SILK WOOL

Sumptious 16Nm2 wool/silk mix (50/50) laceweight yarn is different enough in its uptake of the natural dyes to warrant its own page, and shade card if you are ordering the trade pack.

Fleece Cloud A

The unique Skye cloudscape gives this undyed or self coloured shade its name. An opened fleece from a freshly shorn Highland ewe looks much the same!

DYED WITH: Undyed

Meadowsweet B

Damp-pasture loving, delectably frothy-fragrant meadowsweet from Skye is one of the few dye plants that produces a matching shade.

DYED WITH: Meadowsweet

Tansy Gold C

Like meadowsweet, herb tansy grows wild everywhere in Scotland, and gives a matching but deeper yellow. Historically used also as a medicinal plant by local crofters.

DYED WITH: Tansy

Wild Mushroom D

Dyed using several ingredients but tonally evocative of wild fungi in the woods around Dunvegan Castle in North West Skye.

DYED WITH: Onion Skins, Madder and Tansy

Madder Root E

One of the oldest natural dyes, producing colour tones from a yellow- orange through brick to flame red. This colour tone is nearest that of the original root.

DYED WITH: Madder

Skye Gabbro F

The so-named Red Cuillin of Skye, the latter a gabbro mountain range partially clad with flowering heather in the late summer, lend this shade its name.

DYED WITH: Madder, lac and logwood

Autumn Leaves G

A shade suggested by tonal variations exhibited by fiery maples and other deciduous trees in Scottish estate woodlands at the turn of the season

DYED WITH: Madder and lac

Rowan Berry H

The rowan, which lends its name to this shade, is famous in the folklore of the Scottish Highlands

DYED WITH: Lac

Hawthorn J

Tenacious hawthorn can be found on the wild coastal regions of the Highlands. The deep crimson berries give this shade its name.

DYED WITH: Lac and Cochineal

Foxglove K

Springing up everywhere from estate walled gardens to Highland road verges, the foxglove with its speckled throat suggest this shade name.

DYED WITH: Lac and cochineal

Heather Bloom L

The moors and mountains of the Scottish Highlands can be virtually carpeted with heather - but look closely and you may see a multitude of tones.

DYED WITH : Lac and Cochineal

Briar Rose M

The briar is the thorny Highland cousin of the domestic rose, but is better suited to Atlantic gales! The end-petal tints suggest this delicate shade.

DYED WITH: Lac/cochineal and logwood

Thistle Bloom N

Colour tones for this shade come from the emblematic flower of Scotland.

DYED WITH: Lac and logwood

Autumn Moors P

The late afternoon sun catching coastal moors in full seasonal bloom suggests the name of this colour tone.

DYED WITH: Lac and logwood

Blackberry Q

The familiar fruiting bramble, found everywhere from the wild corners of estate gardens and woodlands to the humble slab fence, lends this variegated shade its name.

DYED WITH: Lac, logwood and indigo

Blaeberry R

A shade suggested by tiny blaeberry plants growing under moorland heather, which show dusky blue-purples set off by wine tones in the maturing fruit.

DYED WITH: Lac/cochineal and indigo

Winter Loch S

Twylight settling over a deep loch suggests the name for this indigo shade. Nature colours in the Highlands are often more intense in the winter when the sun is lower and the light more fractured.

DYED WITH: Indigo

Summer Loch T

Blues in the still waters of Loch Beinn a' Mheadhoin suggest this shade.

DYED WITH: Indigo

Atlantic Spray U

Wild Atlantic storms breaking upon the Skye coastline are reflected in the paler blue colour tones and flecks of this shade.

DYED WITH: Indigo

Spring Forest V

Take a ramble through the budding deciduous woodlands planted around Highland castles and estates with this shade.

DYED WITH: Meadowsweet and indigo

Bracken W

Bracken is the untamed invader of Highland croft and pasture land, but its new-growth colour tones are beguilingly pretty.

DYED WITH: Tansy and indigo

Juniper X

Shrubby juniper lodges in the crannies of cliff faces on Skye but its storm-battered outer foliage conceals inner wonders of colour toning.

DYED WITH: Meadowsweet, tansy and indigo

Uig Sea-Green Y

Strong light on tides flowing over pearl-white beaches found in areas of the neighbouring Island of Lewis and Harris produces a startling range of aqua tones to inspire this colour.

DYED WITH: Meadowsweet, tansy and indigo