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>>> Adele's of South Africa

Novelty handcrafted Mohair yarns and accessories

		Left: Adele's mohair yarn with re-cycled sari silk knobs; Far left: Adele's staff enjoying work outdoors Below: Beaded mohair yarn with lurex thread in multiple shades Below right second row: Mohair boucle yarn with re-cycled fluffy mohair knobs. Bottom row: Scarf in mohair boucle with beaded yarn feature.

Beaded yarn shades clockwise from left side of each pic: Red, Wildberries, Plum / Lavender, Grey, Denim / Olive, Light Green (fluffy knobs yarn) , Black. Other colours not shown: Baby Pink & Buttercup
	About Adele's yarn. Adele, an enterprising South African woman is helping to empower local, often disadvantaged women through an innovative handcraft business, producing unique designer yarns and garments. Adele and her 25 employees specialise in using locally available mohair and merino, combined with man made fibres to create some stunning effects. You can now share in this worthwhile enterprise and benefit from these talented women by purchasing some of their wonderful products, now offered exclusively in Australia by Lara Downs.
Some images containing people courtesy Be Sweet and South Seas websites

	Avril Yarns from Kyoto Japan, is another innovative company creating many unique yarns using all kinds of materials and a vast array of techniques. Lara Downs' selection from Avril has been made primarily with Felter's in mind, although the yarns can also be used for knitting. All three yarns shown here felt beautifully as they are either pure wool or wool blend fibres and have not been treated chemically to prevent felting.

Merino Wool Roving Shade numbers down each column MR1- MR4	Woolley Wonder Shade numbers down the column WW1-WW5	Cat Tails Shade numbers down the column CT1-CT4





Roving is available in 4 variegated tones as shown, or natural fawn or in any Lara Downs colourway (eg Real Red above). 100% wool	Woolley Wonder is a thick & thin yarn, & great for felting or knitting. Felted sample shown above 95% wool, 5 % nylon.	Cat Tails are a decorative and fun yarn for embellishment or creative knits . See sample below. 91% wool, 9% nylon
		At left is a felting work in progress. Judy has used Avril Woolley Wonder WW4 as an embellishment for her Nuno felted Wrap. The wrap is a sandwich of Silk tissue, Merino/Silk Lap and Woolley Wonder on top. The finished effect was fabulous. (pictured during a Cobweb Felt workshop at Precious Purl).
Above is a section of knitted fabric using a combination of Cat Tails (CT1) and Kool Kid boucle yarn in shades of Charcoal, Winter in Fitzroy and Silver Mist. These yarns work well together and make a very interesting fabric using both garter stitch and twisted drop stitich.