![]() ![]() It is water and dirt repellent and fire resistant. The 2mm and 3mm and 5mm felt range from Germany is manufactured to a very high standard ( DIN 61205). The same quality organic felt is also available undyed in wool white. We also stock an exciting range of plant and natural dyed 100% organic wool felt, available as sheets or by the metre. You can also buy half metre pieces (50cm by 90cm). It comes as sheets (20cm by 30cm) or by the metre. The thinner wool felt for Art and Craft use (1-1.2mm felt) is manufactured to DIN EN71 standard (article 1,2 and 3) and therefore suitable for use in children’s toys. We sell wool felt in many different thicknesses and over 85 different colours, ranging from 1mm, 2mm to 3mm thick. All of our felt is 100% pure wool and manufactured in Germany and Holland to a very high standard. Unlike HANFA, where the colour is continuous throughout. However, the natural white cotton yarn is evenly coloured and provides a resting, patterned, continuous herringbone weave throughout.Welcome to Wool and Felt, your specialist felt website selling natural wool felt for a variety of uses in design, architecture and the clothing and toy industry. Due to the natural colour of the nettle yarn, the colour changes regularly (see pictures). The nettle yarn used is handwoven and gives this fabric a unique character by an occasional unevenness. The combination of a denser, but light natural cotton warp woven with thin nettle yarn results in a strong defined herringbone weave, soft to the touch. Suitable for making: Blazers, jackets, summer clothing, children's clothing, trousers, vests.ĮHANI is almost identical to HANFA, our Hemp Herringbone fabric. However, the natural white cotton yarn is even colours and provides a resting, patterned, continuous weave throughout. The combination of a light natural cotton warp woven with thin nettle yarn results in an airy herringbone weave, soft and light to the touch. LUNA differs from our other Nettle fabrics due to a lighter weave and colour. I have heard my mother say that she thought nettle cloth more durable than any other linen."įANEEL differs from our Allo fabric, due to a straight weave rather than a herringbone like weave. The stalks of the old nettle are as good as flax for making cloth. The young and tender nettle is an excellent potherb. "In Scotland, I have eaten nettles," said the 18th century poet Thomas Campbell, "I have slept in nettle sheets, and I have dined off a nettle tablecloth. Nettles once rivaled flax and hemp (and later, cotton) as a staple fiber for thread and yarn, used to make everything from heavy sailcloth to fine table linen up to the 17th/18th centuries. Nettle yarn was once used widely in Europe and was known as the 'Poor man's Linen'. Please contact me, if you would like bigger quantities. Suitable for making: Blazers, jackets, winter clothing, children's clothing, trousers, vests.īags, upholstery, embroidery and much moreīecause this cloth is produced by hand and in small amounts there isn't an endless supply of cloth. The fabric keeps and protects body warmth, can be boiled and becomes softer and more beautiful with time and wear.Įach piece is unique and can vary to the picture shown Each length of fabric is a unique handwoven piece, in its truest, cleanest and most ecological form. The colour of one piece can vary from straw yellow to grey brown and even dark brown. Like most things in nature, this fabric has no one colour. The next day, the loosened fibers are beaten across a stone several times and rubbed with clay to loosen the remaining plant debris. There, the Nepalese still harvest and peel the nettle by hand, then it is placed in a semi boiling wood ash bath over night, which is used later for fertilizing the fields. The Nepalian nettle, Girardinia diversifolia, grows up to 3m tall. Cloisters and many other places devoted their time to the production of nettle yarn, nowadays pretty much forgotten and replaced by linen and cotton. In Europe, it used to be the linen for the poor. This fabric is ethically made in Nepal, by a company that is supporting homemakers, women and families to receive a decent income and to enable them to work from home, rather than finding employment abroad. NETTLE FABRIC ~ Made from Himalayan Nettles, wild harvested in Nepal. It can be used like Spinach, drank as a healing herbal tea, used for dyeing green and yellow, used in gardening as a pesticide and last but not least it creates fibre like Flax. And then there was the humble Nettle, so often despised for its sting. ![]()
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