By purchasing yarn from String Theory, you’re lifting up a number of small and female-owned businesses. We help women in Rwanda, who survived the genocide, educate a new generation. We help women in Uruguay find meaningful work without leaving their rural homes. We help a family in New Hampshire maintain a mill, a tradition spanning hundreds of years. We help restore the Patagonia Grasslands by encouraging sustainable farming.Every yarn we stock makes a positive impact.
Gather Bulky
$45.00
Never super washed, the yarn in this collection has been naturally mordanted to lock in the color as much as possible. Spinning oils from the mill have been removed using plant based laundry soap. Mitchell Wool then hand dye it themselves using sustainably harvested plants, insects & food waste. This yarn is dyed in small batches, and is available in limited quantities.
The cemel's name is on the inside of the ball band.
Limited Edition
Bulky weight
Farm Specific (with NAMES!) American Camel 60% - 18.2 micron American RAMBOUILLET 40%
woolen spun
non-superwash
plant dyed
150 yd / 100g skein
Pattern Ideas
The Essential Beanie
Chunky Monkey Beanie
Barley Cowl Knit
Snowy River cowl
Chow Fun Cowl
Impact
The reason Sherry and Luke Mitchell decided to become a Yarn Company is to support the effort of bringing back American Fiber production. As a former interior designer Sherry knew all too well how many fabric mills had closed as a result of NAFTA and the increased importation of cheap labor and synthetic fabrics flooding the American market. The impact on rural North Carolina alone is devastating. Families' livelihoods GONE.
When she read Vanishing Fleece, by Clara Parkes it launched a drive to do something to support the wool industry. This is how they wound up with 170+ sheep grazing the rolling hills of their farm in Michigan. But the Mitchell Wool Co farm alone can only responsibly support 200 sheep max. At festivals, farmers of small flocks were encouraging Mitchell Wool to buy their fleeces, because wholesale collectives don't pay nearly the cost of shearing let alone coming close to offsetting the cost to raise sheep in a farm setting ethically. As farmers themselves, they know this cost all too well! Thus, American Fiber by Mitchell Wool was born!