If you enjoyed this yarn, you can still get it undyed as Pakucho Original Fingering.

Spica Series

100% Organically Grown Cotton
Light Fingering/Heavy Lace Weight
400m/437yds
100g / 3.5 oz
10/2/2

Hand dyed using plant based pigments and natural mordants.

The colour varies gently through the skeins so your project will have a nice hand-dyed look to it. The process of dyeing naturally takes time, but requires no nasty chemicals, and the colours are always soft on the eye. Typically plant-dyeing takes anywhere from 3 days to two weeks, starting with scouring (cleaning), mordanting to or three times (preparing the fibre to help it accept the dye better) with natural mordants like oak tannin, mayrobalan, and alum. Then finally a ‘tea’ is made with the plant used for dyeing, and the yarn is added for up to a week in the dye bath. The process of naturally dyeing yarn takes more time and effort, but its worth it, knowing that no harmful chemicals were used in the process.

This yarn is EKO Certified Organic by Control Union/SKAL & Certified FairTrade, it comes from Peru Naturtex, and it is hand dyed in small batches at the Vegan Yarn studio in New Westminster, BC, Canada.