Plant dyed embroidery thread/weaving yarn
- 100% wool
- dyed in weld (Reseda luteola)
- 20 m in one skein
- very strong (dedicated weaving yarn)
This yellow were made thanks to weld (Reseda luteola).
Weld is a very old dyeing plant – it was identified on textile fragments from the Iron Age and possibly it was used even in the Neolithic period. It was one of the favourites dyestuff in Anglo-Saxon England, known also by the Vikings, still widely used in medieval Europe and even later, up to the introducing modern chemical dyes.