FREE: Hand Dyed British Ryeland Yarn

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Beautiful British Ryeland is dyed in aGental long and short strip pooling pattern

The Ryeland breed produces wool that, even in its untreated form, resists felting, so its ideal for heat process dyeing. -That doesn't mean you can be too rough with it though, its still pure wool!

Ryeland is one of the oldest English sheep breeds going back seven centuries when the monks of Leominster in Herefordshire bred sheep and grazed them on the rye pastures, giving them their name. It was introduced into Australia in 1919 and are classified as an endangered breed by the Rare Breeds Trust of Australia and also are one of the nine heritage breeds that were the foundation of the sheep and wool industry in Australia.

considered to have the finest wool of all British breeds of the time. Queen Elizabeth I was given 'Lemster' wool stockings and liked them so much that from then on she insisted only on 'Lemster' Ryeland wool. An Elizabethan observer wrote that 'among short-wools, Ryeland has pre-eminence with Leominster as the centre of its trade

100% British Ryeland Wool

100g per skein

208m/227yds approx.

All yarns are dyed using acid dyes and are thoroughly rinsed and washed before drying and reskeining, ensuring there are no knots

Colors are represented as best I can, but please remember that all monitors are different.

All yarns are hand dyed and therefore no two skeins are exactly the same.

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