Summary

This is a worsted weight yarn manufactured by Peru Naturtex Partners and sold through ecobutterfly.com. Pakucho is both Fair Trade and Vegan Yarn. Made in Peru.

How is it used

Suitable for use in the production of textiles, sewing, crocheting, knitting, weaving, embroidery and ropemaking.

How is it made

Naturally pigmented cotton and fine textiles have been produced for nearly five millennia in Peru, constituting the oldest recorded tradition of spinning and weaving in human history. Over a decade of ethnographic, botanical and archaeological research by the Native Cotton Project of Peru, trademarked in 1994 as Pakucho, has led to the identification of pre-Columbian farming techniques for sustained cotton harvesting and environmental resource management. As steward of this unique genetic resource, Pakucho has recovered a wide range of naturally colored cotton fiber, including cream, beige, brown, rust, chocolate, mauve, green and other earthy tones. No dyes, chemicals or other synthetic processes have been used to grow, soften, or color the fibers of these original fabric creations.

Pakucho is the first Latin American enterprise to develop, spin and weave naturally colored and organically grown cotton fiber on an industrial scale. The company offerers carded and combed, as well as open end, yarns, in counts from Ne 6/1 to 36/1, in natural white, beige, brown, green, chocolate and mauve colored fibers.

Technical specifications

Each hank is 50g (1.75oz) and 81m (88yds.). The average needle sizes are #7 (5 sts = 1”), #8 (4.5 sts = 1”) and #9 (4 sts = 1”).

This yarn has a 10-15% shrinkage in the length if you machine dry it and it will get darker with repeated machine drying. If you do not want the color to change or to avoid shrinkage, wash in cool water and lay flat to dry.