Handwoven Wool + Alpaca Blanket 'Misty Mountain #1'

Soft, warm, and eco-friendly -- an upgrade on the traditional wool blanket!

Handwoven by the sea in Tasmania from a blend of 65% wool* and 35% superfine alpaca.

Generously sized at approx 120cm W x 175cm L, with a tidy hand-twisted fringe at each end.

This is a truly unique handmade textile, handwoven on my vintage wooden weaving loom using techniques that have remained much the same throughout human history for thousands of years. Scroll down to 'Inspiration' to read more about the story behind this piece.

Designed with care to become a future heirloom. Utterly unique and never to be repeated. Soft on the environment (no microplastics here!), and soft on your skin (Oeko-Tex certified yarn**).

Please note that colours vary from screen to screen, and while I have done my best to portray them as accurately as possible, I cannot guarantee accuracy on your screen. The photos taken indoors portray the blanket's colours most accurately. Feel free to contact me if you'd like additional details or photographs.

* Ethically grown wool from non-mulesed sheep

** The yarn used to weave this blanket has an Oeko-Tex® certification (certificate number 23.HPE.36896), Standard 100, Class II from the Hohenstein Institute. This means that is has been tested for harmful substances and is considered safe in human-ecological terms. Class II means the yarn is suitable to come in direct contact with the skin to a large extent, such as blouses, shirts, mattresses, etc.

INSPIRATION

When was the last time you stood on a mountaintop, and just breathed in the endless landscape and seascape before you?

Wind filling your lungs and tangling your hair, and rushing through you with the kind of exhilaration only wild, untamed nature can bring?

That's the feeling, the moment, that inspired these handwoven wool/superfine alpaca blankets.

An icy Tasmanian afternoon, at the top of kunanyi/My Wellington. Snow slick and hard underfoot, clouds misting the deep greens and blues and greys of the mountain and her flora. Tiny waterfalls iridescent on the lower rocks. And beyond, hazy blue ocean and sky, the horizon blending into one infinite blue.

I travelled back to that exact moment many times while weaving this blanket. The wind, the sky, the forest-green leaves have all been woven into the fabric. The ocean is there too, deep and distant, the rhythms of the waves and tides echoed in the rhythms of the loom.

My hope is that this blanket will bring a little of that moment, that story, to its new home one day.