Vintage Glender DK blue/grey/cream/lt blue/ multi pure wool |
1 oz balls (4 only) £1.50 each |
| Vintage pure wool: Dusky green 3ply (great for 1930's doll's clothes) |
1oz balls £2.00 (3 balls) |
| Vintage pure wool: old soft pink 3ply (great for 1930's doll's clothes) |
1oz balls £2.00 (3 balls) |
| Vintage pure wool: natural white (cream) 2ply (very fine) |
1oz balls (or hank) £2.00 each (2 only) |
| Vintage King Cole pure wool: natural white (cream) 3ply (modern 4ply) in hanks (softer than modern King Cole wools - hand wash only) Also in old baby pink |
1oz hanks (5 only) £1.50 each pink 1 oz hanks (4 0nly) |
Vintage 2ply (modern 3ply) in hanks various shades of pink = dusty pink,
baby pink,
old pink
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2oz hank, (roughly 50gms) £1.50 per oz hank
3oz hank,(roughly 75gms £1.50 per oz hank
6oz hank (roughly 150gms) £1.50 per oz hank
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| Vintage King Cole pure wool: natural white (cream) DK ( softer than modern King Cole pure wools! ) |
1oz balls (or hank) £1.50 each ( 4 only) different lot no (4 only) |
| vintage vest pure wool fine 2ply cream |
7oz approx ( hank ) £3.00 per oz or £18 the lot |
| Pearsels labed vest wool -pale pink |
just over 1oz (28gms) £3.50 |
| Vintage unlabled vest wool 3ply pink |
2x 1oz hanks £6 for both |
| Vintage Ladyship 3ply pure wool cream |
2oz hank £4.50 |
| Vintage 3ply (slightly discoloured) cream pure wool |
4 x 1oz hanks £4.50 lot |
| Botany Baby Wool cream |
2 x1oz balls £2.00 each ball |
| Vintage Emu unshrikable pure wool: Blue 3ply? |
1oz balls £2.00 each (3 only) |
| Vintage Bairnswear pure Baby Wool: 3ply skeins |
1oz skein (2 only ) £3.00 each |
| Vintage Clipper wool/nylon mix: blue |
1oz balls (or hank) £1.00each (4 only) |
| Vintage pure wool : 4ply purple and blue mix |
1 x 32gm hank (or skein) £1.50 |
| Vintage Jaeger crinkle spun pure wool: creamy white - great for trimming 3ply wool baby clothes! |
1oz skein (2 only) £3.50 each |
| Vintage Kiwi pure wool: 4ply pale lilac (clover colour) |
1oz balls £2.00 each (4 balls only) |
| Vintage Coats ORLON baby : 3ply bright yellow |
1oz ball £1.50 x 2 balls |
| Vintage Sirdar crepe wool: 4ply white |
1oz balls (5 only) £1.50 each |
| Vintage Patons pure baby wool: 3ply white (little thicker than modern 3ply, lovely to knit with, very soft, ivory white) |
1oz balls £2.00 (7 of one dye lot plus several lots of 4 balls of same dye lot 18 balls in all) |
| Vintage Littlewoods tricel/nylon mix crepe : white |
20gms (5 0nly)£1.00 each |
| Vintage NYLON Quicknit: white |
1oz only £2.50 |
| Vintage NYLON Quicknit pink |
1oz only £2.50 |
| vintage Emu NYLON 3ply white |
1oz only £2.00 |
| vintage Hermit NYLON 3ply - neon pink (very bright!) |
1oz balls x 4 |
| Vintage Lee Target NYLON 3ply - bright peach |
1oz balls x 4 |
| vintage Lister Nursery Time QUICKNIT lemon |
1 oz balls x 6 |
| Vintage Emu Treasure DK COURTELLE white |
1 oz balls x 6 |
| Vintage DK crepe white |
1oz balls x 3 |
| Vintage PATONS BRI NYLON 2ply (nearer modern 3ply) |
20gm balls x3 |
| VintageFalcon pure wool: 4ply lavender pink |
50gms (2 only ) £1.50 each |
| Vintage Hermit 3ply biscuit |
25gms (7 only) £1.00 each |
| Vintage Patons : kismet,Ecru, and another mohair mix in Pink and another in silver grey Great for Sindy, Barbie evening wear etc (probably knits to 4ply) |
116 grams in total (1980's yarn) £1.50 the lot |
| Vintage Patons Pearl acrylic: 4ply silky pink |
50gms £1.50 (only 1 left) |
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| Mohair/wool : 4ply - 50 per cent wool, 50 per cent mohair, stunning white wool in 100g balls wonderful for bigger dolls or doll bedding. |
100g x 5
£5.50 each |
| KID MOHAIR |
| ICE Mohair yarns - Stunning ice white kid mohair from Turkey. So fine and light. (80 percent mohair, 20 percent acrylic). Ideal for trimming and light airy shawls, shrugs and scarves.in 30g balls probably lace weight knit on fine needles for delicate fabric, knit on larger size for light airy items |
10 x 30g
£2.95 each Whole bag £20 plus postage. |
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Postage is charged at cost.
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If you have any questions - click HERE to email me -
or Telephone me (Sue) on 01985-217495
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