Andando en las redes y buscando cosillas me topé con una asociación vasca Mutur Beltz que ya había oído hablar de ellos antes por otro tema, el caso es que entrando en su página web veo que tienen lanas para la venta, y 100% vasca, así que de parte de mi amiga Piedad (mi mundo amigurumi),compré otro regalito del día de la madre.
Hace algunos días me llegó mi lana vasca, vasca, pero no es eso lo
importante, lo realmente importante es que es de unas ovejitas que están en vía
de extinción, pero que gracias a la gran labor de Mutur Beltz, están evitando
que desaparezcan esas ovejitas, se llaman ovejas de cara negra. Muy lindas las
ovejitas, y producen una lana un tanto especial, parece tosca, pero en realidad
es suave, se teje bastante bien y lo mejor de todo; para alguien que no es
experta tejedora, es que se deshace fácil sin crear enredajos imposibles de
desenredar.
Nunca había tenido ni tejido lana 100% y me trajo muchos recuerdos de niña,
el olor que tiene se parece a una cera que mi papá usaba para limpiar sus botas
de cuero o piel que dirían x estas tierras, que se llama grasa de potro, pero
que no es exactamente como huele, sólo me trajo ese recuerdo.
De momento no he tejido mucho, pero si destejido, así que doy fé que aguanta
bastante. Tengo muchos planes para esta lana tan especial, de momento tengo
unas muestritas de tejido con dos tamaños de agujas y tengo medio empezada una
prenda muy vasca para una lana muy vasca. Un mendigoizale, no será en los
colores típicos, pero será el más vasco de todos. A ver cuando lo termino.
While searching through
websites and looking for little things, I found a Basque association called
Mutur Beltz. I had heard of them before for something else, but in this case, I
went on to their website and I saw that they have wool for sale which is 100% Basque,
so from my friend Piedad (mi mundo amigurumi),she got me this as another Mother’s Day present.
A few days ago, I received my
very Basque wool, but ithat wasn’t so important, but what was really important was
that it came from a wee sheep in danger of extinction. However, thanks to the amazing
work of Mutur Beltz, they are saving these sheep from disappearing, sheep which
are called Black-faced Sheep. They are very nice sheep and they produce quite a
special wool. It looks a bit rough, but it is in fact really soft, and is easy
to knit. The best of all is that for somebody who is not a knitting expert, is
it is very easy to unstitch without becoming an impossible tangle.
I had never had nor knitted
with 100% wool and it brought me back a lot of memories from when I was a child,
as it smells similar to a wax that my dad used to use for cleaning his leather
boots which was called fat horse grease, but it isn`t exactly the smell, only
that it brought that memory back to me.
For the moment, I have not
knitted much, but I do unwoven, so I attest that it holds up a lot. I have a
lot of plans for this special wool. At the moment I have some knitted samples
with two different needle sizes, and I have started a very Basque piece of
clothing from a very Basque wool which is a Mendigoizale, and it is not in the
traditional colours, but it will be the most Basque of all. We will see when I have
finished it.
With the unspun wool, I made
balls for the tumble dryer, and even though it is not so common here to have tumble
dryers at home, there are public laundries where you can take your clothes to
dry or clean and dry there, so I’m going to use them one of these days. I have to
get around to dyeing the wool through a natural dye process, and I have tried
very hard to do a lot of things myself but in the end I haven’t done anything.
muestra tejida sin bloquear |
cuaderno de anotaciones |
muestras tejidas bloqueadas |
mi mendigoizale empezado |
bolas en proceso |