YUMMY YARNS!

Introducing our new Eco Haberdashery

We have been busy bees this summer creating a new Eco Haberdashery.

It now has its very own wall where you can choose from an artists palette of yummy yarns, discover beautiful vintage buttons, pick up vintage knitting patterns and flick through our books and much more.....

The haberdashery is like a sweet shop when it comes to discovering new knitting, crochet&embroidery yarns.

Eco Knitting, Crochet & Embroidery yarns
*Organic Hemp: from Bulgaria
*Silk with natural dyes
*Organic Colourgrown cotton
*Rare breed Yarns made in the UK
*Organic wool with natural dyes
*Recycled sari silk
*Recycled sarong yarns from Indonesian women's co-operatives
*Eco Annie recycled London textile yarn
*Fine Linen
*vintage sewing yarns

We have a range of tools:
*Needles, crochet hooks and rug making tools
*Recycled, vintage, bamboo, steel, Bakelite and primitive plastics

We have baskets full of beautiful buttons to rifle through:

Buttons:
*Rematched vintage sets
*Vintage buttons on original cards
*Antique mother of pearl and glass buttons
*Mixed sets for embroidery projects
*Antique buttons:cellulose, Bakelite,keratin and primitive plastics
*Hand made painted buttons

We stock a wide selection of natural dyes in powder form for easy use, and a small stock of the mordant, alum to intensify colour and aid adherence of the colour to the fibre.

We have a small selection of key books on knitting, textile techniques, environmental design, as well as current and back copies of the fabulous textile magazine SELVEDGE and finally a vast archive of knitting patterns, mainly 70s and 80s to inspire!!

Come and discover our dazzling Haberdashery wall for yourselves......