Ethiopian Handspun Cotton Yarn, Voca Peach + Natural Marled organic using imported cochineal extract

using imported cochineal extract

Not intended to be a toy

all created from organically dyed merino wool

Created from sisal and sweetgrass

Ethiopian Handspun Cotton Yarn, Voca Peach + Natural Marled organic using imported cochineal extractThis lovely marled cotton yarn is laboriously handspun on a drop spindle in Ethiopia by women working for a small cooperative comprised of single mothers. A single skein of yarn requires approximately 736 yards of handspun yarn. The yarn is then imported into Rwanda where the ladies of Handspun Hope complete the process of dyeing it organically in the single ply. Once the yarn is dry, the spinners then ply the yarn with spinning wheels into a two ply