12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS: LOOP

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The brand name Enneste is a portmanteau of the Hungarian en es te, meaning me and you, and the Japanese for circle, en. That’s because Hungary is where Naho Izumi lived. Naho has extensive experience of dying cotton threads, as part of the creative team of Temaricious.  So, Enneste products are dyed with Enneste colour; natural or regular dye in harmony with nature and soft, natural colours. 

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LOOP is offering a SELVEDGE winner a special box of Enneste threads, hand-dyed by Enneste Tokyo, with colour and materials selected by Hiromi Fujimoto. Before establishing her label, HiROMi FUJiMOTO, in 2015, Hiromi worked as a pattern maker for top fashion designers in Paris. Her time at Givenchy, and the artists she encountered, inspired her beautiful and unique embroidery designs, using French and Luneville techniques acquired at École Lesage Paris.

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The box contains 19 different naturally dyed threads, in silk, mohair, cotton, bamboo, linen, and merino wool. Several months were spent getting the colour just right on each of these materials. The resulting soft and delicate colours are beautiful.

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Fittingly, they are presented in a box illustrated by Anna Hashimoto, based on her original, coloured pencil drawings, inspired by Hiromi's embroidery work.  

The box is worth £64, and contains the following:

1. 140m (100%) cotton dyed with Logwood
2. 140m (100%) cotton dyed with Avocado
3. 140m (100%) cotton dyed with Japanese Pagoda Tree
4. 15m (100%) silk dyed with Indigo and Garcinia subelliptica
5. 15m (100%) silk dyed with Madder
6. 11m (55%/45%) silk and cashmere dyed with Avocado and Madder
7. 11m (55% /45%) silk and cashmere dyed with Garcinia subelliptica
8. 11m Silky Merino (50% silk /50% extrafine merino) dyed with Cochineal
9. 11m Silky Merino (50% Silk / 50% extrafine merino) dyed with Garcinia subelliptica
10. 5m mohair (70% mohair / 30% wool) dyed with Madder
11. 5m mohair (70% mohair / 30% wool) dyed with Madder
12. 6m (100% superwash extrafine) merino wool dyed with Indigo
13. 6m (100% superwash extrafine) merino wool dyed with Indigo and Garcinia subelliptica
14. 6m bamboo (65% superwash extrafine merino / 20% bamboo / 15% silk) dyed with Garcinia subelliptica

15. 6m bamboo (65% superwash extrafine merino / 20% bamboo / 15% silk) dyed with Cochineal

16. 11m (100%) linen dyed with Crepe Myrtle
17. 11m (100%) linen dyed with Madder and Cochineal
18. 7m (100% superwash extrafine) merino wool dyed with Indigo and Garcinia subelliptica
19. 7m (100% superwash extrafine) merino wool dyed with Madder

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