BalticKnits
When Iveta first visited Scotland ten years ago she was so captivated by its nature, heritage, and people that she had a Celtic pattern tattooed on her leg. She had no idea then that one day she would move to Scotland, promote the Latvian tradition of knitted mittens, and adapt historical patterns for modern knitters, dedicating them to the landscapes of Scotland, making a small contribution to both knitting cultures. At the Scottish Wool Producers Showcase she will have a beautiful selection of traditional Latvian mittens to purchase, and designs created as tributes to Scotland.
The Birlinn Yarn Company
The Birlinn Yarn Company produce island sourced, organically dyed, limited edition yarn from the Isle of Berneray in the Outer Hebrides, in a range of natural blends and Hebridean colours. While our flock of pedigree Hebridean sheep are the corner stone of our yarn production, we also source Hebridean and Cheviot fleece from neighbouring island crofts.
Our knitting patterns are bespoke to Birlinn Yarn and are both my own designs and those of other international knitwear designers across sweaters, accessories and home wares.
Burmieston
Burmieston is an eco and climate friendly holiday let and retreat space within a small-holding in Perthshire. Their precious small batch rare breed wool comes from their own flock of Jacob sheep.
Burnfoot Wool
Burnfoot Wool care for a flock of 1500 South Country Cheviot x New Zealand Romney sheep on their family hill farm near Langholm in Dumfries & Galloway. In 2022 they decided to try and add value to a great natural resource that’s market return was below the cost of production, and are now producing 4ply, Double Knit and Aran weight yarn as well as their beautiful lambswool blankets. Living so close to a mill town it is important to them to use local businesses wherever possible, and they are fortunate to have FTS Dyers and Drove Weavers in Langholm. Burnfoot Wool are proud to produce natural, sustainable products from the rolling hills of the Scottish Borders.
Caithness Yarns
Caithness Yarns offer high quality, often unique yarns from High welfare flocks up in the “True” North of Scotland (including shepherd Graeme’s own.) Their range has a series of yarns from the old fashioned style of hill sheep here in Caithness and Sutherland, these demonstrate the greatness of the wool you can get if you breed for it and focus relentlessly on sheep health and welfare. The other strand to Caithness Yarns are their “Rare Breed” yarns.
Starting with their own flock of Castlemilk Moorit sheepies, they offer one-off, unique small batch yarns mostly undyed and unbleached. As a matter of good ethical business practice Caithness Yarns use a concept for sourcing the fleece that makes their yarns what they call “Living Value.” This means they set a respectful value for fleece when they buy it that better reflects the hard work and care that good farmers and crofters lavish on their stock.
Ceri M Creations
Ceri began her pottery journey in March 2021 and soon after stopped pursing her university degree in architecture to found her own studio, based in Perth, where she teaches as well as creates.
Culross Yarn
Culross Yarn has evolved as a small family venture because of our love for wool, colour, growing and making. Through spinning, knitting, and dyeing the fleece from our small flock of sheep we have created a start to finish cottage industry producing plant dyed yarn from our own sheep.
Rachel is a designer who machine knits the yarn into beautiful items for wearing and for the home. Veronica grows the dye plants, dyes the yarn, and makes up the knitting kits using Rachel’s patterns.
This is our way of promoting and sharing the wonderful qualities of wool and by using the remarkable colours of plant dyes we play a part in perpetuating heritage skills and the use of natural dye materials.
Dystopic Fibre
Jon is the dyer behind Dystopic Fibre, based in Glasgow, Scotland. Dystopic Fibre references a wide range of mushroom species in it’s colourways, paired often with apocalyptic-themed narratives from pop culture. Jon has been working on diversifying his offering of yarn bases this past year and it’s his selection of British yarn bases that he will be bringing to the Showcase.
Eleanor Shadow
Leonor is the creative force behind Eleanor Shadow. Her fibre journey started in 2013 and has culminated with wanting to share her love of colour and wool with the world. She is passionate about creating the most fun hand dyed yarns and art batts, spinning and sewing without harming our planet, and it’s her British base fibre she’ll be bringing to the Scottish Wool Producers Showcase this March.
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Highland Magic Fibre Arts
Highland Magic Fibre Arts is my one-woman fibre studio rooted deeply in Scottish provenance, where every stage of the journey (growing, clipping, sorting, blending, spinning, and natural dyeing) happens with care here in the Highlands. Drawing on my background in fine art, I approach each batch with an eye for subtle detail and thoughtful craftsmanship, creating unique, luxurious homespun yarns that honour the character of the fleece and the landscape it comes from. My fibres are designed to be beautiful, functional, and versatile, offering makers of all kinds—knitters, crocheters, and weavers—a truly special material to work with.
Highland Wool
Fresh from delivering her presentation ‘Building A Sustainable Future….. With Wool’ at The Scottish Yarn Festival 2025, we are delighted to welcome back Donna Gillies and Highland Wool.
In 2016, inspired by the Hebridean sheep that are helping them rebuild their family farm, and frustrated by low wool prices – and by how few options there were for bespoke wool processing in Scotland – Donna and Donald Gillies began researching ways to process their own wool for onward sale. Along the way, they met like-minded farmers, crofters, and crafters, resulting in Highland Wool being founded in 2022 as a Community Interest Company (CIC), and the first steps taken toward building a washing and carding micro-mill on the farm.
In 2024, they took on their first few brave – and patient – clients, and in June 2025 began their first full season of washing and carding wool from farms across the Highlands & Islands. Highland Wool CIC is the recipient of the ‘Sustainable Product’ award for the 2025 RBST Scotland Food & Farming Sustainability Awards.
Ka Lok Shek Ellen
Skilled sewist Ka Lok Shek Ellen takes inspiration from her home town of Aberdeen, as well as her Chinese heritage, to produce beautiful and functional project bags for all fibre crafters.
Lammermuir Wool
Low Auldgirth
Over the hills but not too far away sits a small organic farm that works in harmony with nature. Using traditional methods and heritage breeds we farm the land in a way that enriches the environment, allowing us to produce quality farm products that capture the passion and heritage of the place it was grown. It’s a slow grown quality that you won’t find anywhere else.
Our wool is produced purely from our own flock of Ryeland and Gotland sheep who spend their days grazing on rich Scottish meadows in the heart of Dumfries and Galloway, this regenerative way of working creates high quality fibre that’s truly sustainable, raised the good old way, the slow way, the way nature intended.
Midge Porter Design
Midge Porter Design is a freelance textile designer who puts the motto of NATURAL – SUSTAINABLE – TRACEABLE at the heart of her creative practice. She’s passionate about working predominantly with natural dye sources and yarn that is traceable to small-scale Scottish farmers and small-holders. Miriam has extended her range of crochet kits to include materials from a number of the producers you will find at our Scottish Wool Producers Showcase next Saturday; and we are delighted to welcome her with these.
The Scottish Yarn Festival
Our own custom yarn will be available at the Scottish Wool Producers Showcase. Slow grown from Scottish provenance Shetland and Cheviot fleece before being worsted spun in Yorkshire, our yarn yields outstanding stitch definition to cables, colour-work, and lace. An abundance of samples from designers we’ve collaborated with and more can be found in our space within this celebration.
Shearing Crafts
I am a shearer based in Aberdeenshire, specialising in pets and small flocks. These fleeces are the raw materials for my wet felted rugs. They look like traditional sheepskins but are 100% wool, made by hand using soap and water. They are sustainable, eco-friendly and washable. I will also have local raw fleece and carded batts.
Uan Wool
Uan Wool is a family run artisan business based in the Braes of Angus on a traditional working hill farm. Alongside supplies for needle felting they have developed a range of wool pillows with their own grown wool and can also make bespoke to suit individual needs for injury or self-care. Superior comfort and temperature regulation. From sheep to sleep since 2015.
Wee County Yarns
Westfield Croft
Life’s journey brought Frank and Marguerite to rural Aberdeenshire in 2015. They have a small breeding flock of rare breed sheep, and wool has become a cornerstone of their sustainable craft business. On seeing their first sheep being shorn, Marguerite wanted to use the beautiful material of raw fleece to produce yarns that would be true to their flock and their landscape. Westfield Croft yarns are spun from carefully selected fleeces, from their own flock and from neighbouring farms and smallholders. All their raw fleece materials have clear Scottish provenance; spinning is outsourced to hand spinners or mills to produce their 100% wool and alpaca yarns.
Frank and Marguerite have rejuvenated willow and hazel coppices on their land and annually harvest rods for making baskets and willow structures. Their goal is to be as sustainable as possible in terms of food, fuel, and enhancing the raw materials of wool and willow that they harvest on Westfield Croft. Frank will be bringing a small selection of his baskets to our Showcase.