Yarn Bases
Tencel™ (Lyocell)
Tencel™, otherwise known as Lyocell, is a marvelous fiber produced from sustainably grown trees such as beech and eucalyptus. Aside from having an exquisite silky texture and a beautiful fluid drape and hand, it's one of my own personal favorite fibers because its production process uses a unique closed-loop system which recovers and reuses the majority of solvents used, minimizing the environmental impact of production.
Additionally, the fiber takes color extremely well, providing for vivid eye-popping colorways. It drapes and falls and has a woven texture similar to silk, providing an option for those looking for a vegan alternative to protein-based silk fiber.
Our Tencel™ Yarn Line
Mystic Yarn Works is pleased to offer you three different weight options for your next Tencel™ project:
- Enchant: Our flagship Tencel™ yarn, made from 5/2 Tencel™, which is a light fingering weight.
- Enchant Lace: 8/2 Tencel™, lace weight.
- Enchant Ultima: A slightly bulkier 3/2 Tencel, about sport weight.
Bamboo
Fairy Floss is the name for our bamboo line, which is a 2-ply fingering weight yarn. Continuing in the vein of cruelty-free and environmentally friendly fiber products, our bamboo is soft as a marshmallow with a very subtle glossy sheen. Although bamboo takes color a bit less tenaciously than Tencel™, it is super squishy and warm, great for all manner of next-to-skin garments and accessories.
Mercerized Cotton (Perle Cotton)
Spellbound is our line of 2-ply fingering weight Mercerized cotton, otherwise known as "perle" cotton. So what is Mercerization? It's basically the process of treating cotton fiber with sodium hydroxide (aka lye) to rearrange the cellulose molecules, making the fiber stronger, improving dye affinity, and giving it a more lustrous silky sheen. So it's cotton, but better!
Other Fibers
As of the moment, I do own a spinning wheel and numerous drop spindles and many metric tons of fiber that I compulsively bought for reasons unknown to me. I have hand carders and all kinds of exciting stuff which I plan to blend and spin and ply....but mostly for personal edification. I don't really do much in the way of dyeing wool or other protein-based fibers, mainly because I am all warm and cozy in my tightly controlled carefully measured chemically fixed pigment environment. And I'm also just not tooled up for processing fiber and making yarn from scratch.
There's a good chance I may offer whatever yarn I make in my spare time up for sale somewhere on this website, but that's definitely not what I'm going to be doing in any serious capacity for the time being
Last updated May 31, 2021