Umutuku Hand Spun Hope Ethiopian Cotton

100% Ethiopian Cotton
368 yds–100 g
fingering weight

This lovely cotton yarn is laboriously handspun on a drop spindle in Ethiopia by women working for a small cooperative comprised of single mothers.  A single skein of yarn requires approximately 736 yards of handspun yarn.

The yarn is then imported into Rwanda where the ladies of Handspun Hope complete the process of dyeing it organically, using imported cochineal extract, in the single-ply. Once the yarn is dry, the spinners then ply the yarn with spinning wheels into a two-ply yarn.

Due to the characteristics of this naturally hand-dyed yarn, actual color may vary between skeins. We recommend alternating skeins during knitting for allover color and texture distribution.

Handspun Hope yarns come to us from a women’s co-operative in northern Rwanda.