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The rose wool, and why it took two years to find

Marguerite Fennimore · 28 August 2026

We wanted a rose that was not sweet, which turns out to be a very difficult thing to ask a mill for.

Most pink wool is dyed in the piece, and piece dye makes a flat colour. What we were after was a rose built in the yarn from three different fibres, so that at two metres it reads as one colour and at arm's length it does not.

Fabric swatches fanned from blush to deep rose
Fourteen trials. The eleventh is the one, second from the right.

The finished cloth is 480 grams, double-faced, and needs no lining — which is the reason the coat has none and why it hangs the way it does.

When the 180 metres are gone the coat will stop. We are not planning to reorder, because the eleventh trial was a specific batch of a specific fibre and it would not be the same cloth.