In-Stock: Peacock Butterfly Self-Striping

Peacock Butterfly originally debuted in the second round of our Lepidoptera Club in 2024. It’s now coming to the shop as part of our Pollinators Collection.

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Peacock Butterflies are found in Europe and temperate Asia and are often seen over much of its habitat. With a wingspan of approximately 2”/50 mm, it’s not a particularly large butterfly, but what it lacks in size it more than makes up for in color! Amid its striking reddish-orange and brown wings is the Peacock Butterfly’s most notable feature — four large blue/purple and yellow eyespots present on its top side. In addition to these eyespots, the undersides of its wings are quite dark – black and brown which can look deep purple in some light. This coloring allows the butterflies to camouflage themselves against tree bark and other similarly colored plants. If the coloration doesn’t work to ward off danger, they can also emit a hissing sound telling would be predators to stay away! (See second picture for examples of their coloring.)

Peacock Butterfly features six stripes in varying sizes mirroring the dynamic colors of this winged beauty. The sample was knit in our Traveler sport weight base; the full skein shown is on Bounce.

Peacock Butterfly self-striping is available in stock on the following bases:

Mountain Tweed BFL – fingering, 85/15 SW BFL/Donegal Nepp, 438 yards per 100-gram skein, plus 87 yd/20-gm mini

Recommended care: Though these are superwash wools and can be machine washed, we recommend hand washing in cool water and then air dry flat.

All of our yarns and fibers are individually hand-dyed using professional grade acid dyes. Colorway names are consistent between yarns/fibers dyed with the same dye colors, however color can (and likely will) vary between skeins and between different bases.

We make every effort to assure the colors in our photos are as accurate as possible, but please note that colors can vary from monitor to monitor.