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  • Urban Quarter by Urban Purl

    Colour
    Urbanite
    Bleeding Heart Yard
    Waterloo Sunset
    Pagoda
    Copperplate
    Boudiccas Revenge
    Cosmic Dawn
    Urban Sprawl
    Saqqara
    Urban Haze
    Mantra Mill
    Urban Chaos
    Concrete
    Urban Legend
    Urban Turbine
    Maelstrom
    Smokescreen
    Calypso
    Auldwynter
    20,000 Leagues
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    • We are so excited to stock this incredible new yarn base dyed up by the amazing Urban Purl, right here in London.

      100% Superwash Merino yarn, this versatile fingering weight is lovely and smooth, takes colour super well, and has lovely drape - making it perfect for shawls and easy to wear, next-to-skin-soft garments. The high twist on this yarn makes texture pop too!

      Leila creates her magic from her studio in NW London. A culturally rich and diverse upbringing has greatly influenced Leila’s creativity, leading to a fascination with urban/cityscapes.

      She is known for her intricate semi-tonals, lightly peppered with speckles, that has become the brand signature.

    • Ingredients:
      100% Superwash Merino

      Length:
      400m (437yd)

      Weight:
      100g

      Gauge:
      Fingering/4Ply

    • About The Urban Purl

      Leila Bux, the founder of The Urban Purl, is a one woman show, creating colours galore on yarn and fibre from her studio in North West London.

      A long-time crafter, knitter and crocheter, Leila began dyeing yarn as an ongoing extension of exploring creativity in colour.

      A culturally rich and diverse upbringing in West London has greatly influenced Leila’s creativity, leading to a fascination with urban/cityscapes, the graphic imagery of urban dereliction and the colours generated by the natural processes of deconstruction (she’s not emo or morbid, promise!) that imbues many of her colourways with an urban, gritty quality. She is also known for her intricate semi-tonals, lightly peppered with speckles, that has become the brand signature.

      A maximalist at heart, Leila creates darkly blended moody colours, as well as rich and vibrant hues with or without speckles. Yarn texture, dimension and handle are key factors when choosing the right yarns for her colours and Leila