Yarn Yarn

RED eri silk yarn. Ahimsa silk yarn.

£29.00
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Organic Red Eri silk yarn is also known as endi and errand. Eri silk is the product of the silkworm that feeds on golden brown leaves. This peace silk is a very popular 100% pure silk as the silkworm is not boiled with the cocoon so we therefore call it peace silk

It is AMAZING to knit with. Popular for baby blankets, shawls, wraps, dresses and hats because of its moisture absorbent quality.

The production of peace silk yarn also allows the metamorphosis of the silkworm to a butterfly and the trees where the silk worm grows are not treated with insecticides or generic sprays. They grow in the wild so to speak. This remarkable silk is spun into yarn in rural India by women. It is a sustainable product produced using ancient techniques keeping rural India's traditions alive.

In conventional cultivated silk like mulberry silk the cocoons are boiled with the larvae still inside, however if the cocoons are boiled after the larvae have left them the silk made is then called non-violent silk, wild silk, organic silk.