Wool Throw / Peace Fleece: Grasshopper with Amaranth Band

$165.00

A soft wool throw with a fine halo of wool and mohair that can keep you warm in winter or on a chilly evening…

I wove this throw with two different wool yarns: a Maine yarn called “Peace Fleece” (the “weft’) against Shetland-style yarn (the “warp”) spun in Harrisville, NH.

The Peace Fleece foreground yarn is a soft green (“Anna’s Grasshopper”) with a band of garnet (“Amaranth”). The Peace Fleece yarns are woven on Harrisville’s silver, lilac, and hemlock.

85 % wool, 15% mohair.

Dimensions: 35” wide by 50” long (excluding 2” fringes).

Care: hand wash in cool to lukewarm water with a wool wash; gently wring in a towel, and lay out to air dry.

A soft wool throw with a fine halo of wool and mohair that can keep you warm in winter or on a chilly evening…

I wove this throw with two different wool yarns: a Maine yarn called “Peace Fleece” (the “weft’) against Shetland-style yarn (the “warp”) spun in Harrisville, NH.

The Peace Fleece foreground yarn is a soft green (“Anna’s Grasshopper”) with a band of garnet (“Amaranth”). The Peace Fleece yarns are woven on Harrisville’s silver, lilac, and hemlock.

85 % wool, 15% mohair.

Dimensions: 35” wide by 50” long (excluding 2” fringes).

Care: hand wash in cool to lukewarm water with a wool wash; gently wring in a towel, and lay out to air dry.

This Peace Fleece yarn is some of the last spun at the Porter, Maine farm. First produced in the 1980s, this yarn carries an interesting back story. The first Peace Fleece yarns were a collaboration between the Soviet and two Maine farmers who challenged that doing business itself could aid nuclear deterrence: “Warm wool from a Cold War”.

Harrisville Design in NH has taken over production and still collaborates with Navajo producers.

The Peace Fleece yarns in this throw were sourced from Rambouillet wool from the Navajo and Cheyenne nations, Texas mohair, and Merino/Dorset wool produced at Cottage Hill in Ohio, a land grant farm signed into being by James Madison in 1816. This shifted sourcing continues a tradition of blending cultures through fiber.

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