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Exmoor Sock 4ply

Exmoor Sock 4ply

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Exmoor Sock 4ply

Exmoor Sock 4ply

Regular price £12.00
Regular price Sale price £12.00
Sale Sold out
Exmoor Sock Yarn

Sock and 4ply/Fingering: 200m per 50g / 218 yds per 50g

60% Exmoor Blueface SW / 20% Falklands Corriedale SW / 10% Zwartbles / 10% Nylon

Exmoor Sock is a trusty favourite around these parts, celebrating our Devon surroundings with local fibre in shades named in our traditional dialect of years gone by. It’s a workhorse yarn, hard wearing and perfect for creating your favourite, cosy socks, but it’s also dreamy in any 4ply project you can think of.  

Our Exmoor Sock yarn enhances the durable character and bounce of the fibre from our local Exmoor Blueface sheep – a cross breed of the Exmoor Horn (full bodied and hard-wearing) and the Bluefaced Leicester (renowned for its softness and lustre). 

We’ve added Falklands Corriedale to enhance softness and stitch definition, naturally dark Zwartbles giving extra bounce and a subtle fleck of colour, and a touch of Nylon for added strength and durability. 

Our Exmoor Sock yarn not only celebrates Exmoor, but is designed to be perfect for socks, whilst still having the versatility to suit garments and accessories that relish a hard wearing, machine washable yarn. It is available in 50g skeins for added versatility in small projects – making it easier to mix and match colours for stripes and contrast details. 

SW = superwash

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Specifications

Thickness: 4ply / Fingering: 200m per 50g | 218 yds per 50g

Blend: 60% Exmoor Blueface SW / 20% Falklands Corriedale SW / 10% Zwartbles / 10% Nylon

Gauge: We do not give a recommended needle/hook size for our yarns, as everyone’s gauge is subtly different. It is possible to achieve quite a wide range of gauges with this yarn. A tighter gauge (more sts per cm/inch) will create a denser fabric and a looser gauge (fewer sts) will create a drapier fabric.

If you are substituting yarn for a pattern, we recommend comparing the meterage. If your yarn is within 25 metres of the given yarn per 100g then you should be able to happily get the correct gauge.

Colour Blending: We start with solid coloured tops (aligned fibre) and blend our nuanced, heathered shades using precise recipes. If you look closely at any of our yarns, you’ll see that each heathered shade contains a multitude of colours within it.

The entire range is created from a handful of base colours, making it easy to find harmonious colour combos for colourwork projects.  

Worsted Spun: All our yarns are worsted spun. This means the fibres are parallel to each other, giving them greater drape, strength and softness than a woollen spun equivalent would. Learn more about worsted and woollen yarns on our blog.

Fibre Characteristics

Exmoor Blueface: This is our most local sheep and can be seen dotted across the Moorland where we live. A crossbreed of the Exmoor Horn (our local hill sheep) and the distinguished Bluefaced Leicester (the softest British sheep breed), the Exmoor Blueface sheep produces a beautifully soft and springy fibre which is excellent in just about any blend. Micron: 31; Average Staple Length: 9cm/3.5”

Falklands Corriedale: This fibre has a good long staple length, is smooth with a hint of lustre and oodles of bounce. The breed is derived from a cross of the Merino sheep and Lincoln Longwool. Micron: 29; Average Staple Length: 12.5cm/5”

Zwartbles: The breed originates from Friesland in The Netherlands, but is now widely farmed across Exmoor. They are a naturally dark brown sheep with distinctive white accents on their face, legs and tails. The fibre is voluminous and incredibly bouncy, when added to a blend it creates a wonderful depth of tone. Micron: 35; Average Staple Length:9cm/3.5”

Nylon: This is a type of synthetic fiber known for its strength, elasticity, and resistance to wear and tear. This durability makes nylon the ideal fibre to combine with wool in sock yarn, greatly extending the life of your hand made sock. 3 Denier; Average Staple Length: 9cm/3.5”

Wool Blend

This base is a Traceable Wool Blend with either alpaca, nylon or silk added. The UK portion of this fibre purchased from the British Wool Marketing Board (BWMB) uses their new traceability scheme meaning that all the wool is fully traceable back to the exact farm it came from. We know which farmer, in which area, contributed to every bale of wool we process, including how many sheep produced their share. 
However, our climate here in the UK is not suited to Merino and Corriedale sheep. We make sure to source ours from the Falklands in order to ensure that the animals have been treated with the utmost care and are free from harmful mulesing. 

Care Instructions

We recommend that our yarns are gently washed before use as we don’t do any washing or conditioning after the yarns are spun and skeined. You’ll be amazed by how much the fibre blooms after a soak and it will certainly help you get a more accurate feel for gauge and character of the yarn over time.

Once your piece is finished, we recommend another hand wash before wet blocking the piece to the given dimensions. This will set all your stitches and guarantee that your garment looks its best.

Learn more about caring for your yarn on our blog.

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