Why natural dyes?

Our commitment to the environment leads us to work only with natural dyes and mordants extracted from plants, minerals, fruits, seeds, etc.

We dye each skein by hand, following techniques and procedures with a low environmental impact.

Natural dyeing is a way of expression through colour, which gives each skein a unique character.

Our fibres represent emotions transmitted through colour.

The natural colour source is alive and unique, so the differences in tone in the skeins are indicative of the unique piece you will create with them.

Defining a colour is a slow and delicate process, a journey of discovery in which nature offers us its most subtle, suggestive, intense and powerful shades.

The way in which colour develops is unpredictable and small variations in tone can occur over time, which should be considered as unmistakable marks of nature.

A continuous change, slow, paused, always evolving and moving, like life itself.

Each skein is unique

The imprint of nature will always be in the skein in a genuine way, so that you can feel it in your hands while you are knitting.

Each skein is unique, not only because of the manual dyeing process, but also because of the origin of the pigment.

This is what really makes the alchemy of dyeing so amazing and therefore everything you knit with our yarns.

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About indigo

Indigo-dyed fibres may bleed or stain your hands and needles while knitting.

This is completely normal as some of the indigo molecules are released by friction (you have a clear example with the jeans). Once you wash your hands, the blue stains disappear.

When mixing colours with indigo, these loose molecules do not usually bleed, although, as always and especially when working with very saturated colours, we recommend knitting and washing a small swatch.

All the blue colours you find in the shop are dyed with indigo, as well as some others that we over-dye in other colours to broaden the palette. For example, we obtain some greens by giving yellows an indigo bath.

Care

We only work with plants with a proven high wash and light fast. W also pay special attention to one of the most important phases of natural dyeing: mordanting, a process prior to the color bath that prepares the fibres to absorb the dye and assist color to remain fixed.

Therefore, we recommend washing your garments by hand, with a pH-neutral soap (such as Eucalan, which also does not need rinsing) and let them dry in the shade on a flat surface.

Natural dyes are very sensitive to pH, so it is important to follow this recommendation to keep the colours unchanged.

However, some pigments may vary slightly in tone over time precisely because the natural colour remains "alive". This is the beauty of nature.

Also, wash your garments only when necessary, many times simply airing them is enough for the fibers to regenerate.