Yarn Bases

Vespertine

Vespertine is a super soft yarn with a gorgeous heathered texture. The heathered look of the base lends depth and richness to colours and adds an additional sophisticated flair. The extrafine merino fibers are reinforced with nylon for additional durability. It creates a beautiful fabric without compromising the fibre strength and washability. The yarn is therefore great for knitting soft, comfy socks or any kind of garments or accessories.

Vespertine is a term used in the life sciences to indicate something of, relating to, or occurring in the evening. In botany, a vespertine flower is one that opens or blooms in the evening. In zoology, the term is used for a creature that becomes active at dusk, such as bats and owls. Vespertine behaviour is a special case of crepuscular behaviour; while crepuscular activity may resume during the dim hours of dawn, vespertine activity is limited to dusk and ceases during full darkness.

fingering weight

Vespertine

Fiber contents: 75% Superwash Fine Merino (19,5 micron), 25% Nylon
Weight per skein: 100 g / 3,5 oz
Running length:420 m / 459 yds
Yarn Weights Available: Fingering/Sock

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Mokosh

Mokosh is a super soft 19,5 micron merino yarn with a natural shine. Creates a beautiful fabric and is fantastic for the lovers of a gentle tactile experience without compromising the fibre strength and washability. Mokosh makes cozy, comfortable sweaters, shawls and accessories. 

Mokosh is named after an ancient Slavic goddess Mokosh, Mokush or Mokosha. The veneration of Mokosha as the protector of sheep and spinning wheels was maintained in northern Russian and Ukrainian folklore until the mid-19th century. She had a large head and long arms, and would go around cottages and spinning wheels at night if the tow was left freely accessible. Although traces of her cult were recorded in the middle of the 19th century in northern Russia, the figure and position of this goddess in the Slavic pantheon have not been satisfactorily explained to this day. She however appears prominently as the protector of women's work, especially spinning and sheep shearing.

fingering weight

Mokosh

Fiber contents: 100% Superwash Fine Merino Wool (19,5 microns)
Weight per skein: 100 g / 3,5 oz
Running length Fingering: 400 m / 437 yds
✓ Oeko-Tex 100 Certified Yarn Base

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dk weight

Mokosh DK

Fiber contents: 100% Superwash Fine Merino Wool (19,5 microns)
Weight per skein: 100 g / 3,5 oz
Running length DK:225 m / 246 yd
✓ Oeko-Tex 100 Certified Yarn Base

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Striga

A beautiful, soft and robust yarn with a gentle texture, Striga creates a light weight fabric, with a particularly crisp and even stitch definition that will charm (not only) the texture knitters. Ideal for cozy sweaters, shawls and accessories. Well-suited for knitting socks and gloves despite the lack of nylon, the yarn doesn’t wear out easily.

Striga is named after a slavic folklore figure, very similar to a witch or crone. She is a semi-demonic being, which in folk beliefs was characterized by supernatural properties and the ability to harm its surroundings. She typically appeared as an old woman or a young girl, and had the ability to transform into animals (cats, toads, owls).

Strigas could summon storms, destroy crops, harm people and animals, summon spirits, tell fortunes and influence the future, take or spoil milk from cows and cause enthrallment. After using magical ointments, they gained the ability to fly through the air, especially on the dark nights of the winter and summer solstices and at the beginning of spring, when the witches' sabbath was held.

The origin of strigas trace back to the mythological Strix of ancient Rome and ancient Greece, and was a bird of ill omen, the product of metamorphosis, that fed on human flesh and blood. It also referred to witches and related malevolent folkloric beings.

fingering weight

Striga

Fiber contents: 100% Superwash Bluefaced Leicester Wool
Weight per skein: 100 g / 3,5 oz
Running length Fingering: 400 m / 437 yds
✓ Oeko-Tex 100 Certified Yarn Base

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dk weight

Striga DK

Fiber contents: 100% Superwash Bluefaced Leicester Wool
Weight per skein: 100 g / 3,5 oz
Running length DK: 225 m / 246 yds
✓ Oeko-Tex 100 Certified Yarn Base

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Spellbound

Spellbound is a deliciously soft yarn containing Bluefaced Leicester wool and silk.

The silk provides the fibres with additional strength as well as a beautiful luster. The yarn is fantastic for any kind of project that calls for supple, draping fabric. It is well-suited for everyone who enjoys the Extra softness and durability.

The BFL and Silk combination in the yarn can cause a slight halo effect on the fabric over time. This is completely normal and is just a natural progression of how the yarn "settles", eventually it will go away on its own. In the meantime, it is safe to use a fabric shaver / gleener on the gentlest setting to maintain the garment. We recommend doing a spot test on the fabric beforehand.

fingering weight

spellbound

Fiber contents: 55% Superwash Bluefaced Leicester Wool, 45% Silk
Weight per skein: 100 g / 3,5 oz
Running length: 400 m / 437 yds
✓ Oeko-Tex 100 Certified Yarn Base

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DK weight

spellbound DK

Fiber contents: 55% Superwash Bluefaced Leicester Wool, 45% Silk
Weight per skein: 100 g / 3,5 oz
Running length DK Weight: 225 m / 246 yds
✓ Oeko-Tex 100 Certified Yarn Base

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Empyrean

Empyrean is a deliciously soft, fluffy lace-weight yarn base, perfect as an alternative to mohair or suri alpaca. It is excellent as a complementary thread to be held with a different yarn, or just by itself, and it is also wonderful to be used for adding subtle colour accents to your fabric.

I chose the name Empyrean for its incredible, divine softness.

In ancient European cosmologies inspired by Aristotle, the Empyrean heaven, Empyreal or simply the Empyrean, was the place in the highest heaven which was supposed to be occupied by the element of fire (or aether in Aristotle's natural philosophy). In medieval Christianity, the Empyrean was the third heaven and beyond "the heaven of the air and the heaven of the stars."

Empyrean can also mean "heavenly" or "celestial".

Lace Weight

Empyrean

Fiber contents: 68% Non-superwash Merino (16,5 micron), 22% Silk, 10% Cashmere
Weight per skein: 50 g / 1,7 oz
Running length: 420 m / 459 yds
Yarn Weights Available: Lace

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