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Anzula:

At Anzula, based in Fresno, California, they hand-dye yarns and fibers made from the most luxurious fibers in the world like cashmere, camel, silk, linen, SeaCell, alpaca, yak, and milk protein.

Biches et Buches:

Behind the brand of biches & bûches is a Scandinavian family settled in France, Astrid designs garnments of wool with a deep love for sweaters and cozy shawls, with our natural wool coming from a family-owned fiber mill in Scotland. We then create knitting kits with the two combined and Caroline and Louise take a lot of photographs

xx astrid & caroline & louise

Brown Sheep Yarns:

The land that this company sits on was purchased over 100 years ago by the current owner’s (Peggy Jo Wells) great grandfather, E.W. Brown. He purchased a half section of land in western Nebraska and moved his fledging family out west. He was attracted by the fertile farm land of the North Platte River valley which gave him room to grow and have his small flock of sheep. When he passed away, he left his small flock to her father. The late 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and mid way through the 70’s were good farming and sheep and wool production years. But in 1975, farming prices were far from good and markets for lamb were diminishing, causing Mr. Brown’s son to look for alternative methods of making a living from the land that he loved. January of 1980 saw the arrival of the first truck loads of used equipment to spin yarn. This equipment had been used in the southeast where the textile industry had flourished after the Second World War until the 1980’s. The equipment, which this farmer had never seen in his life, came without any operational manuals. By July 4, he had spun his first ball of yarn. When his trunk was full, he hit the road to try to pedal his wares. During his first selling trip he was told everything from no to you must have stolen the yarn to I will take the whole trunk full. Her father’s perseverance paid off and the little mill that could did indeed flourish. By the late 1990’s Peggy’s dad had a growing company and was seeking some assistance. Peggy’s husband, Robert, and she decided to give up careers and life in Ft. Collins, CO to join the family business. From 2004 until 2010 90% of the old used equipment was replaced with new, state of the art textile equipment, making Brown Sheep a viable “Made in the USA” member of the yarn industry for years to come. In 2010 and 2011 Robert put Brown Sheep on the map in a whole new way. He researched and developed a new program that allows the company to reuse 70 to 90% of their daily waste water.

Camellia Fiber Company:

Camellia Fiber Company is a collection of luxury hand-dyed fibers, hand-spun yarns, and spinning notions in Nashville, Tennessee. Their mill-spun yarns are carefully sourced and dyed in small batches, and their hand-spun yarns are made with love in their Nashville studio. Silbia, the current owner, started as an assistant and, in 2016, took on the company. She dyes all of your yarn, she spins all of the handspun, and she hand-writes the thank you note in each of your packages. Nothings goes into your hands without it going through hers first. Her favorite thing to knit is the chunky blanket!

Dream in Color:

Two women in Illinois became involved in a Waldorf school, found themselves focused on the impact of color on their and their children’s lives, and opened a yarn shop organized around color. They began dyeing yarn in the shop’s back room where they developed Dream in Color’s special, veil dyeing technique. In 2006 they closed the shop to focus on running Dream in Color, a company dedicated to using domestic fibers and mills whenever possible. They now call Tuscon, Arizona their home, and continually produce amazing dreamy innovative color to dream about!

The Fibre Company:

The Fibre Company was founded in 2004 by Iain Stanley and Daphne Marinopoulos as a spinning mill and processing center. Focusing on interesting blends of natural fibers, the unique yarns are all carefully developed to achieve the perfect combination of softness and structure. The beautiful, saturated and sophisticated colors in the lines are all kettle dyed to create a subtle variation in tone and color. Many of their yarns are sourced from Peru. In 2008, the Fibre Company partnered with Philadelphia-based Kelbourne Woolens and the two companies now work together to create and distribute the Fibre Company’s beautiful yarns + the Kelbourne Woolens line of hand knitting and crochet patterns.

Fyberspates:

Fyberspates started as a hand dyed company in the UK in early 2005 when hand dyed yarn was hard to get hold of. Browsing the internet and seeing the dreamy colours you could buy in the USA, the owner looked around the internet for UK companies who were doing the same thing. At the time, these were few and far between. As the company grew it became clear very quickly that they would not be able to manufacture yarns in their own back garden on a scale large enough to supply shops as well as their beloved customers, and so Scrumptious was born! Scrumptious was their very first commercial yarn and the Scrumptious range grew from there. After a while they wanted to go back to their hand dyed roots and produce a yarn range which reflected the delicious colours they loved so much in the yarns they hand dyed, and Vivacious was created! They flew to South America, spoke no Spanish, and the dyers spoke no English, but they worked together with lots of sign language taught the South Americans their recipes. In return they now dye the most wonderful Vivacious and Gleam ranges.

Knit Collage:

Knit Collage began when founder Amy Small fell in love with hand spinning long ago. From that time on, creating a business that meshed with her creative passion became an obsession. The company began when on the advice of a yarn store owner, Amy decided to take her first yarn collection to an industry tradeshow. The yarns were snapped up by some of the best yarn retailers around the world and instantly Knit Collage was born.
Amy is inspired by the places she travels, especially India & Hong Kong where she lived, and constantly collects things that usually become incorporated in her yarns. This could be hand-printed fabrics from Jaipur or shimmering paisley trims found on Indian wedding garb. Along with trims and textiles, Amy loves fiber and texture and is always challenging herself to come up with new colors and spinning techniques.

Less Traveled Yarns:

I’m Sarah! Growing up in Arizona, it never occurred to me that I lived in a fiber desert…
In 2017, I was working a corporate job, which entailed a lot of travel. My time in airports and hotels was soon filled with knitting! As I got deeper and deeper into the craft, my desire for new colors and fibers surpassed what I could find locally. Inspired by my surroundings and looking for a bit of a challenge, I decided to embark on my own fiber journey!
We believe strongly in the slow fashion movement, and providing the highest quality yarns to support your hand-made wardrobe. Offering a variety of bases, ranging from sock yarns to luxury bases, it is truly a pleasure to be a part of the garments that we know you will rock for years to come! Our flagship line, Less Traveled Yarn has really enabled our small family business (myself and my husband Matt) to take the “Road Less Traveled!” Because of your continued encouragement and support, we are lucky enough to get to do what we love every day, together!

Life In The Long Grass:

Life in the Long Grass was born from the joy of creating and living in rural Ireland. Once we restored our one-hundred-year-old derelict farmhouse, we set up our dye studio in our field so we could live by the values that are important to us: Ethical yarns, local employment, slow living, care, and quality – when all this came together, LITLG was born.
We choose our yarns carefully making sure they come from farms with ethical practices in Uruguay, Peru, England, Argentina, France, and Portugal. These farms are mulesing-free which means fair and humane treatment of their sheep.
We dye with meticulous detail and care to ensure quality and to enjoy the process. This means that all batches are as similar as possible and we enjoy the slow, stress-free process of creating them.

Our studio is open and bright, purpose-built to let in as much fresh air as possible to ensure a comfortable working environment for our wonderful team of dyers and packers.


We use a mixture of non-toxic acid dyes, low impact fiber reactive dyes, and natural dyes – we set with a food-grade setting agent. We double set to ensure that we don’t have skeins that bleed and we re-use our water to minimize wastage.
Our packaging and labels are all recycled kraft paper and the paper we use in our publications is recycled also.
We dye both non-toxic superwash and non-superwash yarns.

Madelinetosh:

Madelinetosh, affectionately known as MadTosh or (Mad-e-line-Tosh), was founded in 2006, as an ETSY SHOP. Based in Fort Worth, Texas, the iconic brand has grown into one of the most dynamic and leading hand-dyed yarn companies in the world. In the Fall of 2019, the MadTosh team was adopted by the Jimmy Beans family, led visionaries and adventurers Laura and Doug Zander.

A longtime MadTosh superfan (and one of the many filled with unconditional love for the brand), Laura and her team have been charged with preserving the MadTosh legacy of soft, interesting and decadent yarn, pioneering dye techniques and original ideas of how to use color.

Malabrigo:

This relatively young yarn company is family owned in Uruguay, and works closely with a cooperative of women to create their yarn. It started in 2004 when Antonio Gonzalez-Arnao decided to dye yarn in his kitchen. The yarn is kettle dyed and the company’s name comes from the Spanish “Mal Abrigo” which means “Bad Shelter”, because of a tiny town in San Jose that is extremely windy. The owners were inspired by the idea of a place so cold everyone cozied up inside their homes knitting warm, wooly sweaters together. They only work with wool that comes from mulesing-free sheep and employ environmentally safe practices in processing the wool. They use as little water and as few chemicals as possible, and water, wool waste and dye waste which cannot be re-used are transported to a detoxification plant to be cleaned and treated for re-use. Uruguay is an epicenter of wool fiber and yarn production, and Malabrigo uses mills in Uruguay and Peru to spin their wool.

Manos de Uruguay:

The Manos Cooperatives were founded in 1968 by five women whose goal was to develop economic opportunities for women in a country where there are few chances for work. They began by selling handcrafts at local shops and an annual agricultural show. Over time, spinning, dyeing, weaving and knitting became focal points. From 1976-1986 they ran a showroom in New York selling knitted and woven garmets as well as yarn. The Cooperatives have since expanded to include 17 individual cooperatives employing approximately 350 women. The yarns are all still line dryed out of doors. The Cooperatives provide health insurance, retirement pensions, paid vacations and paid maternity leave for their members, and the Manos cooperatives established the first kindergartens in Uruguay to provide childcare for the artisans. Each skein of Manos yarn is signed so you will know when you buy it who made your yarn and from which village it came, supporting the hand-crafted and contributing to an economy where the workers control the means of production. The Manos Cooperative is certified by the World Fair Trade Organization, backing up their mission to eradicate poverty through sustainable economic development, pioneering social and environmental policy and practice, and continual reinvestment in marginalized artisans, farmers and producer communities. It is the only mass produced yarn on the market today that is spun by hand.

Mary Gavan Yarns:

Mary Gavan’s love of art began at a very early age. After majoring in fine arts at Arizona State University she found her passion; textiles, and began weaving – producing a line of decorative art for homes and commercial spaces. Her work was sold throughout the U.S. in art galleries and juried exhibitions. During this time Mary found a need for specific colors of yarn that were not readily available, and her dyeing career was born.

Mrs. Moon:

We believe that if you are spending your time knitting or crocheting then you should use the best possible fibres for your creations. Our Plump and Plump dk yarns are made from the highest quality, ethically sourced, superfine merino and baby alpaca which makes them incredible soft for all the right reasons.

When we started out as a yarn store in SW London, we quickly worked out what our customers and we wanted when it came to handknitting yarns. Simple luxury. A yarn that is natural, soft, wears well, is responsibly sourced and comes in beautiful colours!

And so our first yarn Plump was born. The fibres used in Plump and Plump dk tick all of the boxes above. And we have very carefully chosen our colour palette so that you really can’t go wrong when deciding which one to use. The colours are all named after some of our favourite sweet things…. so you might like Fondant Fancy, Pistachio Ice Cream or Gooseberry Fool.

MYak:

mYak was born of more than twenty years living and working with the nomadic herders of the Tibetan Plateau. Together they’re building more than a business. They’re building a future for one of the world’s most ancient ways of life. Paola and her company believe in responsibility, traceability and sustainability. They source their wool directly from nomadic Tibetan herders, contributing to the well-being of the local community. The fiber is hand-combed from the undercoat of baby yaks and cashmere goats with no harm to the animal. They deeply believe sustainability means respect for diverse cultures and ways of life, adding value to local resources and traditions while protecting their origins, and crafting products meant to last not for a season, but for generations. Their activities are equally imbued with care for people, animals and the environment as well as for the social and ethical values that characterize their entire chain.

Olann:

Olann was born out of a desire to create a range of sophisticated colours on ethically sourced yarns. Jess believes in doing things the proper way. Her story began with a yearning to create with her hands, using experimental dye techniques and traditional materials, to return to a more sustainable time when quality and craftsmanship were valued over the mass produced. They are makers and designers. In their small Irish workshop they dye yarn in small batches, with emphasis on material and process. Knowing and caring where their materials come from is the bones of their business. Small is good, individual is good.

Olann yarns come from little farms in South America that guarantee fair and humane treatment to their herds of sheep. They pre-wash the yarns to remove lanolin and any dust that may have been caught during the spinning stage. When the undyed hanks are delivered, she stores them carefully, in dry conditions and away from light. Olann uses non toxic acid dyes and a food grade citric acid as their setting agent. All the dye is exhausted from the dye pots so that there is zero nasty stuff being poured into their drains. Citric acid also looses its potency as it helps the dye absorb into the fibres. Rest assured, they are environmentally friendly. Water is often re-used to also minimise water usage and wastage. After the dye process is completed, the freshly dyed yarn takes a long nice soak in gentle wool wash to ensure all that citric acid water is scrupulously rinsed from the yarn.

Primrose Yarn Co:

Color, colors, and more colors. We can’t get enough! From speckled to solid; neon to grunge. We specialize in creating unique artisan colors for every type of fiber lover. Constantly inspired, we continue to add to our ever growing list of beautiful colorways.

Primrose Yarn Co is an indie-dyed yarn company that began in 2014 in the kitchen of business owner Kelsey Stephens. Though Primrose began as a small, in-home business, it quickly grew out of Kelsey’s home and into a 5,200 square foot studio space. Primrose Yarn Co is committed to producing high quality, beautiful, innovative yarns that exceed the expectations of our customers around the world.

QingFibre:

Qing Fibre is a London-based hand dyer. Originally from Beijing, China, Layla began dyeing yarn in London around 2015 and officially started her brand in 2016. We love Layla’s sense of style and colour so much and we know you will too!

Quince & Co.:

Quince & Co. was launched in 2010 by Pam Allen in partnership with a historic mill in Maine. Before starting Quince & Co., Pam found that the traditional way that yarn companies produce new yarns – going to trade shows and choosing from yarns designed by spinning mills – was unsatisfying and ultimately did not yield great products. She wanted to work with mills to design yarns from the ground up. Pam was also frustrated by how difficult it was to have yarns made in the US, where there was once a venerable textile tradition. Pam recruited fellow designer and yarnophile Carrie Bostick Hoge and, together with inventive and resourceful folks at spinning mills around the northeast, they created a line of classic, beautiful yarns from wool sourced and spun in the US.

They produce products as locally as they can, sourcing and spinning their yarns in the US, as much as possible. When they use fibers that aren’t from the US, they find out as much as possible about where they are from and how they came to be. If they’re sourcing a yarn from a plant fiber, they want to know if it was grown in conditions that are healthy for the soil and for those who tend and harvest it. If they’re looking for an animal fiber, they want to know if the animal was raised in a way that sustains the earth and preserves the culture of the people who care for it.

Rhichard Devrieze:

Perhaps Rhichard’s interest in hand-dyed yarns is partially genetic. His maternal grandfather was a fibre artist in The Netherlands.

From having his own flock of merino sheep, becoming a hand-spinner, then a hand-weaver and producer of a line of one-of-a-kind coats, jackets, vests, scarves and twice-woven rugs, to becoming a master dyer, his has been a journey of discovery and creation. With colour such an integral part of Rhichard’s life, it’s no wonder that ‘The Yarns of Rhichard Devrieze’ offers such a dazzling array and display of colourways and associated lyrical descriptions that are both appreciated and enjoyed so much by knitters, needlepointers, crocheters, weavers.

Rowan Yarns:

Even a big ginormous company has a story. Rowan was first established in 1978 by two Yorkshire men, Stephen Sheard and Simon Cockin. Initially with offices based above a grocery store, the business soon moved to Green Lane Mill, Holmfirth, where the Rowan team still works to this day. The aim was to develop colourful rug weaving yarns, as there was a lack of vibrant yarns on the market. The new Rowan yarns were targeted at designers and creative crafters so they could produce exciting contemporary designs. With the help of designer Kaffe Fassett, the focus quickly changed to handknit yarns, and the rest is history. They are an ethically conscious brand, with an emphasis on creating luxury, premium yarns sourced from organic, natural fibres.

Sun Valley Fibers:

A family run business located on a farm in the hills of southwest Wisconsin, Sun Valley specializes in hand dyeing luxurious artisan yarns and fibers in rich inspiring colors. Jeanette and George also hand make Yarn Buddies, a lazy susan for your yarn, from the finest varieties of wood found the world over. All of their yarns are hand dyed in small batches (6-8 skeins at a time). The fiber is all sourced in the United States, and the Icelandic fiber comes from their home flock.

Sweet Georgia Yarns:

An artisan hand dyed yarn company based in Vancouver, Canada and founded in 2005 by Felicia Lo, who does amazing gorgeous beautiful things with color.

Uschitita:

Beautiful hand-dyed yarns, lovingly created by Steffi. These yarns traveled all the way from the Netherlands, where Steffi and her husband, Jurgen, lend their affections to every single skein. And a few squirrels.

Zealana:

Zealana is a trademark brand of ultra soft, light, warm and durable luxury hand knitting yarns produced by Woolyarns Limited in New Zealand. Woolyarns is a leading yarn innovator dedicated to elevating New Zealand’s already superior, natural fibers with the exceptional properties of New Zealand Brushtail Possum fiber. Zealana yarns offer luxurious handle, they use high-quality natural fibers including fine merino and cashmere and superior yarn manufacturing making them some of the finest hand-knitting/crochet yarns available in the world. Zealana is available in three series, each providing different benefits to your knitting. Not only does Zealana yarn make a great project greater, its production helps make New Zealand’s ecosystem a lot healthier.

We also carry yarns and a variety of beautiful bags, books, gifts, tools and notions from such awesome companies as Universal, Sirdar, Plymouth, BareAsh (local), Chiaogoo, Knitters Pride, HiYa, Katrinkles, The Starfish Project, Atenti, and more.

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