Marion Grau@marion_grau@climatejustice.social
@sinituulia@eldritch.cafe what is your take on 100% hand-knitted wool garments and socks? Socks is difficult because most sock wool comes with polyester because otherwise they aren't durable. Still looking for better options. Tencel for example...
Sini Tuulia@sinituulia@eldritch.cafe
@marion_grau@climatejustice.social It's been a while since I knit or did crochet, but there's at least a couple of kinds of 100% wool that has been felted and treated in such a way that the fibres become harder, denser and more durable. "Superwash" or something, because they can also be machine washed after without shrinking. Will wear down eventually, of course, but. 🤔
I've handled some sheep wool yarn with linen, hemp, ramie, alpaca, nettle and/or silk mixed in, which apparently makes the yarn more abrasion resistant, but never worked with them! I know my mother has a wool & nettle jumper that is close to 20 years old and is in perfect condition and feels only slightly rougher and squished together than "normal" wool.
Worth mentioning is that you rarely wash woollen things, so they shed a lot less microplastics into the ecosystem even if there is polyester or acrylic in them!