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A large range of natural fibres and dyes are available from Hands for spinners, weavers and other textile artists. Hands carry an exciting range of knitting yarns & patterns, sari silk and other exotic fibres. Ranges of dyes we carry are RIT, Dylon, Earth Palette, Procion and Ashford. Natural dyes and mordants available at Hands, are listed here.
*PLEASE NOTE: WEBSITE PRICES ARE GST EXCLUSIVE
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NZ price including GST $6.99 per 200g pack
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100g of this luxurious blend of 20% Silk and 80% Merino
Colour: Cinnamon
NZ price including GST $12.99
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100g of this luxurious blend of 20% Silk and 80% Merino
Colour: Damson
NZ price including GST $12.99
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100g of this luxurious blend of 20% Silk and 80% Merino
Colour: Juniper
NZ price including GST $12.99
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100g of this luxurious blend of 20% Silk and 80% Merino
Colour: Mulberry
NZ price including GST $12.99
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100g of this luxurious blend of 20% Silk and 80% Merino
Colour: Peppercorns
NZ price including GST $12.99
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100g of this luxurious blend of 20% Silk and 80% Merino
Colour: Pomegranate
NZ price including GST $12.99
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100g of this luxurious blend of 20% Silk and 80% Merino
Colour: Poppyseed
NZ price including GST $12.99
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100g of this luxurious blend of 20% Silk and 80% Merino
Colour: Saffron
NZ price including GST $12.99
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100g of this luxurious blend of 20% Silk and 80% Merino
Colour: Salvia
NZ price including GST $12.99
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100g of this luxurious blend of 20% Silk and 80% Merino
Colour: Spice
NZ price including GST $12.99
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100g of this luxurious blend of 20% Silk and 80% Merino
Colour: Vanilla
NZ price including GST $12.99
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3 x 10g Acid exhaust dyes for wool, silk and all animal fibres. Safe and easy to use, set with white vinegar. Use the three primary colours to make all the colours of the rainbow. 10g dyes 1kg (2.2lb).
NZ price including GST $24.50
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This fibre comes from the Angora goat and should be spun with slightly more twist than wool and with a light tension. Blend with wool 50:50 using an Ashford Drum carder to add a luxurious feel to wool. 100g.
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Angora goat and romney sheep's wool have been carded and blended to produce this top quality South Island blend. 250g.
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Dichromate of potash
This mordant is sensitive to light.
NZ price including GST $6.00 per 20g pack
Email for further details
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Author: Jenny Dean
Colours from Nature describes in full detail how to prepare and use natural dyes on a variety of fibres to produce a wide range of colours, following safe and environmentally-friendly methods.
The comprehensive recipe section gives instructions for over 100 colours, using both traditional dyes such as indigo, madder and weld, and dyes from more common plants such as blackberry, rhubarb, oak and walnut.
Softcover, 102 pages
NZ price including GST $34.99
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Author: India Flint
Dyeing with plants is a kind of botanical alchemy, a process that gives beautiful and sometimes surprising results. Eco Colour explores the fascinating and infinitely variable world of plant colour. The book encompasses only ecologically sustainable plant-dye methods using renewable resources, and attempts to take the path of doing the least possible harm to the dyer, the end user of the object, and the environment. Recipes include a number of entirely new processes developed by the author, as well as guidelines for plant collection, directions for distillation of non-toxic mordants and methodologies for applying plant dyes. This book is aimed at both the novice home dyer and textile professionals. A beautiful book from a very talented Australian!
Hardback, 240 pages
NZ price including GST $70.00
CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK
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Author: Iris Lee
An amazing array of traditional sewing and craft techniques can be successfully and easily accomplished with Fibre Etch. It is a unique fabric remover gel for creating etched designs and cut-away effects in fabric for clothing and home decor. An indepth look at the product and how to use it with ideas for projects included.
Softcover, 96 pages
NZ price including GST $50.25
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10 assorted beads
100% wool and made in Nepal
NZ price including GST $4.50
These beads are available instore individually for 50c each if you wish to hand select your own colours & styles (as pictured)
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Fibre length 40-50mm. White 50g.
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Fibre length 75-80mm. Natural 50g.
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100g fibre.
This fibre has been carded and combed into a continuous sliver to be spun directly with no need for distaff. It is a lustrous white and the bleaching has made it softer than the average flax sliver.
NZ price including GST $5.00
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50g fibre
Thin spaghetti like lengths of high quality carded merino fibre to add to your felt for surface effects or spin into your designer yarns. Dyes beautifully.
NZ price including GST $6.99
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Fibre length 40-50mm. White 50g.
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Mulberry silk white wadding in cap form. Approximately 50g.
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Mulberry white silk sliver. Grade A1 Natural 50g.
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20g Matt finish, fine fibre.
Silk throwsters are factory waste from the silk spinning mills and are pure silk threads. Being pure silk they dye beautifully and can be added to your felting, spinning, silk paper and other textile mediums.
NZ price including GST $5.00
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Silk 50% and Bamboo 50% mix - carded
30-40mm fibre length
50g
NZ price including GST $7.95
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Silk 50% and wool 50% mix - carded
Fibre length 70-75mm
50grams
NZ price including GST $9.95
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Fibre length 40-50mm. Natural 50g.
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Fibre length 70-80mm. Grade A1 unbleached 50g.
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Fibre length 70-80mm. Grade A bleached sliver 50g.
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Experience the ancient and mystical process of dyeing with indigo, a plant-based dye that gives the beautiful shades of "indigo blue". For use with all natural fabrics and fibres. Kit contains: 20g indigo dye, 250g reducing agent, 1 pair gloves, wood pieces, 2 sizes of rubber bands, instruction book with dye patterns and a historical & cultural overview of indigo.
NB: Read instructions fully prior to use so you can understand the process fully.
A Jacquard Product.
NZ price including GST $44.99
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NZ price including GST $4.00 per 20g pack
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Soft 18 micron merino
3m x 1.5m
Use as a base for getting an even result in your felting. Enough for a garment or several scarves. Especially effective in nuno felt techniques.
NZ price including GST $99.00
(Please note: photo has been lit to get detail but this is definitely black)
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Soft 18 micron merino
3m x 1.5m
Use as a base for getting an even result in your felting. Enough for a garment or several scarves. Especially effective in nuno felt techniques.
NZ price including GST $99.00
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150 x 20 cm size
Approximately 0.5cm thick these batts are made up of long, parallel fibres, layers upon layers.
Undyed - approx 55grams
NZ price including GST $19.99
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Sawdust from wood of the tree Cacsalpinia echinate, a South American variety, also called Pernamabuco wood. Use for soft muted pinks. 40g.
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Whole dried insects of the species Dactylopius coccus, a cultivated variety with high dye content, sometimes called "gray cochineal". Use to create reds. 10g.
OUT OF STOCK CURRENTLY
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Prepared from wood of one Acacia tree species, a good source of colourfast browns; contains tannin as well as dye compounds. The brittle resin is easily broken up into granules, which are readily soluble in hot water. 30g.
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Pure powdered leaves of the plant Lawsownia inermis; this variety is sometimes called "red henna". Gives red-browns with good colourfastness. 30g.
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For experienced dyers. Extract prepared from cultivated plants of Indigofera tinctoria. Is best and traditionally used on cotton and linen. Deep blue colour. 20g.
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Silver grey powdered extraxt - finest quality
This is a mixture of logwood purple and iron
To make lightfast colours steel grey to raven black
NZ price including GST $11.50 per 10g pack
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Whole roots of mature plants of Rubia tinctoum. Use for salmon pink. 50g.
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Natural dye extract - Super concentrated
Gives deepest turkey reds to bright orange colours
NZ price including GST $8.90 per 10g pack
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Indigofera tinctorial
Create sky blue to midnight blues from this top grade indigo powder.
NZ price including GST $3.90 per 10g pack
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Sawdust form the heartwood of the tree Maclura pomifera, formerly called Toxylon pomiferum, native to the central USA. Contains yellow dye compounds similar to fustic. Other common names are "hedge apple" and "bow dock". 30g.
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Finely ground heartwood of the tree Pterocarpus santalinus, native to tropical Asia. Gives red-browns to purplish browns in an alkaline dyebath. Colourfastness fair. Also sometimes used in traditional varnish recipes. 30g.
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This lichen is unique to New Zealand and produces a wonderful range of colours all from the same 50g. Colours include purples, pinks, fawns, browns, yellows, golds and greens! 100g.
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A hit fibre craft with both adults and children (both boys and girls) at the moment. This kit contains: instructions, one felting needle, 4 safety pins and 100g wool sliver. Enough to make 4 brooches.
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Author: DC Dalton
This concise little book tells you about 40 million of NZ's inhabitants - sheep! It describes sheep farming in the North and South Islands, the history of farming, the farming year, sheepdogs, shearing, mustering and agricultural shows. This book is an ideal introduction to New Zealand's sheep farming industry. The text is illustrated throughout with colour photographs.
Paperback, 32 pages
NZ price including GST $9.99
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Made in Nepal, this exciting range of 100% wool felt includes pieces, die-cut flowers, ropes and a variety of embellishment beads. Great for embroidering onto garments, making jewellery and home furnishings. Priced from $4.99pk
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Author: Graham Meadows
This book is essential reading for anyone with a professional or informal interest in the breeds farmed in New Zealand today. Find facts on more than 40 breeds - how they were developed, their physical characteristics, their yield, and more. Plus more information on the history of sheep farming, sheep anatomy and behaviour, the wool and meat industries, genetics and colour breeds, etc. Fully illustrated.
Softcover, 176 pages (New Holland Publishers)
NZ price including GST $29.99
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This is a blend everyone has been asking for. Smooth, silky, often labelled in NZ Tourist shops as "NZ Mink". 20% Possum and 80% Merino blend. The warm brown, caramel and ginger shades of the possum fur are blended through the merino to make a really special fibre. Luxurious, warm and soft, Possum Fur is 7% warmer than wool.
Product weight 100g
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This wool, English Leicester fleece, 32-38 micron, comes in wonderfully bright colours. It can be used for spinning, weaving, embroidery, doll's hair and more! 400grams.
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Author: Janice Gunner
Combine traditional Japanese, African and Indian Shibori methods with contemporary techniques to create stunning textiles that are bursting with rich, intricate patterns and bold colour.
A range of techniques is covered - from tied and stitched designs to ideas for wrapping, folding, clamping, pleating and binding. Simple and safe instructions for a range of dyeing techniques are also included.
Hardcover, 126 pages
NZ price including GST $59.99
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Glauber Salts. 250g.
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Used as a reducing agent in indigo dye vats. Seven times stronger than hydrosulfite.
Used also as a stripping agent for some synthetic dyes.
NZ price $2.00 per 20g pack
CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK
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Set of 4 extra thick markers for fabric
Classic colours set includes golden yellow, red, blue and black
Check out www.teejuice.com for competitions and information
Non-toxic, heat set with an iron
NZ price including GST $39.99
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Chloride
98% anhydrous
Dissolve in boiling water before adding to dyebath. Makes reds, yellow and oranges very bright. Too much tin will make the wool brittle.
NZ price including GST $12.00 per 10g pack
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