Arenque Cowl Kit For Sale

Description

Arenque Cowl Kit

• Kit Notes
• Kit Specs
• The Brand

• Knit this elegant herringbone cowl with gorgeous, squishy Franca: 100% incredibly soft merino, super chunky, yarn, full of personality.  

  Your Kit includes:
  • 1 x 150g hank
  • PDF Pattern delivered by email

  You will also need:
  • 12mm (US #17) needles or size to obtain tension
  • Tapestry needle
  • 2 x 2cm (1”) buttons or a Jūl fastener

  SIZE

  18cm (7”) wide x 58cm (23”) circumference
  
  TENSION
  14 st x 11 rows in 10cm (4”) in herringbone pattern

• Ingredients: 100% superwash merino

  Length: 105m (114yd) per 150g skein

  Weight: 150g

  Gauge: 14 st x 11 rows in 10cm (4”) in herringbone pattern

• Manos del Uruguay was town in 1968 out of a simple question: How can we improve the life of Uruguayan rural women?

  Manos was founded to given women jobs that would allow them to provide for their families, be independent and self-develop while staying in their home villages and keeping their roots and traditional skills.

  40 years on, Manos has grown to be a very special non-profit organisation, owned by the women themselves, focused on a product that is sustainable, ethical and beautiful.  This was acknowledged by the World Fair Trade Organisation (WFTO) by welcoming Manos as members in 2009.

  Manos are almost unique for a commercial brand in that they still spin their yarns by hand.
  
  The secret to their incredible colours lies in the artisanal process of patient kettle dyeing in small pots using precise colour recipes and time honoured techniques, combined with 40 years of research and experimentation.  This process creates the subtle nuances in their striated colours as well as the fantastical shading in space-dyed yarns.  They dye the same skein up to 6 times to achieve the complexity of a true piece of art.  After dying, yarns are sun-dried.

  No two skeins are exactly the same and every skein carries the signature of the craftswoman who made it, together with the name of the locality and the cooperative where it was made. 

  The main content in their yarns is wool from their local sheep farmers.  Sheep in Uruguay graze freely on natural grass pastures and are mulling free.

  Knitting with Manos is a unique experience for the senses and the soul.