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Undyed yarn the colour of the fleece it came from, in grades of natural grey
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Undyed

A colour that only exists before dye. A handful of designers are learning to leave it there, and to charge for the restraint.

An evergreen reference · Fibre, grade, natural grey
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The stance

What undyed means here

Not off-white and not bleached back to neutral: undyed is the fibre graded by the animal it came from, spun without brightener, read as a line rather than a flaw. The most radical thing you can do to wool is nothing at all. Below, the stories that make the case.

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5 stories
Two makers at a four-hand loom, mid-row, working a single piece between them The four-hand atelier, one stitch at a timeUndyed · Long read A hand-turned cuff in undyed corriedale wool, construction left visible The turned cuff, and why it keeps returningUndyed · Technique
The luxury is the labour, and the restraint is the point. The undyed stance
An older hand-linker closing a knit seam by eye at the bench Counting rows by eye: the last hand-linkersUndyed · The makers Undyed cloth swatches in grades of natural grey, no dye lot Undyed, unbleached: the case for the natural greyUndyed · Materials Skeins dipped in natural dye drying on a line, muted earth tones A field guide to natural dyeUndyed · Reference

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