Alpaca Scarves are hand made from our own alpacas fleece.  The natural colours from the alpacas are used in the main, however in the making of our knitwear, we do dye some of our yarn using natural plants and include these in our clothing accessories.

The natural plant dyes used are:

• Woad                    - blue
• Weld                     - yellow
• Woad over weld  - green
• Madder                 -  pink, salmon, reddish shades

Woad and Madder were grown extensively in Norfolk many years ago.  The Maddermarket in Norwich gets its name from the actual market which sold madder plants and roots.

In Anglo Saxon times woad, weld, and madder were used in the dying of garments worn by the Angles.  Queen Boudica made her warriors paint their faces with woad which she believed was an antiseptic whilst weld was regarded as a weed.