A handwoven Falkland merino and silk snood in mint green and pink - three variants, hand-dyed, 8-shaft floor loom, made by Emma Baker in Salisbury
 
This snood is woven by Emma Baker on an 8-shaft floor loom in Salisbury, Wiltshire from a hand-dyed yarn of 75% Falkland merino wool and 25% silk. The Falkland merino comes from the Falkland Islands, where the cold climate and natural grazing produce a wool with particular fineness and a natural lustre. The 25% silk adds a natural sheen, a slightly cooler handle, and a fluid drape that pure merino cannot achieve alone. Three variants are available, each using the same yarn but with different constructions, dimensions and colour accents.
 
Three variants - choose the one that suits you
Variant B - Mint & Pink Wide (34cm × 74cm)  The widest and longest of the four.  Standard loop. The most generous drape of the variants.
Variant C - Mint, Pink & Lilac Infinity Twist (17cm × 74cm)  A significantly narrower snood sewn with an infinity twist - the fabric is given a single twist before the ends are joined, creating a figure-of-eight loop that sits with a natural turn at the neck. At 17cm wide this variant is closer in character to a slim fitted cowl than a wider loose snood. It has lilac stripes woven into the mint and pink ground, giving it the most distinctive visual character of the four.
Variant D - Mint, Pink & Lilac Warp (33cm × 70cm)  Similar in construction to Variant B but with subtle lilac shades threaded into the warp in the centre of the weave. 
 
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The yarn - Falkland merino and silk, hand-dyed
The 75% Falkland merino and 25% silk blend is hand-dyed in the mint green and pink colourway before weaving, so the colour is in the fibre itself rather than applied to the surface. Hand-dyeing produces a depth of tone and subtle variation that commercially dyed yarn cannot replicate. The silk content gives the snood a natural sheen that catches the light as the snood moves, and a drape quality that makes it sit more fluidly around the neck than a pure wool snood.
 
What makes this snood special
Handwoven by Emma Baker in Salisbury, Wiltshire on an 8-shaft floor loom
75% Falkland merino wool, 25% silk - a premium fibre blend found on only one other listing in this collection
Hand-dyed yarn - colour with depth and tonal variation
Four variants: two plain mint and pink; two with lilac accents; one with an infinity twist construction
8-shaft straight threading - precise control over the weave structure
One of a kind - each snood is individually woven and hand-finished
Presented in Emma Baker’s gold-embossed gift box
 
A beautiful gift 
The Falkland merino and silk blend, hand-dyeing, and the choice of three genuinely different variants make this one of the most materially distinguished snoods in Emma’s collection. A birthday, Mother’s Day, or any occasion where a genuinely special fibre-quality gift is wanted. Arrives in Emma Baker’s gold-embossed gift box.