Dye-to-Order: Durin’s Bane – Middle Earth Imagined Collection

When you dig too deep, you never know what trouble you might awaken. Thus was the Third Age fate of Durin VI and his company of dwarves in Moria as they mined for mithril, leaving the caves as the dominion of the Balrog until Gandalf took him on as he assisted the fellowship early in their quest to destroy the One Ring.

Durin’s Bane features five colors representing the darkness and fire of this evil demon: Darkness Black, Smoke Purple, Molten Red, Firey Orange, and Blaze Gold.

Durin’s Bane is available as a self-striping colorway, a mini skein set, and as two different fiber configurations. Read on for details of each, and then choose from the drop down menu above to pick which item(s) you’d like to order.

SELF-STRIPING

Durin’s Bane is a five stripe colorway featuring Darkness Black, Smoke Purple, Molten Red, Firey Orange, and Blaze Gold.

Durin’s Bane is shown on Bounce and Mountain Tweed BFL; the sample is knit in Bounce. It is available to order on the following bases:

Bounce – fingering, 80/20 SW Merino/Nylon, 400 yards per 100-gram skein
Bedazzled – fingering, 75/20/5 SW Merino/Nylon/Silver Stellina, 438 yards per 100-gram skein
*Mountain Tweed BFL – fingering, 85/15 SW BFL/Donegal Nepp, 438 yards per 100-gram skein
Traveler – sport, 80/20 SW Merino/Nylon, 328 yards per 100-gram skein
Strong DK – DK, 75/25 SW Merino/Nylon, 245 yards per 100-gram skein

MINI SKEIN SET

Durin’s Bane mini skein set includes five 20-gram minis, one in each of the five colors featured in the self-striping colorway The mini set shown is on our Bounce and Mountain Tweed Merino Fingering bases.

Durin’s Bane mini sets are available to order on the following bases:

Bounce – fingering, 80/20 SW Merino/Nylon, 400 yards per 100-gram skein
Bedazzled – fingering, 75/20/5 SW Merino/Nylon/Silver Stellina, 438 yards per 100-gram skein
Mountain Tweed Merino – fingering, 85/15 SW Merino/Donegal Nepp, 438 yards per 100-gram skein
Strong DK – DK, 75/25 SW Merino/Nylon, 245 yards per 100-gram skein

FIBER

Durin’s Bane is available in two different fiber configurations: a 4 oz. variegated braid (shown on Mixed BFL/Silk) and a Spinning Set (shown on Falkland, which is not available at this time; we’ve replaced it in the options with Polwarth).

The Spinning Set includes five one-ounce mini bumps of fiber, one each of the five Durin’s Bane colors.

Braids and Spinning Sets are both available on the following fibers:

Mixed BFL/Silk (85% Mixed BFL/15% Tussah Silk)
Polwarth Top

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

Recommended care for fiber: Hand wash only in cool water; air dry flat. These fibers will felt. Note that a minor amount of residual dye may be released from the fiber in the first couple of soaks. This is normal and should not affect the color of the overall spun yarn.

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.