Ethiopian Handspun Cotton Yarn, Voca Peach + Natural Marled ethically sourced each purchase supports local women

each purchase supports local women and sustainable livelihoods

Due to the limited availability of each pattern

Pale stripes

The ladies of Handspun Hope carefully blend and hand spin the fibers into generous skeins of lavish sport weight yarn before it is hand dyed in baths created from primarily native Rwandan plants

Their spacious custom-created enclosures are imported from the U

Ethiopian Handspun Cotton Yarn, Voca Peach + Natural Marled ethically sourced each purchase supports local womenThis lovely marled cotton yarn is laboriously handspun on a drop spindle in Ethiopia by women working for a small cooperative comprised of single mothers. A single skein of yarn requires approximately 736 yards of handspun yarn. The yarn is then imported into Rwanda where the ladies of Handspun Hope complete the process of dyeing it organically in the single ply. Once the yarn is dry, the spinners then ply the yarn with spinning wheels into a two ply