Quality: 40-033
Content: 100% Peduncle Tassar Silk
Units: kit, containing 6 bundles of fibre
Country of origin: India
Price: kit contains 120g of fibre $60.50
This is one of the most unusual spinning fibres we've ever encountered. It looks like pewter in fibre form. It has a stunning luster, and the brownish-grey colour is breathtaking. Peduncle tassar is fibre from the peduncle part (foot) of the cocoon, which is the little stalk the silkworm makes to attach itself to a tree branch (see Tassar Cocoons to see this appendage). Like all tussah spinning fibre, this one has "tooth" that makes it easy to spin. It's a rare and spectacular spinning fibre.
We've dyed this distinctive fibre and put it into a kit so you can get a taste for how colour is enriched by the Peduncle's base colour. The 5 colours in the kit are Walnut, Deep Ocean, Magenta, Golden Sun and Purple. Each Peduncle Tassar Dyed Sample Kit contains 120g of Peduncle fibre: 20g of each of the five dyed colours, plus 20g of undyed Peduncle fibre. The additional image shows the handspun yarn made from these colours.
