Adelaide Walker
Accessories & Tools, Dyes, Yarns
British wools, plant and silk fibres, needle and wet felting supplies, dyes, books, looms and spinning equipment. Ashford stockists.
Telephone: 01943 830600
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Airedale Yarns
Patterns & Kits, Yarns
A mouth watering selection of yarns for all types of crafts to get your juices flowing. From weaving and rug wools, macrame and braiding cords to knitting and crochet yarns. Plus exclusive patterns and kits.
Telephone: 01535 669141
Botanical Yarn
Accessories & Tools, Yarns
Curation of hand dyed wools and crochet accessories, trying to make crochet cool again!
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Brambles & Me
Dyes, Yarns
Brambles & Me is a natural dye business located within the heart of Newcastle upon Tyne in the North East of England. Beautifully hand-dyed yarns using only naturally derived extracts from roots, bark, leaves, and insects create unique colours influenced by the great outdoors.
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Cable & Blake
Fleece, Yarns
Designers and producers of luxurious Herdwick fabric for use in soft furnishings, upholstery, clothing, accessories, lampshades and gifts.
Telephone: 07972 578306
Caithness Yarns
Yarns
Caithness Yarns offer premium yarns from our own, and some friends, happy healthy sheep. We have a flock of old fashioned "True" North Country Cheviots, the kind that have thrived on the hill up here since the 1770's. We also feature a Wool Alpaca blend of surpassing sumptuousness made with the fleece of my own, and Kate Clarke from Hill of Crudie's, very Rare British Breed Castlemilk Moorit (or as I often mutter, "wee broon jobs"). I run my farm with a zealous attention to animal welfare (come talk to me about this) because happy healthy sheep makes for better fleece and better yarn for you.
Telephone: 07704 325045
Clothfelt
Accessories & Tools, Crafts, Felting, Yarns
Needle felted sculptures and brooches. Needle felting supplies, hand blended batts, core wool needles. For 3D and 2D felting.
Telephone: 07867 113245
Coastal Colours
Accessories & Tools, Clothing, Patterns & Kits, Yarns
Hand dyed luxury knitting yarns in 4ply and lace weights using exotic fibres such as Alpaca, Yak, Silk, Cashmere and Camel, as well as Bluefaced Leicester and Merino. Our own blend of Alpaca Silk Cashmere tops for hand spinning in 5 natural colours and well as hand dyed. We are adding custom blends to our range of fibres and our latest is Merino Silk Yak which is proving popular in both dark and light versions. We also have hand dyed tops using various wool and exotic fibre mixes. Also available are knitting patterns, knitting needles, kits and handmade wooden lucets and buttons
Telephone: 07825 041468
Coolcrafting
Crafts, Yarns
Crafting, sewing and knitting inspiration from the edge of the English Lake district. Home of Luna Lapin & Friends.
Telephone: 01539 724099
Crystal Yarn
Dyes, Yarns
Local indy dyer with yarns inspired by the natural beauty of crystals and gemstones along with astronomy.
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14 Dina's Home of Crafts
Accessories & Tools, Patterns & Kits, Yarns
Dina's Home of Crafts is an independent crafts company which specializes in luxury hand dyed yarns and fibre as well as offers a large variety of knitting and crochet accessories. We also launch a new pattern for each show and offer kits to go with it.
Telephone: 07939 226224
Doulton Border Leicester Yarns
Clothing, Yarns
Small independent farm from North Yorkshire, who run a slaughter free flock of pedigree Border Leicesters, producing 100% pure, British Border Leicester, rare breed, Limited Edition, worsted spun yarn. We also produce and sell beautiful Border Leicester fleeces and Tops. Born, sheared, scoured and spun in Yorkshire. Made in Yorkshire. Watching our footprint!
Telephone: 07860 363742
Down Sheepy Lane
Accessories & Tools, Yarns
Down Sheepy Lane offers luxury hand dyed yarn on a range of bases from laceweight mohair all the way through to chunky slub. All yarn is hand dyed by Debbie from the dye studio in South Derbyshire. Down Sheepy Lane also stocks handmade project bags and stitch markers to enhance the making experience.
Telephone: 07827 324473
Ducky Darlings yarns
Yarns
Beautiful hand dyed yarns on various luxury bases. All uniquely dyed in small batches by myself in the lovely Derbyshire dales where i live. I have various weights and sizes of yarns from 10g to full 300g shawl sets.
Telephone: 07732 337297
Emily Foulds
Accessories & Tools, Yarns
A warm welcomes you at Emily Foulds. We have a wonderful collection of yarns, from the UK and around the world. We specialise in unique and beautiful yarns to help you to create your next project. We will be showcasing, The Fibre Co, Isager, TOFT and West Yorkshire Spinners.
Telephone: 0800 228 9400
Hawkshaw Sheep
Yarns
Hawkshaw Sheep produce bespoke limited edition yarns and tweed cloth, created with the fleeces from my own sheep. In a range of natural undyed and carefully hand dyed colours. These products all have full provenance. I now use the Tweed Valley Yarn label, for any product that has been created from fleeces sourced from friends and acquaintances flocks, this means I can now bring a greater range of single breed and blended yarn to the marketplace.
Telephone: 01899 636983
HotButterYarns
Patterns & Kits, Yarns
My products are a range of garments, accessories, dyed yarns and patterns. My dyed yarns have been source locally and are a mix of BFL and Masham. I also spin and dye fleece from local farms in Yorkshire. My patterns are simple and stylish, show casing the wool first and foremost. These are sold either in kits or separately. I have a good range of prices for my products giving a variety of choices and quality to my customers.
Telephone: 07985 190984
Lammermuir Wool
Yarns
Lammermuir Wool is home-grown and locally sourced pure Shetland Wool in a range of undyed and hand-dyed shades. We love our small flock of sheep and believe that that care produces great wool for sustainable fashion. Based in the hills of southern Scotland, this yarn is available in laceweight, 4ply and DK.
Telephone: 07519 871417
Low Lands Legacy
Accessories & Tools, Dyes, Spinning Wheels, Yarns
Kromski spinning wheels, Bogway hand spinners, wool dye, wool.
Telephone: 0031 579 647938
Lucy Locket Land
Patterns & Kits, Tuition, Yarns
Lucy Locket Land is so much more than a shop! Based on the outskirts of Sunderland it is a happy, friendly creative hub, showcasing natural yarns, unique knitting, sewing and crochet kits and my own range of hand dyed yarns. I also host affordably luxurious craft retreats in Northumberland.
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SAORImôr
Accessories & Tools, Demonstrations, Weaving, Yarns
SAORImôr Freestyle Weaving for Everyone. Classes Talks and Demos. No rules, no mistakes, just enjoy playing with colour and texture to make your own one-of-a-kind textile. Come and try a SAORI loom on our stand. I have SAORI equipment, books, exclusive ready-made warps and yarns. Also some SAORI woven garments and gifts.
Telephone: 01248 345325
That's Sew Ewe
Artwork, Carpets, Rugs & Throws, Crafts, Yarns
Kate is a fibre artist based in the North East working from the raw fleece of local British breeds through to the finished product. She specialises in needle felted pictures, hand felted accessories, gifts and wool based lifestyle products.
Telephone: 07866 581410
The Knitting Gift Shop
Accessories & Tools, Crafts, Patterns & Kits, Yarns
The Knitting Gift Shop is run by Tricia and Ian Fothergill specialising in unique high quality gifts for knitters. They have their own range of natural undyed and dyed wool, knitting designs and knitting kits. Tricia designs all of the patterns and the wool is produced from fleece that they buy from farms throughout the UK and have spun for them in Yorkshire and Devon. Another large part of their business is their large range of wooden & ceramic yarn bowls and wooden yarn servers & swifts, all of which are produced locally for them. They also sell a large range of knitting accessories and gifts including wooden needle gauges,and metal shawl pins & brooches.
Telephone: 07528 812731
The Skep
Clothing, Patterns & Kits, Yarns
Beautiful yarns, designer and exclusive Skep patterns of gorgeous accessories and garments that are a pleasure to create and wear.
Telephone: 07957 963398
The Threshing Barn
Accessories & Tools, Dyes, Yarns
An Aladdin’s cave of craft supplies, materials and equipment for spinners, weavers, dyers, knitters, felt makers and textile artists. We sell everything you need from spinning wheels, weaving looms to books, fibres, yarns, kits etc. New this year are our carved wooden printing blocks, fabric paints and fabric blanks.
Telephone: 01748 884025
Thorndolly Yarn
Yarns
I am an indie dyer of yarn, based in Lancashire, taking my inspiration often from the beautiful landscapes around the area. I use British wool wherever possible, from suppliers based in the UK, to both celebrate the diversity of breeds found here and to limit the carbon footprint of my base yarns. When the North West weather allows I use a low energy solar dye method. My yarns are suitable for a range of projects, from DK shawls to delicate lace weight items - and of course, the ever popular socks!
Telephone: 01772 314453
Tine and Floyd
Yarns
Tine and Floyd offers a wide variety of hand spun and hand dyed yarns as well as various animal and plant fibres and blends. Most of their wool is sourced from farms where Tine trains her Border Collie, Floyd. They are dealers for SpinOlution wheels.
Telephone: 07921 576145
Wensleydale Longwool Sheep Shop
Clothing, Patterns & Kits, Yarns
Wensleydale Longwool Sheep Shop was established in 1989 and this year we are celebrating our 30th Anniversary. We are based in the Market town of Leyburn in the heart of Wensleydale and sell luxurious pure Wensleydale yarn in Aran, DK and 4ply in Naturals and "Shades of the Dales", Combed Tops (Rovings), Exclusive Sheep Shop patterns, kits, Dyed Wensleydale Locks, Notions and Garments.
Telephone: 01969 623558
Williams' Wools
Accessories & Tools, Patterns & Kits, Yarns
We specialize in local and British wool, hand-dyed in Cumbria using natural dyes.
Telephone: 015394 43526
Woolyknit
Clothing, Hats, Yarns
Yarn on the Cone [500g] - Linen, Merino, Acrylic & British Wool. Hand Knitting Yarn - 4ply, Aran. Hanks - Linen, 100% British Wool, Chunky Wool Tops - Merino, BFL, British, Norwegian. 100% British Wool Socks, Hats, Scarves, Gloves. Warth Mill DK Hand Knitting Yarn.
Telephone: 01457 879400
