Town End Yarns produce luxurious knitting wools in beautiful colours and from natural fibres. Although now retired from breeding alpacas in the Lake District, they still use their knowledge of alpaca fibre to make a variety of alpaca blend yarns. They love fleece and are fascinated by the different characteristics of British sheep – I select the finest, softest fibres for their yarns.
‘Morecambe’ is a British Blue Faced Leicester & Alpaca DK wool. The Blue Faced Leicester wool comes from farms in the Yorkshire Dales and has been carefully graded on the farm. This wool has been blended with British grown alpaca and spun in Yorkshire to produce a soft, springy double knitting yarn. Click here for shades
Fibre: 70% Bluefaced Leicester, 30% Alpaca
Weight: 50g
Length: 125m
Care: Cold Handwash
Whitbarrow’ is alpaca combined with merino wool and silk to produce a fingering knitting yarn in an exclusive blend which has been spun in the UK. This luxurious Fingering weight knitting wool is a blend of 45% Peruvian baby alpaca, 35% superfine, organic Falklands Merino wool and 20% Mulberry silk. Whitbarrow Alpaca fingering yarn has been dyed in the Scottish Borders in a wide range of solid colours.
This yarn is super-soft and is ideal for knitting shawls, scarves. It is light-weight yet cozy and is great for knitting tops that you will wear next to your skin.
Fibre: 70% Alpaca, 20% cashmere, 20% silk
Weight: 100g
Length: 400m
Care: Cold Handwash
