Hand Dyed Silk Belly Button Balls

Silk is a 100% natural and renewable fiber, always grown organically. This is tussah silk, a "sustainable" silk produced from wild cocoons.. The well prepared fiber is 4 to 6 inches long and easy to spin. It is also beautiful used in silk fusion and adds shimmer to wool felt designs.

Silk is as warm as cashmere, 4 times warmer than wool and wicks moisture away from your skin, as wool would. Silk retains its insulating capacity even when wet. Silk is naturally fire resistant. Silk is lustrous, soft, elegant, smooth, wonderful next to your skin, and naturally electrostatic. Silk doesn't give up its electrons easily, so it protects your precious energy from escaping, unlike machine made, petroleum based synthetic fibers. If you've ever touched the door handle of your car on a dry, sunny winter day wearing manmade fibers you will appreciate the protection of silk, worn against your skin.

I had the opportunity to test the efficiency of silk's electrostatic properties this winter. We were at -30C and the air was alive with static electricity. My children delighted in the sparks that flew out from their fingers as they shuffled their wool socked feet across the nylon carpet in our log house. Their special fun was touching one of their parents on the cheek or finger, just to hear the spark! I wore a silk blouse one day and found that although the child received a double shock for his trouble when he tried to shock me, I felt no shock at all, just a faint tingle on my skin. A silk scarf or wrist warmers also offered some protection, while keeping the wearer warm, as well.

Our silk rovings are hand dyed in all seven of our Joybilee Farm Signature Colourways, and several one of a kind colorways--not to be repeated. They are wonderful for hand spinning, carding with other fibers, or as the basis of your own novelty yarns. They can also be used for silk fusion or silk paper making.

Our rovings are special because they are hand dyed and one of a kind. Variations within the roving are intentional and part of the inherent beauty of the hand dyeing process. We dye in small batches using the kettle dye method of multicolour dyeing that we developed at Joybilee Farm, through several years of research and trial. Colours may vary from dyelot to dyelot. If you need a large quantity of one colourway for a special project please contact us.

Our rovings are listed by metric weight. For conversion to imperial measures--28 grams is approx. 1 ounce, 454 grams is approx. 1#. 1000 grams or 1 kg. is a little more than 2 #.

Our handdyed 100% Tussah Silk rovings are $18 per 50 grams (approx. 1.8 ounces)

Colours will vary between batches -- part of the one-of-a-kind, nature of our product.

	"Circus, Circus". Crayon bright colours of evergreen, lime green, ocean blue, true blue, navy, fushia, hot pink, scarlet, true red, violet, purple, golden yellow, sunshine yellow, lavender. We use 5 primary colours and a multitude of secondary and tertiary colours to create this vibrant, playful colourway. 50 gram (approx. 1.8 oz) ball of 100% tussah silk roving $18 Every roving is one of a kind and will not be exactly as pictured.
	"Autumn in the Rockies" is inspired by the colours of the aspen, poplar, maple and tamarack trees along the No. 3 highway between us and the Alberta Border., in October. Olive Green, golden orange, rust, teal, navy, yellow, evergreen, grass green, brown, scarlet adorn this roving. 50 gram (approx. 1.8 oz) ball of 100% tussah silk roving $18 Every roving is one of a kind and will not be exactly as pictured.
	Fire! - The summer of 2003 will long be remembered here in the Kootenay Boundary as the Summer of the Fires. This colourway was inspired by our drives through Oosoyoos, Kelowna, and Chase during their devastating fires, when the mountainside lit up with the candling pine trees, against the black sky. Lipstick Red, Scarlet, Fushia, Burgundy, Blue Red, Christmas Red, with a hint of purpley red and charred red. Fire! is red hot when hand dyed in silk. The colours just glow. 50 gram (approx. 1.8 oz) ball of 100% tussah silk roving $18 Every roving is one of a kind and will not be exactly as pictured.
	Mountain Meadow is the cool colors of an alpine meadow, with its gurgling brook, in midsummer. Sunshine yellow, grass green, sage green, evergreen, teal, navy, sky blue, true blue, alfalfa green and pale cream highlight this colourway. 50 gram (approx. 1.8 oz) ball of 100% tussah silk roving $18 Every roving is one of a kind and will not be exactly as pictured.
	Westcoast Sunset is the colour of the evening sky in the summer in the Lower Mainland. Fuschia, peach, burgundy, red, pink, purple, violet, true blue, navy, soft white for calming times as the end of a perfect day. 50 gram (approx. 1.8 oz) ball of 100% tussah silk roving $18 Every roving is one of a kind and will not be exactly as pictured.
	This colourway, Winter Nights, is inspired by the lumination of the full moon against a Winter sky, overlooking a snowy pasture, the whole scene framed in the silhouette of pine trees and mountain side--this is the view I have through my studio window tonight, as I sit at my spinning wheel. Rich jewel tones of burgundy, navy, lapis lazuli, fuschia, scarlet, moonlight white, deep true blue, royal purple, amethyst, indigo, true red. This is a deeper, richer colourway along the same hues as Westcoast Sunset. 50 gram (approx. 1.8 oz) ball of 100% tussah silk roving $18 Every roving is one of a kind and will not be exactly as pictured.
	Blue Danube Waltz: Dancing streams tripping along the shoreline, through the meadows, reflect the clouds and blueness of sky in their calm pools. Can you see the brook trout, hiding in the shadows? True blue, sky blue, indigo, grey, navy, prussian blue, ultramarine, teal, with creamy white, and pastel blue. A very calm and confident colourway. 50 gram (approx. 1.8 oz) ball of 100% tussah silk roving $18 Every roving is one of a kind and will not be exactly as pictured.

These same colourways are also available in wool roving and silk throwster's waste so that you can create a truly uncommon yarn or felt piece.

Don't want to use your credit card online? Phone Robin at Joybilee Farm (toll free: 1-866-954-9665) and we'd be happy to accept your order over the phone. Contact us for more information.

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