Lara Downs: Mohair, Angoraglow Natural Fibre Products, Mohair Yarns, Mohair Supplies, Knitting, Felting, spinning, Fine Wool Merinos, Mohair Blends

What's New at Lara Downs (retail outlet at 101 Victoria St Fitzroy, Melbourne )

Felting is such a popular textile art form, we are now offering lengths of silk tissue hand dyed in our 2008 colourways specifically for Nuno felting. These tissue lengths are unhemmed and measure approx 2.25 mts x 90 cm. to allow for shrinkage during the felting process.

Shade shown is "Parakeet" No. 38

Hand dyed silk tissue is also now available in thin strips for use in creative needlework, knitting, embroidery and embellishment.

Our merino wool top can be ordered in the same colorway range or solid shades to blend with the silk

Our model is draped in a black mohair boucle wrap from Adele's of South Africa. Available in black or natural.

Pricing: Silk tissue wrap lengths $26.50, Wool top $12/100 gms, Silk tissue strips in mixed shades $10.00/pack of 4

Mohair wrap $95.00

Hand dyed Silk Tissue in wrap lengths

Silk strips

Merino Wool Top in matching colourways

Kid mohair wrap in super fine boucle mohair by Adele's of South Africa.

Available now at 101 Victoria St Fitzroy or by email order.

Angoraglow & Enchant now back in stock.

After six months of waiting for our fibre to be processed, we can once again offer "Angoraglow", our unique product which caused a mini sensation at this year's Bendigo Sheep Show. Customers loved the super soft handle of the yarn as well as the magnificent lustre shown off to perfection in soft variegated shades.

'Enchant", the lovely silk and fine kid mohair stranded yarn is also now available for ordering. At left top is Angoraglow in Blueberry (variegated) and bottom, Enchant in Blueberry (solid). See our yarns page for more details.

Pricing: Angoraglow 2 ply $12/40 gms, 4 ply $55/200 gms, Enchant $33/100 gms

Angoraglow Kid Mohair yarn in 2 and 4 ply

Enchant stranded Silk and Kid mohair yarn (4 ply)

Exciting mohair yarns from South Africa (Adele's mohair)

An exciting development for Lara Downs is the forging of a new relationship with an enterprising group of women from South Africa who are using their handcraft skills to improve their livelihood. We now have stocks of their fabulous Knobbly fancy yarn, all hand dyed and spun, as well as a very special beaded yarn in a variety of shades. The super fine mohair boucle yarn, also from Adele's, teams well with either fancy yarn and we have knitting kits available which take advantage of all three yarns. Some of their products are shown below.

Individual yarns by Adele's are detailed on our yarns page.

Knobbly Mohair handspun yarn

Beaded mohair yarn

$15.50/50 gms

Super fine mohair boucle yarn

$5.90/25 gms

Luxury Yarn Tasters

Given the popularity of embellishment as an art form, Lara Downs is now offering many of it's luxury natural hand dyed yarns in the small "taster" size of 10 gms. Packs contain three different yarns in the same or similar colourway to enable artists to select yarns which will compliment their favoured colour scheme.

Order by colourway or select from the packs available at Fitzroy.

Yarn Taster packs

$16.50 / 30 gms

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