Ancient Threads Farm Superwash Merino Fingering Yarn, Lac, Black Walnut & Logwood Purple Dye Lot 6A

A single 100 g hank of Ancient Threads Farm's Tri base — superwash merino fingering — hand-dyed in three natural plant pigments: lac (warm rose pink), black walnut (rich golden brown), and logwood (dusty purple). The skein reads as walnut-brown shifting through a rose-pink stripe and back into golden-brown with quiet purple shadows. Dye lot is hand-marked 6A on the original band; natural-dye recipes shift batch to batch, so this exact colour can't be repeated.

This listing is for 1 skein of Ancient Threads Farm Tri in color Lac, Black Walnut & Logwood Purple — dye lot 6A.

About the yarn:

Tri is Ancient Threads Farm's small-batch superwash merino fingering — a smooth 3-ply, 481 yards in a 100 g skein, with the round, springy hand that takes plant dye well without the colour going chalky in the knit fabric. The natural-dye palette is hand-painted: lac for the rose-pink, black walnut for the brown, logwood for the purple, all over a clean superwash merino base that washes the way commercial sock yarn washes (machine wool cycle, lay flat). Gauge sits at 7–8 sts/inch on US 1–3 (2.25–3.25 mm). Yardage is generous for a fingering skein — enough for a deep cowl, a shawlette, or paired with a coordinating solid for a colour-blocked accessory.

• Fingering weight
• Composition: 100% superwash merino
• Weight: 100 g
• Yardage: 481 yds
• Needle: 2.25–3.25 mm
• Construction: 3-ply
• Care: Machine wash gentle (wool cycle), lay flat to dry

About Ancient Threads Farm Tri:

Ancient Threads Farm is a small fibre farm in upstate New York — Melrose, NY — running since 1996 from a flock of Shetland and Icelandic sheep. The farm's hand-dye work is done on small commercial bases like this Tri merino fingering and sold mainly through their Etsy shop (AncthdsFarm). What makes their work distinctive is the natural-dye practice: every colourway is mixed from plant pigments — lac, black walnut, logwood, indigo, madder — and the dye recipe for this skein is hand-written on the band. Natural plant dyes don't repeat the way acid dyes do; the colour shifts with the season, the water, the mordant, and the specific batch of dyestuff. A skein marked dye lot 6A is one of a small handful from a single dye day, and the next 6A won't read the same.