Yarn Bases

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.