Nurturing Fibres
Nurturing Fibres Super Twist Sock 100% Merino Heavy Fingering 4 ply / Sports Weight
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The Supertwist Sock is perfect for warm and comfy socks and versatile enough to create wonderful shawls, scarves and cardigans. This soft yarn can be worn directly against the skin.
Weight: Heavy Fingering 4 ply / Sports Weight
Yardage: 320 meters (350 yards)
Unit weight: 100 grams (3.53 ounces)
For socks: 2.25mm to 2.75mm needles.
For outerwear: 3.5mm to 4mm needles
Fibres: 100% Merino
About Nurturing Fibres:
Country of Origin is South Africa, all the wool is from local free ranging sheep that are non-mulesed.
We are conscious that, if not properly managed, our passion for dyeing yarn could have an environmental impact and we believe that by careful planning we can make a difference. With this in mind, we designed our dyehouse to run with the lowest possible environmental impact and the greatest possible socio-economic benefit to our very small local community.
Using Renewable Energy resources:
We use solar power to heat our water for dyeing and only top up the temperature if need be. In the dye house, the water is gravity fed instead of being pumped. Yarns are dried naturally either in the sunshine or over our Aga Stove. All our skeining and balling is done manually.
Job creation:
It takes a whole day for one dye batch to be balled, since we can dye up to 14 dye lots a day [70kgs] this means that 14 jobs can be created just in the balling department.
We are not running at full production, but with your continued orders we are able to continue growing and therefore employ more Xhosa people from the local farms.
Water is precious:
The water used to soak the skeins in preparation for dyeing is recycled and used to irrigate the staff Vegetable Garden. All other water used in the dyeing process is ph balanced and then used to irrigate the 120 Olive trees. The washing of equipment and the yarn is done with Borehole water. As this water is sourced on the farm, it has a much lower environmental impact compared to other water sources.
