Fury Wren Newsletter #1!
Hi everyone! Welcome to the Fury Wren Newsletter, where I (Ghost) will tell you about the stuff I’ve been spinning up. This space will be more verbose and colorful than my business instagram or website, so… please look forward to it!
New Tzitzit Strings
New tzitzit string sets in stock! there’s SO MANY. Some classics, some new.
The sweet buttery yellow on either side, and the deep cerulean blue (with white) in the middle, are new colors! A friend brought me some roving from a trip to Maine, from Happy Snowman Farm in Farmington, ME.
For the white-main-and-color-shamash sets, I’m trying out using white Targhee wool instead of Merino for the main strings! My usual all-white strings are spun from superfine (18.5 micron) Merino wool combed top, which has a deluxe silky feel, but most of my dyed colors are not- They’re slightly-thicker 21 micron Merino, or carded instead of combed, or crinkly Falkland wool, or a blend of different fibers. The Targhee, soft and light but not overly silky, is a better textural match with all sorts of shamashim.
They’re all up on my website here. If you want one, let me know!
On The Wheel
Linen! We got LINEN!!!
I’m finally getting my linen spinning skills up to a decent level! Linen likes to be spun a bit damp, but having perpetually damp skin makes my eczema flare up so bad. I think I’m getting towards the right balance between spinning a smooth yarn and not exploding my hands.
I also have another single-origin wool I’m working on- BFL wool from Walnut Farm in Carlisle, PA. Most of their sheep have white wool, but two of them have black wool, and the resulting color blend is a warm light heathered gray- sort of sandy? It’s pretty.
Felties
Got a couple of glamim in the works! A little void thing and a parrot-y pal. Slowly slowly working on them.
There’s also this bee! I recently taught a friend how to needle felt- they made the garlic while I made the bee.
Collabs
Noam (Kol Atzmotai) just made a lovely lovely trans pride tallis, with trans tzitzit from me! More on their instagram here.
Elly (Elly Bovarnick Studios) made this dreamy starry night tallis, with custom sparkly tzitzit from me! More on her instagram here.
Other Stuff
My foster kitties may be new to the job, but they’re quickly becoming excellent string helpers! Thanks, Titan & Lilly.
