Heavenly Wools - Heavenly Wools

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Welcome to Heavenly Wools

New Zealand hand-dyed wool for spinners and felters

Create your own 'heavenly' wool items from my exciting colour range!
Heavenly Wools brings you unique hand-dyed colours of merino wool from the heart of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Working from my home, a tiny church in North Canterbury, I have developed a range of unique, exciting colour blends. I’m always testing new ideas, so keep an eye out for future developments! Visit the online shopping area to find out more about buying wool from Heavenly Wools.
Important Updates! Make sure you check the What's New column to the right to find out what's been happening on the site and even in the real world!

This pretty lace shawlette is knitted from a downloadable pattern by Mindy Wilkes. 2,529+ knitters have made it so far!
Fibre: 23 micron combed merinoColourway: Sea Anemone.

Bromeliad colourway in Corriedale

Wool for Spinners

The soft gradations between colours make Heavenly Wools fibres perfect for one-of-a- kind handmade projects. Choose from:
JUST IN STOCK! Beautiful fine, lustrous Haunui Handcraft Wools NZ Halfbred in four base shades, overdyed with any of my colourways.
22 micron combed merino tops. A superior tops preparation. Spin or felt; very easy to spin.
19-21 micron South Island merino sliver, carded and gilled (not superwash treated). Wonderfully fine and soft fibre, but contains some noil, short fibres and vegetable matter - spins up slightly textured.
See my hints and tips pages for spinning technique ideas - thick and thin felted yarn, and a navajo plying video!

Wool for Felters

My Merino slivers are suitable for wet felting and needle felting - non-superwash, carded and gilled. Choose from 19-21 micron merino, carded and double-gilled or 22 micron combed tops - great for soft, drapeable scarves, mitts, fine jackets and even baby clothes! See my project pages for or felt gallery for ideas. Check out the hints and tips section for basic feltmaking info.

Heavenly Wools slivers are great for needle felting. Check out my single colours for a range of semi-solid options, or buy a mix and pick out or mingle shades!

Heavenly Wools fibres are small-batch dyed, so no two batches are identical, although shades are always very close between batches. Wool is available in 100gr multiples.
Visit the Colourways page to see the variety of colours available, and to
download my brochure of current colours. Don't see what you want? Contact me to discuss a custom colourway. Subscribe to my newsletter to be kept up to date.
Come back to Heavenly Wools often to catch up on new colours, my blog, or
useful hints and tips!

Pleased to find my 'Rus't colourway featured in this leafy treasury.There are literally hundreds of new treasuries posted every day, each expressing one person's take on a theme.

Are you an Etsian?
If you have no idea what I'm talking about - you're not! Why not visit Etsy to find out what all the fuss is about?
Etsy is like an enormous international art and craft department store - all set up to cater for people who love handcrafts - buyers and creators!
It's a great way of finding new art and craft ideas, gadgets and even patterns.

Now discounted - every week!

Pohutukawa over Dark Grey - 24.5 Halfbred wool tops!

Shade of the Week

A shimmery blend of natural wool tones and Pohutukawa - Shade of the Week price $11.50/100gr.

11.50

A gift to you

From today, Shade of the Week will be discounted - every week! Check for a new shade every Friday or Saturday! Limit 5 per customer.

So What's New?

Now available! Overdyed natural colours!
Luxurious overdyed natural coloured carded and combed halfbred wool in several colourways and shades.
New Colour charts out now
I've just published a new and up-to-date all shades colour chart, as well as updating the colourways page and the shop.
Check out the new Haunui Handcraft Halfbred Wools section in the online shop.
New Products:
24.5 Haunui Handcraft Wools tops - NZ Halfbred wool from a specialist craft flock, dyed just for you in your shade of choice.
22 micron carded and combed tops - available now in the online shop. A beautiful preparation of natural white merino, with very little short fibre and minimal vegetable material.
I've also just begun stocking very cost-effective needlefelter's core wool in my Etsy shop - I will be adding a whole new needlefelter's wool page here on the site soon, as I add new product to the store.
Remaining 23 Micron combed Merino and Corriedale as well as carded and gilled Felting Merino by request. All my remaining stock is now listed on my Etsy store. Contact me with any queries, or buy in the Etsy shop, HeavenlyWools.
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Custom Colours

Sometimes the listed colours just don't fit the bill.
I needed a dark tone to set off the beehive coils of this Bromeliad colourway spun in Corriedale. I amped up the saturation of Earth and dyed the very dark chocolate brown seen in the finer ply.

If you have a special colour in mind and you don't see it here, ask me about a custom colour. This is a free service, so don't be shy!

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