Kroopa Wool is a collaboration between Gabo Wool and Polish hand-knit designer Karolina Adamczyk (@kroopa.knits), which is spun from sheep grown in Uruguay and Argentina, making it soft and durable.
- Wire composition: 100% South American wool (24 mic.)
- Weight / Cable length per ball: 50g/100m
- Wire thickness: Worsted/ Aran
- Recommended needle size (rod needle) : 3.5-4.5 mm (single strand)
- Fabric density: 10x10cm, 22 needles x 28 segments
- CLEANING METHOD: WATER TEMPERATURE BELOW 25 DEGREES C, HAND WASH AND THEN LAY FLAT TO DRY (DO NOT MACHINE WASH)
【Brand Story】
Gabo Wool, an emerging wire brand from Poland, aims to produce high-quality, all-natural fiber filaments that children can safely use, promote weaving and promote "Slow Fashon" living. All of its filaments comply with Fair Trade and OEKO-TEX standards, use high-quality dyes from European manufacturers with low environmental impact, and are free of heavy metals and AZO-free (azo-free) chemicals.
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The owner, Krystian, has lived in Norway for many years and has worked as a product manager in Scandinavia for 7 years.
Passionate about natural fibres and the traditional craft of weaving, he decided to return to his hometown of Poland after working in Norway for many years and founded Gabo Wool under his son's name.
With rich experience in the wire industry, Gabo Wool adheres to the concept of sustainability, safety and non-toxicity, fair trade, high quality and promotion of weaving skills, has developed a variety of traditional or combined with the latest textile technology of the wire, all products, using completely non-toxic, non-heavy metal dyes, more importantly, Gabo Wool respects the efforts of weavers, cooperates with designers to promote weaving, and hopes to start from the hometown, step by step to promote the "Slow" that is different from the fast fashion of large-scale garment textiles Fashon Slow Lifestyle.
The spirit of Gabo Wool coincides with the core values of Lucid Islet Knit, and from the owner's articles and many communications, we can feel Krystian's enthusiasm and vitality for this wire production industry, which accounts for only 2% of the global textile industry, as well as his enthusiasm and ambition to promote all-natural fibers.
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