Skin Tone Peach Merino Wool for Needle Felting – Extra Fine 19 Micron | DHG Acacia | Last Chance

A soft, warm peach — the skin tone shade, and the one that won't leave needle holes.

At about 19 microns, this is one of the finest wools we stock. That's the whole point of it: the fibres are so fine they close over behind the needle, so you get a smooth, even surface instead of the pitted, pock-marked finish you get topping off with a coarser wool. For faces, this is the difference between a doll that looks finished and one that looks stabbed.

Acacia is a pale, warm peach with no pink harshness — our go-to for anything that needs to read as skin: faces, hands, ears, little bare feet, inner ears on animals, and the blush on a peach or a mushroom cap.

Important — use a fine needle

Fine wool needs a fine needle. Work the surface with a 40 gauge triangular or a 42 gauge twisted needle. A 36 or 38 will push through and leave visible holes, no matter how good the wool is. Build your shape in a coarser core wool first, then apply a thin layer of Acacia on top with the fine needle for the finish.

Also works for: wet felting, nuno felting, blending your own skin tones, spinning, and needle-felted painting.

Specs

• Extra fine carded merino, approx. 19 microns
• Australian and South American fleece, selected for consistent colour lot to lot
• Mulesing free
• Dyed to Oeko-Tex Standard 100, in a GOTS 5.0 and GRS certified dye house
• Sold in 20g (0.7 oz) and 100g (3.5 oz)

Once our Extra Fine Merino stock is gone, our finest wool will be the Maori and carded NZ ranges — lovely wools, but not this fine.