WH - Le Gros Lambswool B2B

Knitting Needles (suggested)
5 mm / US8 / UK6
5.5mm / US9 / UK5

Gauge
16-18 sts = 10cm / 4”

Composition
100% Lambswool (first shearing)
Cross-breads (Merino excluded)

Colors
Le Gros Lambswool presents a smaller range of colors, very earthy tones for big sweaters. We love the color palette of our Lambswool collection, very natural looking, which never cease to inspire us

How to wash
Always handwash and lay flat to dry — Handle with care and make sure to stretch your knit to measurements while wet

About Le Gros Lambswool
Le Gros Lambswool is part of our little woolen family of Le Petit Lambswool, Le Lambswool, Le Gros Lambswool. The three are the same wool, just of different thread sizes, for different projects! Le Gros Lambswool is a beautiful wool & prepared with the special Scottish traditional & savoir faire, spun and dyed in a family-owned fiber mill in Scotland with long term savoir faire and expertise. Its composition is of 100% Lambswool, the first shearing of the sheep, an absolutely beautiful quality. It is completely natural with its rustic charm all the while being very soft to knit with and wear. It has also been scoured and steam damped, so no traces of spinning oil and added loftiness.

The ball bands are designed at the Atelier and printed in the surroundings of our partner taking a lot of care of the part of the process where the wool becomes small yarn balls, and each label manually added to each yarn ball. We love a crafted and handmade look, which always leave small traces of imperfections, which for us, are part of the charm of natural wool and of Biches & Bûches.

Weight
Classified as an Aran weight, it is woollen spun, giving it a lofty, airy texture and natural warmth. It has a soft and authentic expression. Le Gros Lambswool is perfect for sweaters, cardigans, and accessories.

Colors
Le Gros Lambswool presents a smaller range of colors, very earthy tones for big sweaters.We love the color palette of our Lambswool collection, very natural looking, which never cease to inspire us, and opens the words for so may ideas and creations.

Knots
If you find a knot in your skein, why does it happen?
Our yarn is 100% lambswool, woolen-spun using traditional methods from Scotland and Britain, on a small, artisanal scale. Because woolen-spun fibres travel in many directions — giving the yarn its characteristic softness and loft, and part of why it is so amazing — they can, during the winding process, hook back onto themselves. It has to be cut and re-joined by hand, and as such, creating a knot. This isn't a defect. Because each ball is wound at high speed with one person tending to many cones at the same time, the number of knots can vary — there's simply no way to know in advance. You can treat each one just as you would when changing a skein — join the ends and weave them in. The far great majority of our yarn balls and skeins don't have any knots, but if it happens, this is why. The core of Biches & Bûches is about honouring the natural fibers, the beauty of nature, and manual traditional processes produced specifically, and these can naturally lead to knots.

Behind the Story
When starting to think about a woolen company, Astrid was in search of the yarn she wanted to knit her designs with and to offer in our boutique.
She was looking for something rustic, that reminded her of her trip to Norway in 1995 when she re-discovered the pure wool from the Norwegian sheep, as well as her Scandinavian roots.
A yarn that would make a sturdy sweater, to be worn throughout the years. And that rustic yarn would have to be blended with a soft feeling, that felt good knitting with, and of course, that felt good wearing too.
She found the wool that she was looking for in Scotland and it has become the heart of our yarn collection and designs.

We hope that you will like it as much as we do!