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Knitting for Olive

Merino - Knitting for Olive

Merino - Knitting for Olive

Regular price $14.50 CAD
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A soft and ethical yarn, available in a large range of colours. 

Available online, and at la Maison Tricotée Gilford

This merino wool comes from sheep raised in Patagonia, where the Cette laine mérinos provient de moutons élevés en Patagonie, where mulesing is not practiced.  The wool can be traced directly to the farm it comes from. 

Merino wool has numerous wonderful properties; it regulates body temperature.  In other words, wool keeps our body warm in cold weather, and releases heat in warmer weather; which allows our skin to stay cool. At the same time, wool, like silk, helps wick moisture away from the skin, and can absorb up to 30% of it's weight without feeling wet.

Fibre
100 % merino, Oeko-Tex Standard 100

Weight
Light Fingering

Meterage
250 meters (273 yards)

Unit weight
50 grams (1.76 ounces)

Gauge
32 stiches X 32 rows = 10 cm (4 in)

Made in
Danemark

Care
Hand-wash in cool water, dry flat

OEKO-TEX® is a voluntary certification of product through which the certified company commits itself to keep in time the safeness of its own products. The OEKO-TEX® 100 mark guarantees that the textiles (or accessories of the textiles, metallic ones included) do not contain or release harmful substances for the consumer (pesticides, heavy metals, formaldehyde, aromatic amines, allergy-inducing dyestuffs and so on). The garments certified by OEKO-TEX® comply with the requirements demanded by the standard EN ISO 13688:2013 and they abide by the requirements of the attachment XVII of REACH (regulation 552:2009) having the textile product as area of pertinence.

At the end of 2015, they started selling knitting patterns for babies and toddlers. They quickly expanded to children’s sizes as well, and in 2018 they designed our first adult-sized patterns.

To be able to give us the best knitting experience, they decided to offer Knitting for Olive yarns. Their vision is to offer high-quality yarns made of pure natural fibres created with respect for both the animals and our environment.

They are a family-run business based in Copenhagen. They are surrounded by lots of kids, who give us countless inspiration and ideas.  They always have new patterns in the making.

You can visit them on their website, on Facebook, Instagram or YouTube.

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