6 Ply Hemp Yarn
This 100% Hemp 6 ply yarn is a long line wetspun yarn with great drape and longevity. It comes in a delightful range of vibrant colors. It’s perfect for summer clothing, and items for the home. Available in 100 g skeins. Choose a color from the list below.
Fine Lyte Hemp Yarn
This hemp yarn will light your fire! It is so hot, we call it Lyte Hemp. It is gorgeous, lovely to work with, and made from high quality European Hemp. This wonderful 2-ply yarn has approximately 5,000 yards per pound. Similar in size to 16/2 cotton, weave the Bold Lyte Hemp™ yarns at 30 epi for plain weave, 36 for twills. It currently comes in 23 colors! If you want to use a thinner hemp yarn, click here to see the Bold Lyte Hemp™ yarns.
Choose a color from the swatches shown below, then select your cone size. Scroll down for further information about these wonderful yarns.
Bold Lyte Hemp Yarn
This hemp yarn will light your fire! It is so hot, we call it Lyte Hemp. It is gorgeous, lovely to work with, and made from high quality European Hemp. This wonderful 2-ply yarn has approximately 2,600 yards per pound. Similar in size to 8/2 cotton, weave the Bold Lyte Hemp™ yarns at 20 epi for plain weave, 24 for twills. It currently comes in 25 colors! If you want to use a thinner hemp yarn, click here to see the Fine Lyte Hemp™ yarns.
Choose a color from the swatches shown below, then select your cone size. Colors are available in 4 oz and mini cones. Bleached and Natural yarns are available on 8 oz cones. If you can’t select a size or color that you want, click on the word “clear” right below the cone size dropdown menu. Scroll down for further information about these wonderful yarns.
Super Sliver Sampler
“A little bit of Pima in my life.. a little bit of Hemp by my side…” A little bit of everything! Get a sample of some amazing hemp and cotton to spin your own yarn!
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Hemp Sliver
This Hemp sliver (Untwisted Drawn Out Fibers) is ideal for blending, spinning, and paper making. The fiber length is between 70-100 mm (4-5 inches long). Hemp can be spun wet or dry. Spun wet, it will make a softer yarn. At the end of this product’s life, the organic hemp fabric is 100% biodegradable. Available in natural and bleached (degummed) 4 oz packages.
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Hemp Sample Color Card
Want to see exactly what you’ll get when you order our 3-ply hemp skeins and Lyte Hemp™ Yarns? Order a sample card with actual yarn samples of each yarn!
Right now, the hemp color card includes samples of all the 3 ply hemp colors, as well as a card with the Lyte Hemp™ Yarns.
Polychrome Towel Instructions
Use a rainbow of Bold Lyte Hemp™ yarn to make 6 lovely hand towels. With a 4-shaft draft and a white hemp warp, the brilliant colors of the hemp yarn will warm up your kitchen. Finished size of the towels is approximately 16” x 23”.
Jack’s Shoulder Bag Yarn Collection
Robin Lynde designed this wonderful, ingenious hemp bag to wear over your shoulder or across your body. Sewn from one continuous strip of hemp fabric, the delightful bag has enough pockets and room inside to hold everything you need to take with you! We have collected the Bold Lyte Hemp™ yarns to make Jack’s Shoulder Bag as shown in Little Looms 2023 Winter Edition from Long Thread Media, page 62. You will need to purchase the instructions from Long Thread Media. Click here for the pattern.
And there are additional colorways shown online with Long Thread Media. Click here to see the description of those other colorways.
Enchanted Windowpane Towels
Combine a hemp warp with 5 colors of 10/2 American Maid™ naturally colored cotton to weave 5 lovely fingertip towels (finished size approximately 13” x 24”). The hemp yarn is our Bold Lyte™ Hemp yarn, and we make the American Maid™ yarns from cotton grown here in the American west and spun in the US. When you wash the finished towels with baking soda, the color of the naturally colored cotton yarns will deepen. The green cotton is especially affected by the alkalinity of the wash water. And, the colors will deepen over time.
Lyte Hemp Collections
Would you like a collection of Lyte Hemp™ Yarns? These collections have mini cones of all the colors we have in stock right now.
The yarn comes in two sizes: Bold and Fine. Bold Lyte Hemp™ is a wonderful 2-ply yarn with approximately 2,600 Yards per pound and approximately 240 yards on a mini cone. And Fine Lyte Hemp™ is a thinner 2-ply yarn with approximately 5,000 yards per pound and approximately 470 yards per mini cone. Would you like to purchase individual cones of the Lyte Hemp™ Yarn? Click here for Bold Lyte Hemp™ Yarns or here for Fine Lyte Hemp™ Yarns.
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Hemp Bag Bliss Yarn Collection
This classic bag is a beautiful 8-shaft project!
We have assembled the yarns to make Krista Richey’s Hemp Bag Bliss as shown in the January/February 2021 edition of Handwoven Magazine from Long Thread Media. You will find the instructions on page 50. If you do not have a current subscription, you can purchase a copy of the magazine here: Handwoven Magazine
You can see all the colors of hemp here if you wish to choose additional colors.
Turning Autumn Towels Yarn Collection
These delightful towels are such a fun 4-shaft project!
We have assembled the yarns to make Cynthia Newman’s Turning Autumn Towels as shown in the September/October 2020 edition of Handwoven Magazine from Long Thread Media. You will find the instructions on page 61. If you do not have a current subscription, you can purchase one here: Handwoven Magazine.
Poetic Placemats Instructions
If you follow these instructions, you will end up with 4 beautiful placemats that all have a different look. You will learn to do 4 types of finger manipulated edging techniques to create 4 beautiful placemats. Mix and match or choose your favorites. Think of them as samplers you can use.
Hemp Poetic Placemats
Guess who’s coming to dinner? 4 easy and elegant hemp placemats for your next entertainment event. extend your education using classic hand-manipulated lace edge embellishments. The poet e.e. cummings would have wanted to get a loom just to weave these elegant placemats! Listen to the Loon! Difficulty level is Intermediate to Advanced (Two fish). This is a Two harness kit. Instructions for both Rigid Heddle and Shaft looms.