You know the joy and sheer satisfaction of turning beautiful wool into favourite garments? Well, you’re going to love vintage 23!  It’s the latest yarn blend from Wool Decanted and, in keeping with their aim to create the softest British yarns, vintage 23 is right up there on the softness scale.  It’s deliciously next to skin soft! 

How did they produce such a soft yarn?

By choosing their fibres carefully.  Starting first with the white of Falklands Polwarth with its long staple length which produces a strong, smooth, and silky yarn and is soft enough to be worn next to the skin, they added some white Romney fibre from Kent, with a long and lustrous staple, and well-defined crimp, adding a bit of depth and strength to the blend. Knowing from experience with previous vintages that adding a small amount of coloured fleece to the white would create a uniquely coloured base, they added just a touch of black Shetland fibre to the white. Rich black Scottish Shetland locks, from the softest part of the Shetland fleece, mixed with the pure white of the Polwarth and Romney created a beautiful, natural, light heathery grey base.

What about the colours?

Dyed as blended tops, the light grey base has allowed for colour of a special richness in their 8-colour palette.  You will be able to create some great colour combinations, and the natural grey works with all of them! They’ve replicated many of their existing colours in this vintage and added the natural grey, Bottle Green, Claret and Island Dusk (a beautiful dusky pink).

How was it spun?

Worsted-spun in West Yorkshire to our specification, vintage 23 has excellent stitch definition, perfect for texture and colour work, and it blooms beautifully when blocked.

Yarn weight: 4ply / fingering (2/9nm)
Skein weight: 50g
Meterage: 225m/246yds approx. per 50g skein
Fibre composition: Polwarth, Romney, Black Shetland
Care: Handwash. Do not tumble dry. Do not iron.

Fibre Content: 100% superfine Geelong lambswool
Skein weight: 50g
Meterage: 205m per 50g
Recommended Needle size: 3.25mm
Gauge: 28 sts per 10cm
Washing: Hand wash only

Please note this yarn is not scoured before winding into skeins which means it needs to be washed after knitting in order to bloom into its beautifully soft final state.

Scroll down to see the colours available and to read more about this yarn.

This yarn is also available in 20g mini-skeins here

Along avec Anna merino is traceable to the farm, certified non-mulesed, and REACH compliant, meaning that no harmful chemicals have been used.

• 100% superwash merino

• Ball : 50g

• Meterage : 200m

• Gauge : 25 – 28m for 10 cm in 3 to 3.5mm needles if knit alone.

• Can be knit double or with a thread of mohair to get a DK weight gauge.

• Washable on wool programme

The raw materials for our yarns come from South Africa. Our spinning mill is RMS / RWS and oeko-tex certified, which ensures the wool is produced with respect for animals, humans and the environment. (See below for more detail about these processes.)