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<b>loop</b> stocks a wide range of incredibly beautiful and quirky yarns from around the world. With a huge range of natural and hand-dyed artisan yarns, visiting Loop is like being at the best yarn fair in the world! Visit our London shop or see all of the yarns here available to order.

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loop stocks a wide range of incredibly beautiful and quirky yarns from around the world. With a huge range of natural and hand-dyed artisan yarns, visiting Loop is like being at the best yarn fair in the world! Visit our London shop or see all of the yarns here available to order.

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Beautiful 4 ply/Fingering weight yarns that are great for shawl and sock knitting with many unusual hand-dyed yarns as well as the basics.

4 Ply / Fingering weight yarns

<strong>Beautiful Alchemy Handpainted yarns.</strong><br /><br />Alchemy Yarns specialises in unique, luxurious yarns, with emphasis given to interesting blends of fibres. <br />Alchemy import the finest quality yarns from all around the world, in search of the inspiring and the beautiful. <br />All Alchemy yarns feature extraordinary quality, exquisite colour, and astute attention paid to the tactile experience.<br />Gina's colour palette is extraordinary.

Loop has a beautiful range of Alpaca Yarns from the thinnest lace to thicker yarns sourced from all over the world.<br />Some are 100% pure alpaca, including Qing Suri Baby, The Border MIll Alpaca Tweed and Isager Alpaca 1 and others are blends.

Loop has a terrific selection of Aran/Worsted weight yarns from the simplest to exquisite hand-dyes.

Aran / Worsted weight yarns

Here's where you'll find all of our yarns perfect for baby garments, blankets and accessories.  We cover a range of yarn weights from light organic cotton to snuggly and warm soft DK and worsted weight.   They are all  machine washable at 30 degrees making them practical as well as beautiful. <br /><br />You can also explore our adorable range of Baby Patterns <a href="https://www.loopknittingshop.com/c/203/Baby-Patterns/2">here:</a>

BC Garn is a family business founded in 1972 in Denmark. Today they are known for yarns of the highest quality. <br />Most of the yarns we stock from BC Garn are made of organic wool in a stunning range of colours.

welcome to Biches + Buches<br /><br /><strong>Beautiful new yarns at Loop!</strong><br /><br />we are a scandinavian family settled in france,  Astrid designs garments of wool with a deep love for sweaters and cozy shawls, with our natural wool coming from a family-owned fiber mill in Scotland. <br /><br />"for the heartful moments of going slow <br />putting thoughts and feelings into a single stitch<br />being part of making one's wardrobe <br />and being part of something bigger"<br /><br />xx astrid & caroline<br /><br /><br />
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Biches & Buches

Big Bad Wool at Loop, London. <br />We have the full range of all their beautiful colours as well as their patterns. <br />These yarns are perfect for the softest baby knitting or for a cozy project for you or a loved one.

Blue Moon Fiberarts 'Socks That Rock' are incredible light fingering weight yarns that are stunning in their colour palette. <br />Hand-dyed beauty.

Blue Moon Fiberarts

<span>Knitters are born makers and creators. They cannot exist on alpaca alone. So naturally, our selection of the highest quality fiber yarns has continued to grow. We are now becoming as revered for our specialty fibers, organic cotton, and premium pure Peruvian wool (can you say Woolstok?), as we are for our luxurious baby alpaca. We’re humbled at the love the knitting community has shown for all of our fibers. What a warm and fuzzy feeling.</span><br />Loop is thrilled to be stocking their new Woolstok 100% Peruvian Highland yarns, patterns and kits. <br />Loop also stocks their eco-friendly organic cotton in its' natural colour as well as Metalico. <br /><br />

Blue Sky Fibers

A family business based in Florence, Italy. Borgo de' Pazzi has been making yarns for over 40 years. We love their unusual chunky yarns that knit up quickly as well as being beautiful and fun.<br />Designed and manufactured in Italy.

Borgo de' Pazzi

Loop has the most beautiful and eclectic collection of incredible British yarns. It's like being at a yarn fair! Hand dyed yarns from independent dyers as well as the big guns.

Loop is proud to be the European Flagship shop for Brooklyln Tweed. Knitwear designer and photographer Jared Flood founded yarn and pattern company Brooklyn Tweed. <br /><br /> Brooklyn Tweed yarns are spun in Harrisville, New Hampshire, USA. <br />The fleece comes from Wyoming-reared Targhee-Columbia sheep. The wool is fleece-dyed to acheive rich heathers that give even the simplest fabrics depth and sophistication.<br />Loop is also proud to stock their limited edition yarns such as Ranch 02 which launches the afternoon of October 16th. <br />This is single origin yarn from Rambouillet fleece from Forbes ranch.<br /><br /> » <a class="text" href="http://www.loopknittingshop.com/category/335/Brooklyn_Tweed_Jared_Flood">See also Brooklyn Tweed / Jared Flood patterns</a>

Very beautiful yarns from Denmark.<br />Loop stocks two yarns from Trine of CaMaRose.<br />Trine started working as a freelance knit and crochet designer in 2007, designing for magazines in Denmark and Norway. <br />
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Our beautiful selection of yarns with cashmere.<br />Ranging from the finest 100% cashmere that is hand-dyed to sweet baby yarns with 5% cashmere included to make these the softest and most yummy yarns around.

Our selection of Chunky and Bulky weight yarns from the simplest to most exquisite hand-dyes.

Chunky/Super Chunky Weight Yarns

Loop has a fabulous collection of yarns from plant fibres such as cotton, bamboo and linen. Most are organic and hand-dyed.

Cotton, Linen and Plant Fibres

<span>Dandelion Yarns has a focus on sustainable and organic yarns, without compromising on quality and the well-being of animals.<br />Loop is so honoured to have Anna's Hand-dyed Organic merino yarns!<br /><br /><strong>Hand-dyed in Stockholm Sweden.</strong></span>

Dandelion Yarns

Daruma yarns are spun by a small mill in Japan, and are exclusively available to a small number of shops around the world. Loop is so proud to be the London Flagship shop!<br />Daruma yarns are made in 'Bishu', the main area in Japan for woolen fabric. Bishu is on the Noubi Plain, the source of the river Kiso, an easy place to grow mulberry and cotton and the soft water is suitable for the dyeing process. <br />The company started in Kyoto in 1901, making threads for silk fabrics and sewing threads. Eventually Daruma began to also work on the dye process and mills.<br />Today, the wonderful women of Amirisu Magazine collaborate with Daruma to design very beautiful patterns using the Genmou yarn.<br /><br />Have a look at the wonderful patterns specifically designed for Genmou yarns <a href="http://www.loopknittingshop.com/c/738/Daruma"><span style="color: #33cccc;">here</span></a>

<p>The Daughter of a Shepherd journey began with a firm commitment to using only 100% British wool from shepherds and producers within the United Kingdom, aiming to support all aspects of British manufacturing in the processing and production.</p>
<p>The overall colour of the Heritage yarns is a complex dark pitch brown with a reddish tint which becomes becomes silvery grey or tan in different lights. A soft handle produces a fabric with bounce and structure when knitted. The yarn retains its original signature scent of the fields, flock and new lambs in straw-filled barns and I am thrilled to bits with it!</p>
<p>Loop stocks both the DK and 4 Ply yarns as well as their Brume and Castlemilk Moorit DK yarns.</p>
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Daughter of a Shepherd

<span>De Rerum Natura is a wonderful small yarn producer in France<br /><span>The wool used is a blend of French and European merino <span>raised with concern for the well -being of animals and the recovery of their wool. All manufacturing is carried out in France with small flourishing mills and the utmost care and concern for the environment.  The result is yarn that is as soft and beautiful to knit with as it is to wear. </span></span><br /></span>

De rerum natura

Loop has an amazing selection of DK weight yarns from the simplest to the most exquisite hand-dyes.

DK (double knit) weight yarns

Stunning hand-dyed yarn, from German company DyeForYarn, some in shades exclusively for Loop! <br><BR>

Hand dyed yarn from Yorkshire, England with a very distinct colour palette that we love. We stock their Theseus Lace, Hayton 4 Ply and Bowland DK.<br />We have also started to stock Milburn DK.

Eden Cottage Yarns

Hand-painted and kettle dyed yarns.<br />To acheive the long colour runs in their Flux and Ombré yarns they have developed their own dyeing process. Though labour intensive, the hands-on nature of the process allows them to ensure an even consistency in the yarn and colours over multiple dye lots. <br /><br /> Their method also means that though their yarns will match very well from one dye lot to the next, no two balls of yarn will ever be the same. This is most apparent in their “Flux” range where the knitted fabric will have painterly variations that are made more dramatic as the stitch pattern simplifies. <br /><br />However Tina does it, Loop is crazy about Freia yarns. <br />Beautiful to look at and to knit with. We stock her yarns from lace weight to super bulky.<br /><br /> - See also <a class="text" href="http://www.loopknittingshop.com/category/497/KnitWhits_Freia">Knitwhit (Freia) patterns</a>

Habu carries unusal and difficult to find fine yarns from small mills in Japan and Asia for weavers, knitters, basket makers, stitchers, and artists. <br /><br /> The collection is pretty amazing. It's lovely too that the yarns come from small mills all over Japan and are produced to order. <br /><br /> For this reason, please be patient if something is out of stock as it can take a very long time to re-stock. We will do our best to keep at least a few of the beautiful habu yarns in stock at all times. <a href="http://www.loopknitting.com/yarn/habu.html"><br /></a>

Beautiful handspun yarns at Loop.

Loop has a gorgeous selection of over 50 different hand-dyed yarns from the UK, Europe, North and South America and Japan lovingly made by independent dyers of natural fibre yarns.<br />We're passionate about hand-dyes and natural fibres.

We stock the beautiful hand-dyed Casbah from Hand Maiden in Canada. <br><BR>

<span><br /><span>Harrisville Designs is a small family owned company maintaining over 200 years of textile traditions.  Harrisville Designs represents a handful of woolen mills left in the United States . <br /><br /><span>Woolen yarn has been spun in the water powered, brick mill town of Harrisville since 1794. This small village is nestled in the Monadnock Highlands of southwestern New Hampshire and is the only industrial community of the early 19th Century that still survives in America in its original form.<br /><br /><span>John J. Colony III  started Harrisville Designs in 1971 to keep the textile tradition alive and to create jobs in Harrisville for the economic vitality of the town. <span>Harrisville Designs continues to make high quality, natural 100% wool yarns for knitting and weaving along with beautiful carded fleece for felting and spinning.</span><br /><span>The Company is still owned and operated by John and Patricia Colony. They have been joined by two of their three sons, Timothy and Nicholas, who are interested in carrying on the textile tradition that's been part of their family for generations.<br /><br /></span></span></span></span>Loop is so pleased to be a able to bring you some of this very special yarn!</span>

Harrisville Designs

Illimani know about the ary of knitting:
Starting in 2001 with luxury ready to wear line of apparel hand made by artisans, knitted using the finest llama and alpaca wools, Illimani decided it was time to focus on the yarn, applying all their experience on knits and wools to carefully select the very best qualities available just for us. They have worked with thousands of artisans in Bolivia and in Peru, many of which have mastered the art of knitting. All of this is what they want to pass on to our customers while giving them the materials and the inspiration to create their own artisanal textiles.

Loop stocks Cadena - made form gorgeous Baby Alpaca and Ultrafine Merino wools.

<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Loop is proud to be the UK stockist for Isager yarns.<br /><br />The Danish company Isager has been supplying patterns and quality yarns made form natural fibres, both known and loved by knitters the world over since 1971. <br />The history of Isager began with designer Åse Lund Jensen (1920-1977), who established her studio in 1960. </span></p>
<p class="p2">Åse Lund Jensen’s work was rooted in the Danish crafts tradition, but she took her inspiration in particular from the Icelandic and Faroes knitting cultures.<br />Åse Lund Jensen was a pioneer in her field and throughout her career she worked continuously to get knitting recognised as a craft, through her many exhibitions and her work as a teacher at SKALS -School of Design and Crafts.   It was here that Marianne Isager and Åse Lund Jensen met and founded their friendship.  It was this friendship that later led to Marianne Isager continuing to produce eternally modern patterns  and beautiful high -quality woolen yarns through the company known today as Isager. </p>
<p class="p2">The Isager company now resides on a small farm in Tversted, a village in the north of Jutland close to the North Sea, surrounded by beautiful countryside. </p>
<p class="p2"><span style="color: #808080;">Have a browse through our many</span>  <span style="color: #33cccc;"><a href="http://www.loopknittingshop.com/c/652/Isager"><span style="color: #33cccc;">Isager Pattern Books</span></a> </span><span style="color: #808080;">and</span> <span style="color: #33cccc;"><a href="http://www.loopknittingshop.com/c/702/Isager"><span style="color: #33cccc;">Isager Single Patterns </span></a></span></p>

Exquisie and unusual yarns from small mills in Japan in bright gorgeous colours.<br />These yarns are beautiful on their own or used held doubled with another yarn or to combine with another in alternate knitting. <br />Very special silks and mohairs.

Jade Sapphire Exotic Fibres presents 100% Mongolian cashmere in an array of gorgeous hand-dyed colorways, solid colors, natural, creamy white, and black. We have taken cashmere out of the closet, removed the string of pearls, freed it from the twin set, and brought it to the knitters of the 21st century.
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Most lovely Shetland yarn. Loop has over 100 colours.

A 2 Ply Jumper yarn that knits up like 4 Ply. This yarn is traditionally used for Fairisle knitting.The colour range allows immense potential to play with colour.

Spun and dyed in the Shetland Isles.

Jamieson's of Shetland

Gorgeous hand dyed yarn from upstate New York. Loop is so happy to have a limited amount of Jill's Mohonk yarn.

Jill Draper Makes Stuff

The yarns we stock at loop are handspun and dyed and made with gorgeous trim; in the Knit Collage studio bits of ribbons, sequins, flower appliques, and sparkly tinsel are handspun into brightly coloured wool and mohair fibres to create their one-off yarns.<br /><span style="line-height: 1.2;"><br />All of the Knit Collage dyeing, carding and spinning takes place in Punjab, India.  When the business first started in 2010, we spent countless hours teaching uneducated women how to craft the yarn designs on traditional spinning wheels. We now happily employ a total 15 women who we rely on for all aspects of the business. Not all of those women are spinners. We also employ ladies who soley card fiber, crochet tiny flowers, embroider sparkly paisleys, organize trims or check each skein for quality. The list goes on! Truly each yarn is specially handcrafted with love and care. </span>
<p> <span style="line-height: 1.2;">Through our tiny operation, we hope to create beautiful yarns that inspire and nurture your creative spirit. </span></p>

Knit Collage Handmade Yarn

Koigu Yarns are finely spun merino wools that are hand-painted in small batches and are simply exquisite. <br /><br />- See also the <a class="text" href="http://www.loopknitlounge.com/2012/10/simple-ripple-scarf/">FREE Ripple pattern PDF available on the Loop blog</a> that uses 2-4 skeins of Koigu<br /><br />

Kremke Soul Wool

<p><strong>Our delivery from La Bien Aimee has just arrived this December! <br />We have received Cashmerino, Merino Singles, Merino DK, Tough Sock and Mohair Silk. It's a beautiful yarn delivery which includes three new colours!<br /><br /></strong>Hand-dyed in small batches in the heart of Paris, Loop is the London stockist for La Bien Aimée!<br /><br />We are proud to be a La Bien Aimee Flagship shop.<br />We stock the Merino Singles in over 45 stunning hand-dyed colours both speckled and semi-solids in a palette that works together beautifully.<br />We also have mini skeins of the Merino Singles as well as the beautiful Mohair Silk, Kumo, Cashmerino, Tough Sock and Merino DK!</p>
<p>La Bien Aimée yarns take color beautifully with an incredible depth of colour and has a crisp stitch definition. <br />In subtle speckles and semi-solid colours that compliement each other, it's great fun putting colour combinations together to create a gorgeous palette.</p>

We love Lace knitting at Loop and there are many samples of stunning shawls around the shop for inspiration. Loop has a huge selection of Lace weight yarns from the simplest to most beautiful hand-dyes.

Lace Weight Yarns

Loop has a huge range of Lang Jawoll sock yarn which are 50g each and come with a clever little cone of nylon in the centre for holding doubled with your yarn when you are knitting the heel of your socks.<br />You will need 2 for a pair of socks.

<p><span>Lichen and Lace yarns are hand-dyed by Megan Ingman.<br />Everything about her yarn is exquisite- from the base and the dyeing of these amazing colours to her gorgous stitched labels. <br />Loop is thrilled to be the UK stockist for her stunning yarns.<br /><br />'My dream is to bring hand dyed yarn inspired by the quiet beauty of nature to knitters everywhere'.<br />Megan lives and works in New Brunswick, Canada. <br /><br /></span></p>

Lichen and Lace

<strong><strong>Life in the Long Grass<br /><br />Loop is thrilled to welcome Life in the Long Grass to our shop. <br />Hand-dyed in Ireland. <br /><br /></strong></strong>
<p>We are an Irish artisan hand dyed yarn and art studio in the countryside in Ireland. I am a keen knitter and was taught to knit and crochet by my Mum and our crafty neighbour Mrs Ryan. I love working with natural fibres and incorporate them in our home and what we wear as much as possible.</p>
<p>We worked as a graphic designer (Caroline) and architect (Jonny) in London and Spain before moving back to Ireland and living in the countryside – from there it was a natural transition to take our love of colour, art and design and apply it to our love of yarn.</p>
<p><strong>Life in the Long Grass?</strong></p>
<p>Our name represents the natural life of the wool that we dye; wonderful sheep braving the elements and a way of life where taking the time to make something and enjoying the process is as important as the wool itself. We are crazy about texture and rustic living and are inspired by our surroundings in the countryside, you will spot this in our main body of colourways.</p>

Life in the Long Grass

<p>Gorgeous hand-plied cashmere yarn kits.<br /><br />Playing with color combinations, creating knit kits and partnering them with playful patterns just makes us happy.  We think they will make you happy too.<br />Loop is thriled to stock their wonderful and pretty Sportweight Fun Size Bundles as well as the Menage a Trois 3 bundle kits.<br />They make the most perfect gift for yourself or another knitter!<br /><br />Sadly, for various reasons, Lux Adorna Knits will be stopping their yarn production. <br />We will be getting one last small order of the Fun Size Bundles from Heidi and then that is the final stock. We are sad to see them go.</p>

Enthused with a love of painting and influenced by the rich history of art in textiles, madelinetosh seeks to create a colour palette guided by the subtle nuances and layered depth of colours found in the natural world. Loop stocks 8 bases of madelinetosh and over 100 colours in Tosh Merino Light. <br /><br />

Loop stocks Malabrigo Worsted yarns.
"If the colours lure knitters to Malabrigo, the soft fibres reel them in. Malabrigo uses extremely soft Merino fibres for most of its yarns. The fibres are spun loosely enough to keep a marvellous halo and decadent softness that really does feel like you're knitting with butter."
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That says it all really - we went crazy at loop for their yarns after feeling how soft they were and seeing the amazing range of brilliant colours. Enjoy!<br><br>
- <a href="http://www.loopknittingshop.com/category/425/Malabrigo" class="text">See also Malabrigo pattern books</a><br>

Loop stocks a lot of different mohair yarns that include hand-dyed yarns from artisan dyers and blended with silks as well as high quality mohair and silk blends from Habu, Isager, Ito and Shibui.<br />From the Angora Goat, mohair is b<span>oth durable and resilient and notable for its high luster and sheen. Blended with silk fibres it can be incredible.</span>

<p><span><span>Natural, Botanical Dyes - on darling yarns and pure ethically sourced wool. Wales.<br /><br /></span>Loop is incredibly excited and proud to be stocking Moel View yarns.<br /><br />Overlooking 'Moel Famau' - the tallest peak of the Clwydian range in North Wales, Paula uses only the finest yarns and gently hand dyes <span>each skein with thought and care, using natural botanical ingredients to create colours that truly reflect the natural landscape and changing seasons.</span></span><br /><br />"..I always use natural dyes, mostly extracted from plants, roots and barks, some of which have been found and foraged from the kitchen, my garden, the hills, the fields...</p>
<p>Natural dyes captivate, they produce the most cohesive, beautiful colour. They are naturally variable and this is what makes the results so desirable-the skein you buy will be <em>completely </em>unique to the specific dyestuff, when it was harvested and how it was applied. Natural colours age with charm.</p>
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Mondo Fil is a great Japanese yarn company based in Kyoto.<br />We love their quirky textured yarns which are wonderful for all sorts of knitting embellishing and perfect for weaving or adding a touch to crochet or sewing. <br />They make us smile in the shop and inspire us with design ideas whenever there is a delivery!

Loop stocks British company Mrs Moon's 'Plump' and their new 'Swaddle' yarn. <br />In a beautiful fresh palette of pretty and bright colours with great pattern support. Plump is a great super chunky yarn with very good yardage and Swaddle is the most perfect baby knitting yarn. <br />Loop also stocks their ready-made poms poms and patterns for Knit & Crochet.

<div class="story-section"><strong>Loop is incredibly proud to be the UK stockist of mYak yarns.</strong><br />Their yarns are spun from 100% natural fibers, hand collected by their nomadic partners on the Tibetan Plateau and spun by the expert craftsmen of the finest woolen mills in Italy. <br />mYak was born of more than twenty years living and working with the nomadic herders of the Tibetan Plateau. Together we’re building more than a business. We’re building a future for one of the world’s most ancient ways of life.<br /><br /></div>
<div class="story-section"><strong>Ethicaly sourced.</strong><br />We believe in responsibility, traceability and sustainability. We source our wool directly from nomadic Tibetan herders, contributing to the well-being of the local community. Our fiber is hand-combed from the undercoat of baby yaks and cashmere goats with no harm to the animal.<br />We 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. Our activities are equally imbued with care for people, animals and the environment as well as for the social and ethical values that characterize our entire chain.<br /><strong><br />Uniquely Soft</strong><br />Our yarns are spun from the finest fibers from the soft undercoats of baby yaks and cashmere goats raised in the high pastures of the Tibetan Plateau. Warmer than lambswool and as fine as cashmere.<br /><br /><strong>Naturally Strong</strong><br />Yak wool is one of the world’s strongest natural fibers, but spinning such fine fiber requires remarkable skill. Our full range of yarns are spun by the expert craftsmen of Italy’s finest mills<br /><br />They are gorgeous yarns with wonderful pattern support by designers that we love.</div>

Yarns dyed with natural materials. We especially love these yarns at Loop.

Naturally Dyed Yarns

All yarn from Old Maiden Aunt has been handpainted in Scotland.<br />The base that Loop stocks is exclusive to Loop.<br /><br /> For the most part, the <a class="text" href="http://www.loopknittingshop.com/category/220/Sportweight_yarns">sportweight yarns</a> are dyed either as single, one-off skeins, or in small batches of 2-3 skeins per colourway. Lilith says...<br /><br /> "I decided to make the new yarn collection in the same way that i’d make a mixtape for a friend – based around songs that I love & that I think everyone else should know about. Each colourway is inspired by a lyric from one of my favourite songs - I've tried to capture in colour what I hear in the words & music that I love. Each colourway also has tones in common with many of the other colourways in the collection, so that they work together the same way a good mixtape should."<br /><br />

Old Maiden Aunt

Organic yarns at Loop include Blue Sky Fibers cotton, Quince & Co Sparrow and BC Garn Alba, Semilla in all of its' weights from Lace to chunky Aran and Dandelion Rosy Sport. <br />We also have Rico Linea Botanica and small amounts of Wool Trip from Knitbot as well as all of the mYak yarns and more!

Dyed in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. This yarn exhibits all the finest qualities of angora. Its versatility and quality is demonstrated by its suitability for use in accessories, such as socks and gloves, as well as exclusive designer knitwear. <br />Available in 31 superb shades, seven of which are exclusive to Loop, this beautiful yarn demonstrates a delightful lustre when dyed, augmenting the natural beauty of the yarn.

<p dir="ltr"><span>Loop was smitten with <em>Plant Dyed By Mehlsen</em> as soon as we started seeing images of the beautiful little bundles. When we held the dyed threads in our hands it just confirmed our love for them.<br /><br />Mette has a lifelong passion for textiles and textile crafts. Her mother taught her to knit before she learned to read and write. Thus, knitting, embroidery and crocheting has always been in her life.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>Mette has a degree in Textile Design, Handcraft and Communications and works with cultural history at museums in Denmark. There, she often works with historical materials and textiles that inspire her.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>"My passion for dyeing with plants started after I worked with textiles from 1800, which were plant dyed.  In this way, I began plant dyeing my own yarn. I discovered the endless possibilities of the craft and a new world opened to me."</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span><em>Plant Dyed By Mehlsen</em> is mostly dyed with plants handpicked in nature in the western part of Jutland, Denmark. Plant dyed yarn is magical in the sense that largely all colours and nuances match each other – it gives new possibilities to compose and the creativity can flourish.</span></p>
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Plant Dyed by Mehlsen

Loop is completely over the moon and honoured that The Plucky Knitter are dyeing their custom milled yarns for us!<br />A long-held dream of Susan's to have their exquisite yarns at Loop, we have their Primo Fingering and Bello Worsted not only in some of their lush colour staples but with six bespoke exclusive colourways that were developed just for Loop! Heaven indeed. <br /><br /><span>The Plucky Knitter (aka the talented Sarah Dimond) have a small dyeing studio in Michigan and a very limited supply of excellent yarn bases, so her gorgeous yarns are not widely available. This makes it even more incredible to us that she is dyeing some of her special yarns for us.</span><br />
<p>The Plucky Knitter, a family-run business dedicated to creating hand-dyed yarns in unique, one-of-a-kind artisan colors on custom luxury bases.</p>
<p>Plucky began in 2007 because Sarah and Hayley, two lovely sisters, could not find colors in the marketplace that captured their personal vision for beautiful hues and spectrums yet undiscovered. Thus began their journey as indie dyers and their desire to create a truly unique product.</p>
<p>"Color is only part of the story. I discovered for color to truly sing, it must be placed on superior yarn. This led to my extensive search for the perfect luxury fibers that allowed for the ultimate combination of yarn and colorways.</p>
<p>Our yarns are custom milled to my specifications and are available only to Plucky. In a mass produced world, Plucky yarns are exclusive and unique. They are then hand-dyed in the barn studio in Michigan."</p>
<p>It is a true privilage to have Plucky yarns at Loop, one of a very few shops in the world to have their special beauty.</p>
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Handdyed by independent yarn dyer Layla Qing.<br /><span>Layla is from the traditional city of Beijing. There she grew up surrounded by traditional folk crafts. Now living in London, she loves  British culture and is a passionate crafter. <br />Qing Fibre started in 2016. Since then her passion for dyeing yarn and combining unusual colours has led to her incredible palette. <br />From the most vibrant hues to the darkest shades, she hopes to inspire people with her love of colour.</span><br />All Qing Fibre blends are ethically sourced from Peru and then hand dyed in London in her incredibly vibrant and happy colours.<br />Loop is proud to stock the 100% Merino Singles from Layla as well as the yummy Super Soft DK.<br />What a colour rush!

Loop is the European flagship shop for Quince & co yarns. We're so proud to stock their beautiful yarns<br /><br /><span>Quince & Co. was launched in 2010 by </span>Pam Allen<span><span> in partnership with a historic mill in Maine.<br />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. With those yarns they designed a line of modern knitting patterns for sweaters and accessories lovely in their simplicity, which echoed the “thoughtful essentials” nature of the yarn.<br /></span></span>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Quince and co are committed to sourcing and spinning their yarns locally to minimise their carbon footprint as well as manufacturing their yarns as ethically and sustainably as possible.</span></p>
<br /><br /> - <a class="text" href="http://www.loopknittingshop.com/category/322/Quince_Co" target="_blank">See also the range of Quince & co. patterns loop has in stock</a>

Wonderful yarns that are pretty and fun. Great to use on their own or mixed with a plainer yarn. Good for edgings too on blankets and shawls.

Quirky and Textured Yarns

Rico are great basic yarns with a large range of colours!<br />Most of them are also machine washable which makes them extra good for baby knitting. <br />Loop stocks the ones that are mostly natural fibres.<br /><br />

A small selection of yarns that we have put on sale while stock lasts!

Scheepjes is new to Loop and we are so glad we found them! <br />Yarn and haberdashery from The Netherlands. <br />We stock their very beautiful 'Catona' in the sweetest 25g balls which are perfect for crochet and baby projects as well as their beautiful 'Linen Soft' yarns.

Fabulous yarn from Schoppel Wolle in Germany. Fun balls of beautiful multi-coloured yarn. Nice for striping too with another solid yarn! Zauberball is great for sock knitting.

Kristi of Shalimar was lovely enough to open up to us about her yarn company, Shalimar, and her inspirations. She told us she got into hand-dyeing yarn through owning a yarn shop in the US. A horse lover, she says, “You can’t ride two ponies in one race” so she closed up shop to focus solely on Shalimar. We’re so lucky she did! One of our favourite things about Breathless is the subtle depth of the colours. Kristi calls her semi-solid colour range “Stonewash”. She explains, “Just like the color on a pair of well worn jeans begins to blend to a lighter tone, I was looking for a subtle shift in color in my yarns. This allows the yarn to reflect the light, give more depth and interest to the fabric and still show stitch patterns and design elements to their fullest. Now I design a color palette that not only works well as a whole, but appeals to a broad range of knitters/crocheters. I often hear from customers who recognize my colors as ‘Shalimar.’”

Beautiful Silk Cloud from Shibui. The colour range is stunning and has a very high silk content.

Beautiful silk yarns that are 100% silk or mixed with merino, paper, steel or mohair.<br />Colours just shimmer on silks and have an incredible depth of colour.

<span>Valentina Consalvi is the person behind Snail Yarn - her </span><span>love for colours continues to grow more and more every day.</span><br /><br /><span>Her yarns are all kettle dyed in small quantities in her small studio just outside Rome, Italy.</span><br /><br /><span>She loves highly variegated colorways, as well as subtle variegated shades, and loves stripes so much she creates a lot of tonal and semisolid colorways which can be mixed and used together to create colourful projects, and the more the pairing is unusual, the more she likes it!<br /><br />Loop is really happy to have her gradient mini sets at the shop as well as her very beautiful Merino Singles.</span>

Loop has an amazing selection of sock weight yarns from basics to incredible hand-dyes.

<span>"Spincycle Yarns is a two-woman operation established in 2004. We are the spinsters, Rachel and Kate, and we produce luxurious yarns, hand-dyed and spun into small batches of perfection. <br /><br />For eight years, we existed exclusively as a handspinnery. Lovely, cozy, intimate... and exhausting! We couldn't keep up! The search began for a micro-mill that would understand our DIY methods of dyeing and spinning; we wanted more efficiently produced yarns, but we didn't want to give up the unique look of Spincycle Yarns. <br /><br />The search ended on Camano Island, where we found an amazing mother-daughter team operating a mill that could meet all of our needs! Thanks to their meticulous spinning (and infinite patience), we've been able to develop yarns that maintain the color artistry of our original handspun product."<br /><br />Loop is thrilled to stock their beautiful yarns and kits.</span>

Spincycle Yarns

Sportweight is sightly-thinner-than-DK weight yarn and knits up to about 24-26sts to 10cm. <br><Br>
If you have pattern that calls for DK weight yarn you can usually use sportweight yarn as a substitute by playing around with your needle size to get the right gauge/tension.

Sportweight yarns

Sublime yarns <em>are</em> sublime! Great colours and <a href="http://www.loopshop.gb.com/category/144/Sublime" class="text">pattern support</a>.

Exquisite hand-dyed cotton threads from Japan. <br />Only natural plant and organic matter dyes used. <br />Beautiful for fine crochet, knit and embroidery work.

<span>We're thrilled to have a range of colours, some of them bespoke for Loop, in the wonderful Border Mill Alapaca Tweed.  It's a yarn we have loved from the minute we felt and saw it!<br />A blend of natural and hand-dyed alpaca fibre.</span><br /><span>The Border Mill Alpaca Twist is pure alpaca all grown in Britain. A small fibre spinning mill nestled in the beautiful Scottish Borders.</span>

The Border Mill for Loop

<span><span>Loop is absolutely thrilled to stock The Little Grey Sheep.<br />The only shop in the UK to have their beautiful Hampshire yarn, we couldn't be more honoured. <br /><br />"Well Manor is a small family farm on the Surrey Hampshire borders. Nestled amongst the rolling countryside the farm dates back to Tudor times. With this heritage in mind we aim to conserve our landscape, and farm as traditionally as possible preserve the environment for generations to come.  <br /><span>Our sheep are an integral part of our conservation plan, through managed grazing and reversion of agricultural land to traditional pastures. It is only by using time honoured methods, that enable us to return the landscape to its historic roots. Welcoming back a diverse flora and fauna, and following the rhythm of the seasons and mother nature, rather than intensive modern farming methods. Setting in motion the right habitats enable the return of our native birds and insects.</span><br /></span></span>
<p>With my love of textiles, it was only a matter of time before I found a way to begin producing our own unique British yarns. The wool comes from our fine wool flocks exclusively nurtured and bred for their quality fibre. The flock is managed, and sheared by Susie our awesome shepherdess, and right hand lady. Susie has always had a passion for sheep starting her own flock at the age of 10!</p>
<p>Every last fleece is hand sorted on the farm by Susie and myself to ensure that only the best quality fibres go into our yarn. A luxury product takes time to produce, and a good relationship with all the artisans involved, each as important a link in the chain as each other. The fibre is washed in Yorkshire by Matt, and worsted spun in Devon by John or woollen spun by Michael, returning to be hand dyed on the farm by me.</p>
<p>The colours of the beautiful countryside we inhabit and the coast line of my childhood Pembrokeshire home inspire me in the dye studio. Colour is an obsession for me, a never ending search for further knowledge on this vast subject pushes me on."</p>

The Little Grey Sheep

With a passion for texture and colour, The Uncommon Thread’s yarns are hand dyed in small batches in the South of England. <br />Loop stocks four bases: BFL Singles, Tough Sock, BFL Light DK and Lush Worsted. <br />They're gorgeous!

The Uncommon Thread

Hand-dyed yarn from Wales. <br />Dyed by Caerthan, we're so thrilled to have this at Loop.<br />All yarns are kettle-dyed using his own blends of single pigment dyes, yielding rich, strong colours with lots of subtle detailing inspired by Anglo-Saxon and Celtic art.<br />British Fibre. Spun and hand-dyed in UK.

<p>Twirl begins with the land, and moves from the soil to the plants and animals that live in the place.</p>
<p>Twirl encompasses stewardship, husbandry, artistic endeavor, compassion and commitment. The yarn I make takes these qualities—and through daily chores of feeding, husbandry, washing and blending, washing, dyeing and preparing—to final form.</p>
<p>The breeds of sheep I choose to be part of my family are luster longwool breeds. Known for their qualities of luster, strength and softness. Authentic to the animals that make this fiber. </p>
<p><span>About Mary (in the Napa Valley of California): <br />"I have lived for over thirty years now on this same ranch. I run cattle, sheep, goats, llamas, alpacas and all sorts of dogs to help me with my flocks. I have had a long time to observe the natural plants on this property, and have come to appreciate the floral diversity here. <br /><span>In the gardens around our home, is yet another wonderland of color. All the neighbors want to offer plant prunings and fruits they have to be part of this project. I feel like I am living in the middle of a huge and wonderful science project.<br /></span></span></p>
<p>The dyes I use that are closest to my heart are from the plants that grow here where I live. I feel that when I use these plant dyes I am fully embracing the sense of this place. It is a hidden beauty that emerges when the essence and color of these plants, which grow on this soil, are combined with the fiber that is also grown here and are of this soil."<br /><br />Terroir is a term that describes something that is fully influenced by where you are. This is truly a taste of Mary's world of Twirl.</p>

<span>With a background in biology, high fashion and business administration, Cathrin Walk has turned her hand to dyeing yarns in an array of exquisite colours . <br /><br /><span>Walk collection yarns are produced with excellent quality, sustainability and superb design in mind . Every skein is hand-dyed with love and attention.  "You can see it, feel it, knit it"</span><br /><br /></span>

Walk Collection

<strong>Hand Dyed Wollmeise Yarns at Loop is now on final sale. This is the last of the Wollmeise yarn we will have at Loop. All sales are final.</strong><br /><strong><br /></strong>

Loop is very proud to be the UK stockist for woolfolk yarns. Woolfolk  combines the highest quality wool with ethical, sustainable practices. <br />The fiber they use, Ultimate Merino® from Ovis21, doesn’t happen by chance, but by the innovative efforts of farmers to produce the very best wool fiber while being land stewards of the Patagonian Grasslands. Spun and milled in Peru. Woolfolk brings this exquisitely soft and lustrous fiber in handknitting yarns that preserves the unique attributes of this luxurious wool. <br />There is one shearing a year so the fleece, and thus the yarn, is limited. If computers had a 'touch' button, we'd get it for this as you have to feel it to believe how incredibly soft and beautiful these yarns are. <br />It's exquisite yarn.

<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Woolly Mammoth Fibre Company is a small hand dyeing and spinning studio based on the North Coast of Northern Ireland, created by Emma Robinson.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">I use breed specific, high quality, non- superwash yarns spun in the UK for dyeing. A large majority of these wools are British or rare breeds and are all dyed with natural dyes. Many of my natural dyes are foraged from my local area or home grown in the garden. Sometimes I like to use kitchen waste to dye too. My colour inspiration comes mainly from walks in the quiet Irish landscape, stories of epic adventures or sometimes old books and poetry.</span><br /><br /></p>
<p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1">A note about natural dyes: </span></strong></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Eventually, all natural dyes will fade precisely because they are not chemical dyes. This is one of the reasons we love them- they will inherit a memory and history of their own. To ensure the long life of your naturally dyed yarn/ garment, store out of sunlight when not being worn and wash with a gentle no rinse wool wash in cold - lukewarm water. Dry flat.</span></p>

Woolly Mammoth Fibre Co.

<span>The word </span><strong>Yama</strong><span> is layered with meaning from different mythologies and languages..some rather dark, but in Japanese it means “</span><strong><strong>Mountain"<br /><br /></strong></strong>
<p>Madeleine is a graphic designer turned indie yarn dyer living in Noordhoek, a laid-back coastal suburb of Cape Town (Table Mountain!) in South Africa. She draws most of her creative inspiration from her environment and is totally fascinated by “fynbos”, a unique kind of shrubland or heathland vegetation that makes up 80 per cent of the Cape Floral Kingdom.</p>
<p>Madeleine dyes small batches of unique yet very wearable colourways including semi-solids with lots of depth as well as richly layered variegated colours. Yarn is dyed, washed and rinsed using harvested rain water. <br /><br />We are honored to be able to bring these gorgeous skeins of very special hand-dyed yarn to you. </p>
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We love Viola!<br /><br />Loop stocks eleven hand-dyed colours, including 'Speckled Mist' - a special exclusive colour that is a gorgeous melange of hues and only available at Loop!<br />We are very honoured that Emily supplies us with her exquisitely dyed yarns, one of the very few places where you can see Viola Yarns in person.

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