Pakucho Original Fingering

$8.00 – $12.00

Enjoy an eco-friendly, and lusciously soft knitting experience with our fair trade organic cotton, also known as Pakucho, from the ancient Incan word for ‘brown cotton’. These cottons are naturally pigmented, which means they actually grow in these colours, so there’s no dye at all. This type of cotton is very different from what is commonly used, botanically its called Gossypium barbadense, or South American cotton. These are ancient heritage varieties, that at one time were very rare, due to industrialization, and the desire for the quick and easy white cotton. By purchasing these and the other organic cotton yarns here, you are directly supporting biodiversity and the amazing heritage of colourgrown cottons.

Each fingering weight skein weighs 50g (3.5 oz) and 200m (219yds).

This yarn is EKO Certified Organic by USDA, GOTS, Control Union, SKAL & Certified Fair Trade by Control Union Fair Choice, made for Vegan Yarn by Peru Naturtex.

To see what other people have made with Pakucho Original Fingering visit:

https://www.ravelry.com/yarns/library/vegan-yarn-pakucho-original-fingering/projects

“Grown on small farmyard plots by rural artisan and [indigenous] families, native cotton cultivation supports self-help development programs for the benefit of peasant communities and urban women’s migrant co-operatives. In the High Jungle of Peru, native cotton has already replaced several thousand hectares of clandestinely cultivated coca leaf from which the fatally addicting cocaine paste is synthesized. Today, hundreds of [indigenous] peasant farmers benefit from the revival of native and organically grown cotton.” -Peru Naturtex/Pakucho