Yarn Notes
Yarn Specs
The Brand

STUNNING 100% certified sustainable, organic traceable cashmere yarn, hand-dyed by Chroma Nima. This yarn is ultra special.

The dyed yarn is in 20g skeins (75m), and the undyed (Snow) is 50g (187m).

The inspiration for this colour palette are the misty woods of Richmond Park when walking the dog, when driving along in the countryside looking through the hedgerows or taking a Sunday stroll through a National Trust forest. The colours of the English countryside: chestnut, oak, holly, blackberries; ubiquitous in autumn and so intense against the blue sky, or glowing in the morning mist. A reminder to appreciate the time before cold monochrome winter sets in.

This yarn is a thick 4 ply or sock weight yarn, perfect for the cold weather.

100% certified sustainable, organic traceable cashmere yarn.
Ingredients:
100% Cashmere

Length:
187m per 50g skein, 75m per 20g skein

Weight:
50g or 20g

Gauge:
Fingering weight
chroma - the purity of a colour or its freedom from white or grey

nima - thread or yarn

Chroma Nima's creator, Vicky Streater, lives in Wimbledon with her husband, three children and gorgeous greyhound. She is passionate about colour and the environment, and obsessed by colour gradients and the mechanics of how colours change from one to the other. She loves natural dyes for their serendipity and refusal to be predictable. She loves the quietness of the process of knitting, how it's so creative, meditative and useful.

Her cashmere is certified organic, traceable and sustainable with an average fibre length of 34 - 38mm at less than 16 microns. The sustainable commercial dyes she uses are very "wash and light fast", and are founders of the global Responsible Care® initiative and a signatory to the United Nations Global Compact. The organic botanical dyes she works with have been chosen for their light and wash fast qualities.

All of her packaging is from recycled paper and are recyclable. The electricity used to dye her yarn is from renewable sources. She has experimented with reducing the amount of water in her dyeing, and now only uses a third of what she used to. She doesn't use toxic auxiliaries or mordants and takes care to ensure her dye baths are fully exhausted.

Chroma Nima

Chroma Nima 4Ply Cashmere Mini Skeins