22nd April 2025
The shop is now on holiday until 19th May 2025. All current orders are being made up and dispatched as normal. If you have any queries, please contact me at
carol@fellviewfibres.co.uk
This is the third colourway based on the 'Underwater Aliens' Theme
The rolags are based on a hydrothermal vent with its associated ‘chemosynthetic based ecosystem’. Black smokers or hydrothermal vents were first discovered in the deep sea in the 1970’s. Here, at the sea bed, thousands of meters down, there is no light. This means that in most places, there is very little life (as 99% of life depends on energy from the sun – via photosynthesis – or eating photosynthetic life forms). At the hydrothermal vent’s scientists discovered teaming life, in temperatures many times that of boiling water. How?!
It transpired that single celled organisms such as algae and bacteria were chemosynthetic – this means that they were producing the energy they required for life from the chemicals (iron based and sulphur based) dissolved in the escaping water. It is now thought that this type of environment may have been the first steps in life on Earth.
These Chemosynthetic rolags are made of 21 micron merino and superfine (18.5 micron) merino in shades of grey and green.
The inspiration photograph was taken by NOAA
