Warstone Lane
Warstone Lane is the decidedly Halloween themed colourway, inspired by Warstone Lane cemetery, one of the Jewellery Quarter’s Victorian cemeteries.
The cemetery is the resting place of John Baskerville, creater of the Baskerville type font which is still in use today and which the eagle eyed will notice is the font used on all Second City Yarns’ products and signage. Other notable graves include Harry Gem, who founded the world’s first tennis club and William Chance, whose company ‘Chance Glass’ glazed the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition in 1851.
The name ‘War stone’ is a derivation of ‘Hoar Stone’ which means white or frosty and refers to the glacial erratic which used to serve as the boundary marker between the manors of Aston, Birmingham and Handsworth. The stone is still in position just inside the railings of the cemetery.
Why not take a wander with me through the dead centre of the Jewellery Quarter
Warstone Lane is the decidedly Halloween themed colourway, inspired by Warstone Lane cemetery, one of the Jewellery Quarter’s Victorian cemeteries.
The cemetery is the resting place of John Baskerville, creater of the Baskerville type font which is still in use today and which the eagle eyed will notice is the font used on all Second City Yarns’ products and signage. Other notable graves include Harry Gem, who founded the world’s first tennis club and William Chance, whose company ‘Chance Glass’ glazed the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition in 1851.
The name ‘War stone’ is a derivation of ‘Hoar Stone’ which means white or frosty and refers to the glacial erratic which used to serve as the boundary marker between the manors of Aston, Birmingham and Handsworth. The stone is still in position just inside the railings of the cemetery.
Why not take a wander with me through the dead centre of the Jewellery Quarter
Warstone Lane is the decidedly Halloween themed colourway, inspired by Warstone Lane cemetery, one of the Jewellery Quarter’s Victorian cemeteries.
The cemetery is the resting place of John Baskerville, creater of the Baskerville type font which is still in use today and which the eagle eyed will notice is the font used on all Second City Yarns’ products and signage. Other notable graves include Harry Gem, who founded the world’s first tennis club and William Chance, whose company ‘Chance Glass’ glazed the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition in 1851.
The name ‘War stone’ is a derivation of ‘Hoar Stone’ which means white or frosty and refers to the glacial erratic which used to serve as the boundary marker between the manors of Aston, Birmingham and Handsworth. The stone is still in position just inside the railings of the cemetery.
Why not take a wander with me through the dead centre of the Jewellery Quarter
Yarn base
100% Dorset Horn 4 ply / sock 100g skeins (approx 350m)
Our non superwash yarn is spun in Yorkshire from British fleece and hand dyed in small batches in Birmingham. Whilst colour consistency between batches is good, due to the dyeing process no two skeins will be identical and there may be slight colour variations between batches. It is therefore recommended that you buy enough yarn from the same batch to complete your projects and that you alternate skeins every other row.
Once you have completed your garment, it is recommended that you handwash your finished item in lukewarm water with your wool wash of choice and lay your washed garment flat to dry. Although the yarn is thoroughly rinsed after dyeing, some slight colour bleed may occur at first wash.
I photograph my yarn in natural daylight, however colour variations can occur between monitors.