Saona by Wooldreamers

Yarn Notes Yarn Specs The Brand Wool AND cotton together! It's a great combo. We've had our eye on Saona by Wooldreamers for a while, but we were waiting for the colour palette to grow before bringing it to Tribe. And now it has :) Saona is a gorgeous 50% local Spanish wool / 50% Andalusian cotton fingering-weight yarn, combining two locally sourced fibres into something that feels quite different from either a pure wool or a pure cotton yarn. The cotton brings lightness, breathability and drape; the wool brings warmth, body and bounce. The result is a beautifully balanced fabric that's light enough for tees and transitional knits, but with enough woolly warmth to make a proper sweater too. Saona's palette has grown into a collection of wonderfully nuanced, heathered shades with little flecks and shifts of colour running through them. They have depth without being busy, and look especially gorgeous knitted into simple stocking stitch, texture and colourwork. It's a woollen-spun, 2-ply fingering weight, so it has plenty of character and makes a fabric that feels light rather than dense. We really love its stitch definition, drape, warmth and the fact that it creates a surprisingly lightweight garment. But it's also a treat held double, or alongside silk mohair. This is NOT a superwash, ultra-smooth, characterless yarn - and thank goodness for that. As with all Wooldreamers yarns, there is a little rusticity here. And plenty of character. Saona is the name of the river where Wooldreamers' grandfather Julián and his sons Teodoro and Ramón would take their mule-drawn cart loaded with wool fleeces. They spent their days there washing the wool before it was dried, carded, spun and eventually woven into blankets. The yarn is a tribute to those generations before them - but made very much for the way we want to knit and dress now. The colours were developed in collaboration with designer Hailey Smedley of Ozetta, whose own love of knitting also began with family - she was taught by her grandmother. Local wool. Local cotton. Made in Spain. Beautifully woolly, wonderfully wearable and now, finally, enough colours for us to get properly excited about it 😊. Ingredients: 50% Local Spanish Wool 50% Andalusian Cotton Length: 220m (241yd) Weight: 50g Gauge: Fingering (2 ply) Needle size: 2.5mm - 3.5mm Crochet hook: 3.5mm - 4.5mm Made in: Spain Sustainable Yarn with Social Awareness Wooldreamers was created by the 4th Generation of our Family Mill where the family work with every stage of wool: from the sheep to the yarn. The Wooldreamers project aims to be part of the solution to the critical problem of Spanish wool being undervalued, and in some cases treated as waste due to global market conditions. Nowadays, our family mill covers all stages of Spanish wool production, right from shearing the sheep to spinning the yarn under the same roof. This means we are the only ones treating the wool from the very beginning. So we can guarantee the quality of yarn, with minimum carbon emissions AND we can guarantee the traceability of our yarn from the sheep to your hands. We have been working very closely with local Spanish farmers on the adoption of preferable techniques and sharing knowledge in order to produce the very best yarn, always focusing on animal welfare. Wooldreamers is a project that pays special attention to sustainability and traceability, helping farmers continue caring for their flocks, supporting local wool and keeping generations of Spanish textile knowledge alive. And they don't stop at the wool. In the planning and production of their collections, Wooldreamers also collaborates with people with disabilities at risk of social exclusion, who help with the labelling and preparation of their yarns. @wooldreamers - Instagram