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Southdown Combed Top - Hand dyed

Regular price $25.00
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Description

For the hand-spinner in search of a down wool, the Southdown is a solid choice. One of Britain's oldest breeds, the Southdown produces a dense, resilient medium-grade white fleece ranging between 23–30 microns with a staple length of around 80mm. It takes dye well, spins reliably, and its spiral crimp makes it better suited to outerwear and socks than to felting.

These braids have been dyed in our Mole Creek Tasmania studio using high quality acid dyes.

This is a fun fibre to spin woolen long draw. Let the twist build up into the fiber, gently pinch, and allow the spindle's weight or the wheel's pull to draft the wool out as you draw your hands backward.

Sourced from the UK. Each braid is a generous 100g 

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Southdown Combed Top - Hand dyed

$25.00
Shipping & Packaging

Shipping & Packaging

While we are unable to offer international shipping at this time, we can ship to our New Zealand neighbours. Contact us for more information.
We re-use packaging materials whenever possible.

Order tracking

All items are shipped via Australia Post. As Mole Creek is a rural post office, orders are generally picked on the day received, and shipped the next. Tracking numbers are automatically sent as soon as your order is shipped.

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If you have any questions about your order, please contact us. Our customer service is available Monday through Friday from 10am until 3pm aest.

Sourcing & Materials
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Sustainable sourcing

The equipment I stock comes from makers I respect — Ashford, Schacht, Majacraft — who build things designed to last decades, not seasons. The fibre is Tasmanian where I can source it, because buying from down the road is the most straightforward version of this. I won't stock something I don't believe in, which means the range is deliberately small.

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What I'd use myself

Everything in the store has been through the same filter: would I use this myself? If the answer is no, it doesn't make it onto the website. That means the range is deliberately narrow — there are no products here to fill a gap or round out a catalogue. What's here is here because I'd stake my own time and reputation on it.

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Wool miles

Fibre has a journey before it reaches you — where it was grown, where it was shorn, where it was processed, and how far it travelled at each stage. I think you deserve to know that. Where I can tell you the origin, I will. Where I can source locally, I do. This isn't a marketing position — it's just what honest dealing looks like.