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Cotton tops - 50g - Fibre of the Month

Price: £1.25 Excluding VAT at 20%

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White cotton tops, ready for spinning, felting or papermaking. Excellent for dyeing, too. Fairly short.
usually £2.00 per 50g inc VAT Fibre of the Month - £1.50

Cotton Noil - 50g - Fibre of the Month

Price: £1.25 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Cotton noil fibre is excellent for papermaking and felting. As the staple is short it is best to blend this for spinning.
usually £2.00 per 50g inc VAT Fibre of the Month - £.150

Cotton Neps - 50g - Fibre of the Month

Price: £0.63 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Neps or knops are a by-product of the fibre industry but are exciting to use in spinning to make Donegal type yarn or texture in feltmaking. These are natural coloured, undyed neps in 50g packs.
Wool and tencel neps also available.
usually £1.00 per 50g pack Fibre of the Month - 75p

Soya bean tops

Price: £2.92 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Soya bean fibre looks and feels like Tussah silk but is a vegetable alternative.
£3.50 per 100g inc VAT

Soya bean staple - 50g

Price: £1.25 Excluding VAT at 20%

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the same soya bean fibre, but in carded form, some of the fibres in "crimplets". Looks good in felting
£1.50 per 50g inc VAT

Bamboo Fibre

Price: £1.67 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Brilliant white fibre, soft as cotton wool, cool as a mountain stream - is this corny or what?
The fabric that is taking China by storm for fashion fabrics is made from bamboo and it is what we say -
white, soft and cool and you can buy it from us now.
£2.00 per 100g inc VAT

Bamboo Black Diamond tops

Price: £3.34 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Unusual dark grey tops with a wonderful sheen. Also known as Black Gold. Lovely to spin and gives a soft feel - a cross between cotton and silk.
£4.00 per 100g

Ingeo

Price: £5.00 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Fibre made from corn. Bright white tops which is easy to spin and will dye (vegetable fibre dyes).
£6.00 inc VAT per 100g

Seacell
This fibre is really made from seaweed. It has the look and feel like tussah silk, with long, lustrous honey coloured fibres. Lovely to spin.
£7.00 inc VAT per 100g

Price: £5.83 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Flax 50g

Price: £1.04 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Natural coloured flax or bleached (white) in tops form. Softer than it looks!
£1.25 per 50g inc VAT

Ramie tops

Price: £2.50 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Made from sting-less nettles this unusual white fibre in tops form is high in lustre and is wonderful spun on its own or blended with other vegetable fibres. This fibre looks and feels like very fine flax.
£3.00 per 100g inc VAT

Tencel tops

Price: £2.08 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Lustrous, fine, bright white fibre from wood pulp which looks and feels like silk.
Being a vegetable fibre, this needs fibre-reactive dyes, but try blending it with wool and then dyeing it to give lovely varied shades.
£2.50 per 100g

Tencel neps - 50g

Price: £0.84 Excluding VAT at 20%

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textured neps, a by-product of the fibre industry, are fun to incorporate in to spinning and perfect for texture in feltmaking and papermaking
Cotton and wool neps also available.
£1.00 inc VAT for 50g

Banana tops
Long, white, lustrous fibres from the banana plant. Looks and feels a bit like silk.
£5.00 inc VAT per 100g

Price: £4.17 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Banana fibre/threads - undyed 25g

Price: £0.84 Excluding VAT at 20%

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Loose, fairly thick threads in a loose tangle undyed in a natural white colour. Lengths of threads vary considerably.
£1.00 per 25g