Salt Spring Island - 25 Gram - Limited Edition Chili Spice

Hand-Painted 55% Silk/45% Cotton sliver

We dye for silk, so the cotton in this blend retains its white color, giving a lovely heather-y look and softer colors when spun. We rinsed multiple times, but the cotton still has a bit of 'dye stain'.  When you wash your spun yarn, the water will have some color still.  It's the loose dye molecules on the cotton--not the silk.

This silk/cotton blend has a short fiber length (1inch to 1.5 inches).  Spinner Kim used a walking wheel (aka great wheel), using low tension spinning off the point. Kim loved spinning our silk/cotton blend--and she confessed that she typically doesn't enjoy spinning cotton!  The 55% silk in our blend made the difference.  Kim believes that a chakra or small Russian spindle would also give great results with this short fiber length.

Note:  Because of the short fiber length, the sliver may break while weighing out the 25g and winding it to fit into the packaging.  But I continue with the sliver so the colors continue without interruption.

Salt Spring Island colorways are hand-painted in Colorado.  Our silks are colorfast (cold water wash) and our colorways are consistent.  Hand-painting silk sliver is a labor-intensive process. It requires careful manipulation and effort to achieve even color coverage on silk sliver.

25 Gram (0.9 oz) package