Ethiopian Handspun Cotton Yarn, Umutuku merino yarn Approx 55 m / 60

Approx 55 m / 60 yds

Approx 158 m / 173 yds

The beauty of the Montgomery Shawlette is that you can make it as small or as big as you like by following the row repeat

Handcrafted in Ethiopia

the apprentice dye master working for Handspun Hope in northern Rwanda

Ethiopian Handspun Cotton Yarn, Umutuku merino yarn Approx 55 m / 60This lovely cotton yarn is laboriously handspun on a drop spindle in Ethiopia by women working for a small cooperative comprised of single mothers. A single skein of yarn requires approximately 736 yards of handspun yarn. The yarn is then imported into Rwanda where the ladies of Handspun Hope complete the process of dyeing it organically, using cosmos petals, in the single ply. Once the yarn is dry, the spinners then ply the yarn with spinning wheels