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Cotton - 50g Price: £1.70 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity:
White cotton, carded and ready for spinning, felting or papermaking. Excellent for dyeing, too. £2.00 per 50g inc VAT

Cotton Noil - 50g special offer Price: £1.28 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity:
Cotton noil fibre is excellent for papermaking and felting. As the staple is short it is best to blend this for spinning. £1.50 per 50g inc VAT - usual price £2.00

Cotton neps - 50g Price: £0.85 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		OUT OF STOCK
Neps or knops are a by-product of the woollen industry but are exciting to use in spinning to make Donegal type yarn or texture in feltmaking and papermaking. These are natural coloured, undyed white cotton neps. Wool and tencel neps also available. £1.00 per 50g pack inc VAT - new lower price

Soya bean fibre Price: £2.98 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity:
Soya bean fibre looks and feels like Tussah silk but is a vegetable alternative. £3.50 per 100g inc VAT

Soya bean staple - 50g - while stocks last Price: £1.28 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity:
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 - special offer Price: £1.28 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity:
Until you see it, until you feel it, until you felt it, until you spin it, until you blend it, you will not believe it! Brilliant white, soft as cotton wool, cool as a mountain stream - is this corny or what? - but it's true. The Chinese have triumphed again. 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.Ususally £2.00 per 100g inc VAT- special offer just £1.50 per 100g

Bamboo Black Diamond tops Price: £2.98 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity:
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. £3.50 per 100g

Ingeo Price: £4.26 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity:
fibre made from corn. Bright white tops which is easy to spin and will dye (vegetable fibre dyes). £5.00 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. £6.00 inc VAT per 100g Price: £5.11 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)
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Flax 50g Price: £0.85 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity: option
Natural coloured flax or bleached (white) in tops form. Softer than it looks! £1.00 per 50g inc VAT

Ramie tops Price: £2.55 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity:
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: £1.70 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity:
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. £2.00 per 100g

Tencel neps - 50g Price: £0.85 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		OUT OF STOCK
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. £4.00 inc VAT per 100g Price: £3.40 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)
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Banana fibre/threads - undyed 25g Price: £0.85 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity:
Loose, fairly thick threads in a loose tangle undyed in a natural white colour. Lengths of threads vary considerably. £1.00 per 25g

Banana fibre/threads - dyed 25g Price: £0.85 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)		Quantity:
Loose, fairly thick threads in a mix of pink and white only. Lengths of threads vary considerably. End of line. Very restricted availabilty. £1.00 per 25g