Sustainable plant colored organic handspun Cherry Red 100% Baby/Royal alpaca yarn

Frisenvang’s beautiful Cherry Red yarn is handspun of organic 100% Baby/Royal alpaca wool.

Frisenvang’s Cherry Red alpaca wool yarn is truly unique, featuring a stunning, intensely saturated color. This yarn is neither red, pink, nor orange, but a blend of all three. The alpaca yarn is plant-dyed using cochineal. Cochineal is a small insect that lives on cactus plants in the Andes Mountains and produces a vibrant pink color.

The yarn is  like the rest of our yarn assortment produced and bought directly from artisans in Peru.

The yarn is delivered in skeins of 100 g

Running length app. 350-400 m per 100 g. 

Knitting tension:

Needles 2 ½:  28 m x 34 rows = 10 x 10 cm

Needles 3:      26 m x 32 rows = 10 x 10 cm

Needles 3 ½:  23 m x 30 rows = 10×10 cm

Needles 4:      21 m x 28 rows = 10 x 10 cm

Running length app. 250-300 m per 100 g. 

Knitting tension:

Needles 3:      26 m x 36 rows = 10×10 cm

Needles 3 ½:  24 m x 34 rows = 10 x 10 cm

Needles 4:      22 m x 32 rows = 10 x 10 cm

Needles 4 ½:  20 m x 30 rows = 10 x 10 cm

Needles 5:      18 m x 28 rows = 10×10 cm

Please be aware That.

Frisenvang yarns are spun by hand and the amount of meters in a skein is not measured. This means that the yarn thickness and thus the amount of running meters are determined and estimated by the artisans in Marcapata. We can therefore not guarantee 100% that there are the stated amount of meters in a skein of Frisenvang yarn.

The handspinning might result in different thicknesses from skein to skein. Both the nature- and plant dyed yarns can change in colors from production to production but also from skein to skein. We always do our best to pack your order with yarns that are as similar as possible, but as Frisenvang yarns are unica products we don’t accept complaints related to differences in thicknesses or colors. There are however different “tricks” you can use to even out potential differences. It is therefore important to read the information material we enclose your yarn order.

The plant dyed yarn can have access colors and can thus color your hands when you knit. This is due to the fact that no chemicals have been used to prevent access colors which is normally the case with yarn produced in a factory. Our experience is that access colors will be present when you wash the yarn for the first 2-3 times.

When you buy natural yarn from Frisenvang you are contributing to improving living conditions for families in the Andes Mountains who now are living below the poverty line. See more in section ”the good cause”.