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We have all heard of slow food, but what is "slow clothing" and what does it have to do with knitting? Just as the slow food movement encourages people to think about where their food comes from, how it is grown and cooked and how what they eat impacts on their health, their community and the environment, the 'slow clothes' movement is a counter-movement against the ever increasing speed with which we consume clothing.  Over the last 20 years, the cost of clothing has come down substantially. Clothes are now a throw-away item. And the speed with which we are...

Now available: KnitPro needle set in natural wood. The Set includes: Zip-up pouch with pockets for cables and needle tips, 8 sets of needle tips: 4 / 4,5 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 /10 mm, 4 cables of 60mm / 80mm / 100mm / 120mm length, 8 end plastic caps, 4 tightening allen keys. Once you have worked with KnitPro needles, you will never want to work with cheap needles again. You will find that even when working with challenging yarns, the KnitPros will do the job where lower end plastic and metal needles have difficulties.  The...

We are getting ready for summer - and we have given our website a summer make-over!  Brand new home page, improved search functions and better sorting options, all while adding more beautiful yarns at the same great prices!  As part of the make-over, we have moved some blog posts from the old 'news' section to our new 'Tips & Tricks' section.  So if you are looking for a particular blog entry on, say, felting, or dealing with different batch numbers, or yarn weight, please have a look under our new 'Tips & Tricks' section and you will now find them there.

This is an amazing find: A 3000 year old ball of yarn was found amongst the remnants of a Bronze Age village at an archeological site near Cambridge in England. The Guardian Newspaper first reported on the discovery of the site in January this year in an article that describes the site as "Britain's Pompeii". The ball of yarn is not the only textile that researchers were able to recover, and it will be very exciting to find out more about how yarn such as this was spun and used 3000 years ago. If you would like to learn more about the Must Farm discoveries,...

Tune in to ABC online if you haven't heard this recent episode of the Science Show.  The Science Show program broadcast on Saturday 16 July 2016 featured the amazing story of twin sisters Margaret and Christine Wertheim. A few years ago, they started working on a crochet of a single coral. The project evolved, was picked up by various museums around the world and is now part of a world-wide project that engages communities and draws attention to the threats to reefs from climate change.  Margaret Wertheim is a scientist and science writer, and she uses crochet as a way to bring complex...