Silk Laps, 0519-03, 1.2 oz, mulberry silk, nuno, wet felting, spinning fiber, art yarn, handspinning, felting fiber, corespinning, nunofelting BFL Ripe Olive and Grape Juice

Ripe Olive and Grape Juice and all the glorious shades where they meet

Natural brown and gray short BFL x Wensleydale curls/locks with wonderful bleached tips

and a pinch of angelina sparkle

colorful silk threads

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Silk Laps, 0519-03, 1.2 oz, mulberry silk, nuno, wet felting, spinning fiber, art yarn, handspinning, felting fiber, corespinning, nunofelting BFL Ripe Olive and Grape Juice1. 2 oz. Hand dyed mulberry silk laps. Cut across the grain about six inches staple length. This is a one of a kind colorway, definitely not repeatable. What is a silk lap?? When silk cocoons are carded, the shorter, clumpier fibers are left behind on the carding machine drum. The fibers build up and then they are removed in big sheets (each sheet is one lap around the drum). Silk laps are lightly textured with varying lengths of silk fibers and some