A couple of weeks ago I ordered more stuffing from World of Wool for the never ending elephants and thought as I was paying the postage anyway, I might as well get a couple of little bags of interesting looking fibre to try spinning.

The first is 100g of dark brown baby alpaca.

The second is 100g of black diamond carbonised bamboo.

I’m not entirely sure what the process is that creates carbonised bamboo. To me carbonised sounds like it means it has been burnt, but I could be barking up entirely the wrong tree.

I am looking forward to spinning both of these. They both feel very soft and silky.