Dr.MRO/ Axel Folio

I'm behind and I'm also under the weather bc the sun refuses to shine here but I promised you all a draw for customer appreciation. Congrats to our Yarnian who won a free freaking skein! Thank you all for sharing, caring & creativity. Another draw in a couple of months!!

Yup, Yarnia has both a yarn club & a roving club. Some fiber lovers have joined both & now I have to figure out how to consolidate these for some of you bc that was unexpected. I should never ever underestimate fiber lovers. I have learned my lesson. 🧶

Anyway next month's sneak peek coming soon!

I do indeed! Yarnia is here whenever you are ready! 🫡🫶🏾

Thank you, thank you!

Thank you so much. I was a little worried this colorway wouldn't land and I didn't want to let the couple who are the inspiration down so I'm glad to hear this.

Split image. Left: a skein of yarn in a silvery platinum grey with subtle undertones of pale purple and soft pink, resting on airy fiber. The color appears cool at first glance but shifts gently with light. Right: a late medieval manuscript illustration showing a Black knight on horseback during pilgrimage, wearing light-colored garments and riding through a simple landscape.

Left: a skein of yarn in a silvery platinum grey with subtle undertones of pale purple and soft pink, resting on airy fiber. The color appears cool at first glance but shifts gently with light.

For #BlackHistoryMonth, this image reminds us that Black history is also in medieval pilgrimage, devotion, and endurance. Black people traveled. Black people journeyed. Black people were seen and recorded along the road. 🧶
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A hand-knit garment in a soft platinum-grey yarn with subtle undertones of pale lavender and blush pink. The fabric features lace and stockinette sections, highlighting gentle color shifts. A small crocheted heart made from a suri silk blend rests on the garment, its fuzzy halo catching hints of pastel purple, blue, and pink. The overall effect is soft, luminous, and quietly iridescent.

This is a grey w/ memory in it. A grey w/ direction. I made this to go especially well w/ suri silk haze. The halo catches the blush & lavender notes and lifts them just enough to create that pearly, iridescent effect. The heart detail in one of the pics shows it off well.
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4 skeins of yarn in a silvery platinum grey with subtle undertones of pale purple and soft pink, resting on an airy rainbow colored skein.

as a cool silver-platinum, but look longer & the surface begins to shift. Soft violet & pink glazing sits just over the grey, catching the light differently as the yarn moves. The effect is intentional: restrained, luminous, almost iridescent.

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4 skeins of yarn in a silvery platinum grey with subtle undertones of pale purple and soft pink with an open skein on the right. There are burgundy roses scattered around

figures hovering at the edges of history, but participants within it. Pilgrimage, after all, was one of the great engines of movement in the medieval world, & Black travelers are part of that story.

The colorway itself "Platinum Pilgrim" mirrors this presence. At first glance, the base reads
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angled shot of skeins of yarn in a silvery platinum grey with subtle undertones of pale purple and soft pink, resting on a variegated lavender blend. There are leaves scattered around

encounters, & landscapes stretching far beyond a narrow European world. This is not fantasy or allegory: it is observation.

Black pilgrims appear throughout medieval & early modern visual culture moving through sacred landscapes, undertaking devotion, labor, & travel. They're not marginal
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#BHM Day 15: Black Pilgrims on the Road 🧶

The figure at the heart of this colorway is a Black knight shown mid-journey, riding with purpose rather than spectacle. He appears in the late-15th-cent travel account of Arnold von Harff’s travel account, a record of pilgrimage routes,

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Thank you so much! Fingers crossed for you (don't tell others now!) for the draw on the 20th!

Ah, this is so kind. I love to hear it, and am glad things worked up well for you.

If you want (no pressure), you could upload that exact same review to the website here: II'm doing a draw for a free skein and anyone who submits a review is automatically entered! www.republicofyarnia.com/reviews

A pile of red skeins of various shades on a blue Velvet background

Thank you. Yes that's the colorway most folks have chosen although The Moor is a solid runner up. The Moor and Crimson Theban are the unlabeled ones in the pic. Red Velvet is labeled.

Variegated yarn in merino/tencel with an image of a portrait of a Black woman holding up floral garland.

Variegated yarn in merino/tencel with pearl necklaces and dried flowers scattered

Variegated yarn in merino/tencel with an image of a portrait of a Black woman holding up floral garland.

Variegated yarn in merino/tencel flank roving in the middle

Today is the last day to get your hands on Feb's monthly yarn or roving colorway: Petals & Presence. The story of our figure of inspiration was one I really enjoyed researching bc she was a little outside my area of expertise. Twas a win win bc I learned so much along the way too! 🧶

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🫶🏾 My pleasure

Aw. 🫂 appreciate you.

Yes, the portrait is. It speaks so loudly about love in its subtleness. Love it.

Left: A hand-dyed yarn skein in muted earth tones of lichen green, weathered sage, soft grey with warm persimmon highlights winding through the strands. Right: An 1879 painting showing a Black couple seated closely, bodies angled toward each other in a quiet, affectionate moment, rendered in subdued greens, oranges, and warm browns.

On a silver plate is a hand-dyed yarn skein in muted earth tones of lichen green, weathered sage, soft grey with warm persimmon highlights winding through the strands. Beside it is an 1879 painting showing a Black couple seated closely, bodies angled toward each other in a quiet, affectionate moment, rendered in subdued greens, oranges, and warm browns. There is a gold strip running through and cream roses scattered around

To be free here is to be allowed tenderness.

Black tenderness has a history, even when the archive refuses to give us names.🧶

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On a bed of creamy yarn is a hand-dyed yarn skein in muted earth tones of lichen green, weathered sage, soft grey with warm persimmon highlights winding through the strands.

rupture.

Black love is too often omitted altogether. This image offers something rarer: a moment where freedom allows for gentleness, rest, & affection that doesn't need to perform or explain itself.

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On a silver plate is a hand-dyed yarn skein in muted earth tones of lichen green, weathered sage, soft grey with warm persimmon highlights winding through the strands. Beside it is an 1879 painting showing a Black couple seated closely, bodies angled toward each other in a quiet, affectionate moment, rendered in subdued greens, oranges, and warm browns.

skin, cloth, & shared heat subtly amplified through the variegation so the yarn opens up as it’s worked. The colors are intertwined & balanced, never competing, they move together w/ intention.

For #BlackHistoryMonth, this matters profoundly. Black freedom is often narrated through violence or
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an angled shot of hand-dyed yarn skein in muted earth tones of lichen green, weathered sage, soft grey with warm persimmon highlights winding through the strands. there's a gold strip behind it

symbolic it is lived, ordinary, & deeply human.

The palette reflects that restraint & warmth. Softened lichen greens & weathered sage create an earthen calm, gently muted by a grey overtone. Woven through the skein is a warmer persimmon note w/ a little vibrance of a deeper orange. An echo of
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On a silver plate is a hand-dyed yarn skein in muted earth tones of lichen green, weathered sage, soft grey with warm persimmon highlights winding through the strands. Beside it is an 1879 painting showing a Black couple seated closely, bodies angled toward each other in a quiet, affectionate moment, rendered in subdued greens, oranges, and warm browns. There is a gold strip running through and cream roses scattered around

While their names are not recorded, the context matters: this is an image of ppl who are no longer enslaved. That freedom is not announced through spectacle or triumph, but through posture & proximity. They sit calmly, touching softly, & their closeness is unguarded. Affection here is not

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#BHM Day 14: Warmed Earth Embrace 🧶

This is a new colorway & perfect to talk abt today as it's rooted in tenderness, freedom, & quiet intimacy. The colorway draws inspiration from Miguel Ângelo Lupi's 1879 painting depicting a formerly enslaved Black couple seated closely together.

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Left image: A twisted skein of hand-dyed yarn showing a smooth gradient from deep sapphire-teal through lighter teal into soft white, photographed against similarly toned yarn in the background. Right image: Detail from a 17th-century French painting showing a young boy with dark skin wearing a white turban and a silver collar, holding a green parrot against a muted blue-green background; he stands behind a European figure and looks slightly off to the side with a calm, composed expression.

A twisted skein of hand-dyed yarn showing a smooth gradient from deep sapphire-teal through lighter teal into soft white, photographed against similarly toned yarn in the background.

but as a person whose life mattered, even if history did not record his name.

Remember Black & brown children in history, those whose lives were constrained, claimed, or erased & those who continue to be treated as expendable. 🧶

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3 skeins of coiled hand-dyed yarn showing a smooth gradient from deep sapphire-teal through lighter teal into creamy white to the right is a picture of a 17th-century French painting showing a young boy with dark skin wearing a white turban and a silver collar, holding a green parrot against a muted blue-green background; he stands behind a European figure and looks slightly off to the side with a calm, composed expression. There is a silver strip in the lower right corner

of looking. Deep sapphire & teal are a nod to the boy's coat, while the slow fade into soft creamy white creates space to reflect, remember, & hold this child not as an accessory or symbol,
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In the top is an open skein of hand-dyed yarn showing a smooth gradient from deep sapphire-teal through lighter teal into creamy white Below it is a picture of a 17th-century French painting showing a young boy with dark skin wearing a white turban and a silver collar, holding a green parrot against a muted blue-green background; he stands behind a European figure and looks slightly off to the side with a calm, composed expression. There are roses scattered around

children, past & present, whose lives have been shaped by exploitation, violence, & dispossession. Children at home, abroad, in history books & children whose stories never made it onto the page. This boy belongs to that longer, ongoing story.

"Tranquil Teal" takes its palette from this moment
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3 skeins of hand-dyed yarn showing a smooth gradient from deep sapphire-teal through lighter teal into creamy white. There is a silver strip in the lower right corner

pleading. He simply is. That quiet presence asks us to look longer & to reckon w/ what it means to encounter a child whose life was shaped by forces far beyond his control.

For #BlackHistoryMonth, it felt important to pause here, not only to remember him, but to think abt the countles unnamed
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2 skeins of hand-dyed yarn showing a smooth gradient from deep sapphire-teal through lighter teal into creamy white. To the right is an ipen skein and there are sticks and cream colored potpourri scattered.

Childhood, across time & place, is one of the most vulnerable positions a human being can occupy.

And yet, he resists complete erasure. His posture is composed. His gaze is steady, turned slightly away from the viewer, withheld rather than offered. He isn't animated for spectacle. He isn't
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angled shot of 3 skeins of hand-dyed yarn showing a smooth gradient from deep sapphire-teal through lighter teal into creamy white

there. That absence is not accidental. Black & brown children like him, then as now, are among the most consistently erased figures in history. Trafficking, enslavement, forced displacement, war, & colonial violence have always relied on children who could be taken, moved, renamed & forgotten.
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