2025 Vendors
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Annfield Angora
We make Mohair yarn, but not the type you’re used to. Annfield Farm is located in Fife where we raise a no-kill flock of Angora goats (the biggest flock in Scotland and 3rd biggest in the UK!). After their biannual hair cut the mohair fibre is expertly transformed into yarn, which then comes back home to get dyed in our kitchen using only British-made dyes. We keep everything as local as we can and we’ve created our own very small network of smallholders and farmers we buy from.
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Ballyhoura Fibres
Founded in 2021, Ballyhoura Fibres offers small batch superwash and non-superwash hand-dyed yarn from County Limerick, Ireland. Cierra started Ballyhoura Fibres out of curiosity for the hand-dyeing process and she uses it as a way to experiment with colour. Ballyhoura Fibres brings together the perfect canvas for Cierra's love of fibre arts and the natural world as well as her travels.
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Beyond Measure
Join Beyond Measure as we celebrate 10 years in business in 2025! A truly unique little shop for textile lovers, all the goods are hand-picked by Grace, for quality, beauty, and longevity – future treasures to be passed on from one generation to the next. Beautiful textile supplies, books, wooden tools and gifts can all be found here. Many of the items are made for us by small suppliers and craft makers in the UK and EU – natural materials are used wherever possible. Whether you knit, crochet, embroider, or mend, we have something that will take your fancy – we promise!
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Birlinn Yarn Company
The Birlinn Yarn Company, based on the Isle of Berneray, produce organically dyed, limited edition yarn in a range of natural blends and Hebridean colours.
All our fleece is sourced from our own flock of Hebridean sheep and from sheep bred on crofts in the Outer Hebrides.
Our bespoke knitting patterns are both my own designs and those of other international knitwear designers across sweaters, accessories and home ware. We also sell Harris Tweed bags, haberdashery and Laine knitting books.
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Black Isle Yarns & Wildwood Stitches
Based in the Scottish Highlands, Julie has built Black Isle Yarns on a passion for truly local wool. She selects local fleeces which are spun at British mills and then dyes each skein using natural dyes. The result is lively, sheepy yarns – that glow with the natural beauty of the Scottish Highlands. Julie hopes that when working with her yarns fibre lovers will feel a sense of the beautiful landscape which grows and shapes them.
Harriet of Wildwood Stitches uses Harris Tweed and whimsical printed cotton fabric to create beautiful, durable project bags inspired by nature and the Scottish Highlands.
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Botanical Yarns
Botanical Yarn is a hand-dyed yarn studio based in rural Yorkshire. Sophie, the owner of the company, dyes yarn inspired by all things botanical. Her mum is a florist and creates beautiful arrangements that inspire Sophie to create new colourways. Sophie is passionate about all crafts, and is encouraging to makers to learn new skills and experiment with colour. Sophie loves putting together kits and bundles for the latest patterns.
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Cookston Crafts
Claire established Cookston Crafts in 2015 from her workshop space in rural Aberdeenshire. Claire produces luxury hand dyed yarn, often influenced by the countryside around her. Community is at the heart of Cookston Crafts, with regular workshops, craft events, open days and yarn festivals. Claire says, "I pride myself on attention to detail and giving supportive advice, ensuring my special yarns are exactly what my customer needs to elevate their own crafting experience and I'm extremely proud of the hundreds of positive customer reviews on the website.”
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Di Gilpin Knitwear
We are a hand knitting design studio based in Fife who produce hand knitting yarns made in Scotland. The company is now over 40 years old! We design our own patterns and have regular workshops and retreats throughout the year. We are Di and Sheila, co-authors of the Gansey Knitting Sourcebook and judges on the upcoming Game of Wool!
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Garthenor Organic
Garthenor say their mission is simple: to make only 100% certified organic yarn without compromise, ever.
Totally traceable, completely climate positive and outstandingly organic.
They were the first company in the world to make yarn that was certified organic from sheep to shelf, and they’ve never stopped being planet-loving trailblazers.
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Ginger Twist Studio
Jess will be bringing a special selection from her Edinburgh shop, featuring delicious yarns, patterns books and haberdashery. Her own Ginger’s Hand-Dyed yarn will be a special feature in a range of yarn weights and trademark bejewelled colours.
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Herbarium Dyeworks
A dyer with many years of experience, Debbie has returned to the woolly world to follow her passion for natural dyeing. Her yarns, fabric bundles and silk threads offer a delightful palette of muted semi-solids and tonal colourways which harmonise beautifully together. As Herbarium Dyeworks is focused on using mainly plants, she likes to think of it as a modern-day classification system of colour, preserving the hues yielded by so many different specimens. Debbie hopes that she'll be able to bring some of that colour joy into your own projects.
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Iolair Yarn
Woolly Good co-organiser Solveigh will have her beautiful blends at the festival. All of Iolair Yarn is dyed in small batches, taking particular care during the whole dyeing process to ensure the yarn keeps its lustrous softness. All fibres are carefully sourced, non-superwash and the Merino is mulesing free.
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Jamieson's of Shetland
Jamieson's is a unique family business from Shetland, running the only spinning mill in the isles. Pure locally grown Shetland breed wool is transformed into hundreds of colours in 5 different weights of yarn, including the well-known Spindrift which is perfect for Fair Isle projects. The team will be bringing a wide range of yarns, along with patterns and notions.
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Jenerates by Jen Hogg
Unique tools and notions for sewing and yarn crafts, by a maker for makers, designed and made in Scotland… Jen Hogg is bringing her range of unique crafting tools, from the Jenerates Sewing Ruler, to the Silicon Hemmer, Seam Circles, Pattern Tracker and fantastic notions like stitch markers and tags. Jen designed our 2024 tags and if you’re lucky you’ll see some more special Jenerates x WG merch at the festival!
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The Journal of Scottish Yarns
Woolly Good co-organiser Susan will be here with her beautiful publication, which focuses on the community, history, culture and creativity of textiles in Scotland. Articles tell the stories of fibres and artisans, whilst design projects invite makers to explore their creativity.
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Kettle Yarn Co
Timeless yarns – made to last…
Nestled on the south coast of England, Kettle Yarn Co. is a one-woman business aiming to support British sheep farmers while safeguarding animals and the environment. Helping to make the wool industry sustainable for future generations, all luxury yarns are handcrafted in small batches in the UK.
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Langsood Yarn
Langsoond Yarn was started in 2016 by Donna Smith when she wanted to do something with the fleeces of Shetland sheep on the family croft. The yarn is supplemented with Shetland wool from the flocks of friends and neighbours and is available in a range of undyed colours and naturally dyed shades dyed by Donna in her small home studio. She has also designed a range of knitting patterns to compliment the yarn.
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LoveLiveGiveArt
Richa is a visual artist working with textiles, drawing and painting. Her never ending enchantment with nature and wildflowers specifically is evident in her embroidery patterns and overall art practice theme. Richa is bringing project bags, DIY embroidery kits and mini embroidery patch kits that can be used to embroider on jumpers, ready to buy hand embroidered project bags and upcycled wool jumpers with wool embroidery.
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Lynsey Walters
Lynsey’s work is inspired by collections of old toys, knick-knack and Bakelite jewellery. It has a nostalgic notion but is also design-led, bright, bold, fun and easy to wear. Lynsey loves using a biodegradable sustainable material in her work, trying to keep things even more sustainable by sourcing a lot of wool felt as off-cuts and end of bolts. Her work combines handmade felt that she makes herself and industrial wool felt sourced from another local maker – all the felt is beautiful quality merino wool. Everything is handmade by Lynsey in her studio in Fife Scotland. This is also Lynsey’s 25th year in business making and selling her own designs!
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Mamie and Florrie
Mamie and Florrie is a hand-dyed yarn studio based in the Peak District and founded by Amy. Amy shares her love of colour, textiles and storytelling in the form of yarn. Amy is passionate about offering quality fibres and unusual textures. From boucle and slub yarns which change colour and texture in every twist, UK-milled John Arbon yarn to alpaca, mohair and sock yarn too. Amy loves to show samples to inspire and sells accessories to make projects come alive. Mamie and Florrie is also a Geo-Metry DK stockist selling luxury yarn holders and accessories handcrafted in Copenhagen.
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Midwinter Yarns
Passionate suppliers of hand-dyed and natural fibre yarns, project bags and more, Estelle of Midwinter Yarns will be returning with any remaining stock of Black and Blue, her hand-dyed Shetland yarns and the ever popular Lithuanian linen. As well as project bags hand-made from exciting vintage and sustainably sourced fabrics, Estelle will be showcasing new Fair Isle inspired embroidery kits for a new way to celebrate a love of knitting.
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Moorit Magazine
Woolly Good co-organiser Alyson will be attending with her luxe publication, which specialises in design and articles for crocheters. Focusing on wearable, modern garments and accessories made in natural fibres, Moorit is a high-end craft magazine with true indie spirit.
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Nervus Fibre
Nervus Fibre is a small hand-dyed yarn business based in Glasgow.
Charlotte takes inspiration from the natural world, and also the landscapes and characters in the books she reads. Charlotte is known for her love of soft quiet colourways and beautifully tactile yarns, perfect for quieting busy brains and making beautiful wearable garments.
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Ripples Crafts Yarn
Helen lives and works in Clachtoll, Scottish Highlands, dyeing yarns. Her colour choices and combinations are influenced by the landscape surrounding the workshop. She sells online, at events around the UK and directly from her ‘Wool Shed’, enjoying welcoming visitors from all over the world to Ripples Crafts Dye Shed. Helen offers a range of yarn bases and weights, and is known for her intense shades. She has been dyeing yarn for 16 years, loves her work and the creativity and interactions it allows.
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Riverknits
RiverKnits is all about hand-dyed colour, combining the traditional material of wool with original dyeing techniques to create exciting new ways of making. We have a strong focus on sustainable sourcing and natural fibres. All RiverKnits yarn is grown, spun, and dyed in Britain so that you can make with a clear conscience.
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Soft Accents
Soft Accents UK produces vibrant handmade totes, project bags and pouches inspired by colourful African and contemporary fabrics, for knitters, crocheters and individuals who enjoy something unique yet functional. Each piece is designed, cut and stitched from start to finish, in Birmingham, England. Vibrant, colourful and beautifully patterned fabrics, in particular, African Wax Prints, provide the inspiration for all the bags, pouches and purses. Soft Accents UK believes in producing durable well-crafted products for individuals who enjoy something unique yet useful for themselves or to give as gifts.
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Susan Crawford Vintage
We are a small, family-run business based in the Lake District, from where we run our yarn, design and publishing company. Susan's passions for knitting, wool and vintage fashion paired with a lack of patterns to fit Susan's shape began a career recreating and rewriting vintage patterns and creating designs with a vintage aesthetic to suit all shapes and sizes. Susan designs with yarn ranges using British breed sheep spun in UK mills then hand-dyed by Susan's daughter at our Lake District studio. Supporting the historic British yarn industry, with sustainable, ethical, inclusive, slow fashion is at the core of a business which puts its heart and soul into everything we create.
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Third Vault Yarns
Third Vault Yarns is your geeky yarn companion, dyeing yarn that takes inspiration from Science Fiction and Fantasy themes. Connecting Lola's love of geeky things with rich and moody colours, fun knitting patterns, accessories and hand dyed project bags.
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TJFrog
Tania of TJFrog is a Dorset Button designer, maker, hand knitter, teacher & podcaster. Born out of her love of Dorset Buttons, a heritage craft from the county in which she was brought up in, the TJFrog creative business is a collection of beautiful products derived from the Dorset Button theme or linked to Scotland where Tania now lives. This includes Dorset Button kits, notions, jewellery, stationery, project bags made with commissioned uniqued Dorset Button fabric and the TJFrog Shorelines & Strata wool brand.
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Toft
TOFT is a British craft company based in rural Warwickshire and home of the Edward's Menagerie and Alexandra's Garden collections of crochet animals, vegetables and flowers by Kerry Lord. Bringing traditional crafts and contemporary designs together using luxury materials, we specialise in beginner knit and crochet kits and have a wide range of pattern books and British wool.
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Uist Wool
Dana of Uist Wool will be bringing these special natural undyed yarns and wool products produced at their own mill and wool centre in the Outer Hebrides. This community based, not-for-profit team supports crofters, makers and creators working with the land to preserve its heritage.
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Wee County Yarns
Based in Central Scotland WCY sources Scottish-spun pure wool yarns and create a wide range of colourful knit and crochet patterns for them. Their Kinross lambswool feels fabulous and the Miniballs come in over 100 colours. Clare is passionate about encouraging crafters to expand their skill range and is always happy to take time to explain techniques and advise on project choices.
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The Woolchemist
Roni, the hands and heart behind The Woolchemist is a small batch artisan dyer based in Central Scotland. She specialises in extra fine merino and merino blend yarns suitable for sensitive skin. The inspiration for her magical colours stems from her excessive reading, her love of folklore and mythology, and of the arts and nature. Roni’s colours always tell a story and will help elevate your projects to the next level. Community is very important to Roni, her Facebook Group “WoolChemistry” has over 400 members and is a lovely and inclusive, supportive community of all fibre crafts.
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Woollenflower
Woollenflower is a Glasgow-based natural dye and textile studio with a focus on producing yarn and threads for craftspeople. Woollenflower yarns are made from high-quality natural fibres, such as local wool, alpaca, linen and kid mohair, and are dyed with locally-harvested plants and sustainably-sourced plant material and dye extracts using traditional immersion-dyeing techniques. Also produced in the studio are pouches made from worn-out Harris Tweed jackets, vintage lengths or industry waste, originally intended as knitting tool pouches but functioning beautifully to store any treasures you might like to carry.
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Woolly Originals
Established in Edinburgh in 2015, Woolly Originals creates bags for crafters and artists to use for their projects and for their tools. The outer fabric is machine knit using undyed and plant-dyed yarns from Shetland, Yorkshire and Finland. The bag designs all tell a story, generally inspired by nature or environmental issues.
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Yarn Tings
YarnTings is where colour comes to play with luxury yarns and fibres creating a feast for the senses. Founded by multidisciplinary artist Charmaine Wombwell, her selection of hand dyed, natural fibre bases, stunningly squishy art batts and fun textured hand spun yarns make for a bold, beautiful and boujie crafting experience.
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Zakami Yarns
Woolly Good co-organisers Melinda and Gergely will be bringing their beloved Zakami Yarns to the festival. They specialise in small-batch hand-dyed yarn here in Edinburgh, with a focus on building community, sustainability and care for the natural world.