About Fibers

Considered a luxurious fiber, the alpaca is a camelid (related to the camel) like the llama. It produces a fairly fine and soft fiber in various natural hues ranging from white to fawn, brown, gray and black.

Considered a luxurious fiber, the alpaca is a camelid (related to the camel) like the llama. It produces a fairly fine and soft fiber in various natural hues ranging from white to fawn, brown, gray and black. As its micron count indicates, fiber from a baby alpaca is finer and softer even than that from an adult alpaca.

Blue Faced Leicester is a fine, dense fiber with good luster and length. Therefore, it lends itself well to combing. Blue Faced Leicester fiber produces beautiful, lustrous yarns with good resilience.

Colors: White, Oats, Brown, Gray

Cashgora is a breed derived from a mix of fancy Cashmere and fluffy Angora goats. Imagine the softness of Cashmere with the cozy warmth of Angora Goat all in one. Crafters love it because it's perfect for making the snuggliest scarves, shawls, and clothes when spun. It's like adding a sprinkle of natural shine to your crafty creations, making them look and feel absolutely fancy!

Color : White, Gray

The Charollais is a breed of sheep originating in France. This breed is typically bred for its meat. Its fiber is generally short and dense with several characteristics similar to the Down type breed. It can be used to produce all kinds of textiles.

Color : White

Cheviot is a strong and resilient fiber, it is ideal for spinning sock yarn or any project requiring increased wear resistance. 

Colors: White, Gray

Cormo wool is a prized fiber for spinning and felting. Its exceptional qualities make it a favorite among fiber enthusiasts. When it comes to spinning, Cormo wool's fine and soft fibers make it a joy to work with on spinning wheels or drop spindles. It easily drafts and creates smooth, even yarns, resulting in beautifully crafted handspun creations.

Colors: White

Corriedale is a fiber of good length, easy to spin. It is soft enough to be worn in direct contact on the skin for many. Durable, it lends itself well to clothing projects, blankets, etc.

Colors: White, Grey, Brown

The Dorset Horn is a very rare breed of sheep having dense fleece and a strong but irregular crimp of fibers. It is a versatile fiber, ideal for spinning and dyeing.

Color : White

The Exmoor Horn is a fiber with an independent character with a lot of body. It has a rather dry, almost crunchy, and rustic texture which gives it excellent strength and durability. 

Color : White

Falkland comes from the Falkland Islands located in South America. It is a fiber resulting from the breeding of Corriedale, Polwarth, Merino and Romney sheep which gives it some of the properties of each of them.

Color : White

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Color : Light grey, Dark grey, Brown, Black

The Gotland sheep is sought after for its softness and luster, as it is long enough to be combed. The fleece is also quite curly and in some ways resembles mohair.

Colors: White, Gray

Haunui is a fiber that combines the softness of merino with the staple length of romney. It has a subtle sheen and produces bouncy, airy yarns. It's a delight to spin!

Colors: Light taupe, Gray

Icelandic sheep fiber is dense, long and has a good luster. It therefore lends itself well to combing.

Colors: White, Grey, Brown, Black

From the very first shearing, this fiber from Icelandic lambs has a softness almost cashmere-like. Coming from a farm in British Columbia, it was washed and processed by hand in the workshop of A Lair Artifacts.

*Available in very limited quantities.

Colors: White, Honey, Mocha, Black

Jacob wool is a medium quality wool, naturally colored. It is one of the classic fibers for hand spinners.

Colors: White, Grey, Black

Coming from the Kent and Romney breed, the fiber of Kent Romney is one of the finest and softest of the British breeds. 

Color : White

The Masham is softer to the touch than its micron count suggests. This fiber with its exceptional luster yields intense, even spectacular colors. Once spun, it creates yarns with little elasticity, but what it loses in elasticity it regains with exceptional drape. It deserves to be discovered.

Colors: White, Gray

Merino is a very popular fine fiber for its softness and its ability to absorb dye in a defined and vibrant way.  Its micron count can vary from 14.5 mic to 25.5 mic. With its count of 23 microns, the fiber offers good density and lends itself to all kinds of applications. Our merino wool comes from non-mulesed sheep.

Colors: White, Grey, Dark Gray

Mohair is considered a luxurious fiber. The Angora goat produces a long, lustrous and elastic coat, and the fiber has very few scales. Mohair is useful for adding shine, luster and strength to a fiber blend.

Color : White

Perendale is a fiber of good length with a nice crimp, easy to spin. It produces yarns with a tendency to capture air and a nice bounce, even when spun worsted. The texture of the finished yarn caters easily to textured projects.

Color : White

A very old breed developed in Australia, consisting of one-quarter Lincoln and three-quarters Merino. Today this breed is found in Australia, New Zealand and the Falkland Islands. This fiber has a good bulk, and is very soft and silky. With its softness and length, Polwarth is one of my favorite fibers in addition to being candy to spin. It produces soft yarns that can be worn in direct contact with the skin.

Color : White

This is a very old breed, originating in the village of Rambouillet, France in 1786. It is also known as French Merino. This fiber is very soft, rather short and has a good crimp. With its softness, almost creamy texture and elasticity, it produces plump yarns that are suitable for wearing in direct contact with the skin.

Color : White

The Romney is a longwool British sheep that was developed in the low, wet area of the Romney Marshes in south-east England during the 13th century. Geographically isolated from the rest of the country, the Romney developed on its own and adapted well to its humid and often harsh environment. The fiber, very popular with spinners, has a well-defined crimp, a discreet luster and a good staple length.

Colors : Fawn, Grey, Black

Shetland wool is highly prized for handmade textiles due to its versatility. The wool is fine, soft and silky to the touch with a good characteristic of bulk and down. It is perfect for hand spinning, hand felting and many other craft uses.

Colors : Grey, Moorit, Black

Shropshire is a dense and resilient fiber which gives it good elasticity and durability when spun. It produces bouncy and resistant yarns. It is ideal to spin for projects like socks, mittens, toque, any durable garment that you want to wear often.

Color : White

Eri silk, also called Ahimsa silk or peace silk, is a silk that does not require killing the moth to extract the fiber. As a result, the silk cocoons Eri  are opened. They cannot be wound into raw filaments, but can be spun like wool. 

This silk is also called Assam and comes from a worm that originated in India. The color is a luxurious tan, an almost caramel golden brown, with a superb sheen. Beautifully soft and shimmering with a golden sheen, Muga silk is renowned for its lustrous and long-lasting caracteristics.

Mulberry silk is also known as Bombyx silk or cultivated silk. This is the finest quality silk you can find. It is produced by the silkworms of the Bombyx Mori moth. Their diet consists of mulberry leaves. Mulberry silk is produced in a warm, controlled environment.

Peduncle silk is produced from the stiff cocoon stem of the tussah caterpillar. In order not to waste anything in the silk production process, silk harvesters use the peduncle silk fibers that are harvested after the moth naturally emerge from their cocoons. It is a shorter fiber than tussah silk, but with a softer luster than mulberry silk.

A colorful recycled fiber collected from the by-products of the sari industry, this fiber has been pulled into a fine roving. Perfect for blending, felting and spinning, these rovings are usually very saturated and have nice color variations. To say these fibers are mesmerizing is an understatement, they can be sprinkled liberally to bring any project to life!

Tussah silk is wild silk. It is made from wild tussah silkworms that feed on juniper and oak leaves. Because the silk is produced in the wild and not in a controlled environment, it tends to be thicker and less lustrous than mulberry silk.

Southdown is a dense and resilient fiber which gives it good elasticity and durability when spun. It produces bouncy and resistant yarns. It is ideal to spin for projects like socks, mittens, toque, any durable garment that you want to wear often.

Color : White

The Suffolk sheep is a British breed and is categorized as short wool Down breed. Its dense fleece is suitable for knitwear and any other application where a good bulk is required.

Color : Grey

The Suri is a breed of alpaca, a domesticated member of the South American camelid family, which includes llamas, guancos and vicunas. Suri alpacas are renowned for their luxurious fiber, which is characterized by superior feel, softness and luster. Suri is the closest animal fiber to silk.

Targhee is a soft, dense, spongy fiber. It produces resilient yarns with good elasticity.

Felts easily

Color : White

Native to the cold and icy mountain regions of Central Asia, the yak is a heavyset member of the cattle and bison family. Its shaggy, multi-layered fur helps it stay insulated and warm in extreme temperatures. Their coat is divided into three types which naturally shed together before being harvested and separated mechanically. The fiber used is only composed of fine down with a squishy texture.

The Zwartbles is a breed of sheep originating in the Netherlands. Zwartbles is a beautiful naturally black or dark chocolate fiber, bulky with great crimp, excellent for felting.

Color: Dark brown