{"id":1093,"date":"2009-12-21T12:30:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T12:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2009-12-17T17:08:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T17:08:54","slug":"more-fibre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/21\/more-fibre\/","title":{"rendered":"More fibre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago I ordered more stuffing from <a title=\"World of Wool\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldofwool.co.uk\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">World of Wool<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>The first is 100g of dark brown baby alpaca.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/WoWBrownBabyAlpaca.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1094\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/21\/more-fibre\/wowbrownbabyalpaca\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/WoWBrownBabyAlpaca.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa 3.0&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-TZ3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1257333328&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"WoWBrownBabyAlpaca\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/WoWBrownBabyAlpaca.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1094 aligncenter\" title=\"WoWBrownBabyAlpaca\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/WoWBrownBabyAlpaca-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"WoWBrownBabyAlpaca\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/WoWBrownBabyAlpaca-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/WoWBrownBabyAlpaca.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second is 100g of black diamond carbonised bamboo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/WoWBlackDiamond.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1095\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/21\/more-fibre\/wowblackdiamond\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/WoWBlackDiamond.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa 3.0&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-TZ3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1257333334&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"WoWBlackDiamond\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/WoWBlackDiamond.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1095 aligncenter\" title=\"WoWBlackDiamond\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/WoWBlackDiamond-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"WoWBlackDiamond\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/WoWBlackDiamond-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/WoWBlackDiamond.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>I am looking forward to spinning both of these. They both feel very soft and silky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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