Description
This beautiful 21 micron White Polwarth which is 100% Pure New Zealand Wool is soft and fine with a longer staple length. Perfect for spinning, felting, weaving, dyeing and all your textile crafts. Dyes beautifully with Ashford dyes. Wild Woolly love this Polwarth as it can be dyed for a super fine finish on custom made creations.
Ashford Wool Mill in Ashburton NZ are the produces of this beautiful wool. The wool is washed (scoured) using a standard aqueous treatment at 60-70 degrees with an eco-friendly detergent that is biodegradable and breaks down quickly in water. It is then dried and ready for dyeing using Oeko-Tex 100 compliant dyes. The fibre is then carded, gilled and combed to remove any short pieces and to align the fibres. An auto-leveller ensures the sliver is a standard thickness or kilotex (grams per metre) before it is converted into 1kg (2.2lbs) balls.
Ashford sliver is then ready to spin, weave or felt without waste or further preparation.
