Wool Throw / Peace Fleece: Grassroots 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 warm taupe flecked with reds and turquoise (“Grassroots”) with a band of garnet (“Amaranth”). The Peace Fleece yarns are woven on Harrisville’s hemlock and jade.

85 % wool, 15% mohair.

Dimensions: 35” wide by 43” 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 warm taupe flecked with reds and turquoise (“Grassroots”) with a band of garnet (“Amaranth”). The Peace Fleece yarns are woven on Harrisville’s hemlock and jade.

85 % wool, 15% mohair.

Dimensions: 35” wide by 43” 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. Harrisville Design took over production when the PorterFirst produced in the 1980s, it carries several interesting back stories. The first Peace Fleece yarns were a collaboration between the Soviets and two Maine farmers who challenged through doing business that nuclear deterrence was possible: “Warm wool from a Cold War”.

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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