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[stellie]

Is nettle yarn unpleasant to work with? I find that every vegan that asks certain communities here on LiveJournal what kind of natural yarns are out there that are not made from animals... they're never met with the option of nettle.

And whenever I offer this option, my comment is skipped right over as though I've not said anything.

Nettle is like saying dorset, isn't it?

Screw the conventions. Merino isn't everything. Soy can kiss my ass.

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[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

Are there a lot of commercially available nettle yarns, though? My LYS, which has a good selection of cottons and wools doesn't carry any linen, much less nettle. Quick googling shows, though, that ramie is a kind of nettle, too, so maybe that may be a better word to use? The word nettle has unpleasant connotations in English, after all.

[stellie.livejournal.com]

Though I've only seen a few, there are places you can get a nettle yarn online -- I think it's mostly handspun and comes from regions such as India -- priced some this morning at just under US$10 per 100 yards. Which is decent, in my mind, for what it is and how it's obtained.

And you're right, nettle is a rather harsh word - how it is pronounced as well as it's history. I've always associated 'ramie' with a man-made product, I don't know why.