Our marketplace is always the most anticipated feature of The Scottish Yarn Festival; the place to find materials and inspiration for your future crafting projects, the chance to meet and talk with the makers behind your favourite independent brands, to indulge in a little celebrity spotting.
Famed as the yarn event for discovering and supporting up-and-coming fibre businesses since 2016, you’ll also find veterans of our community who have travelled the length and breadth of the UK to converge in Perthshire for our annual celebration.
This year we are delighted to bring you:
All Wool That Ends Wool
A bright and bold collection of hand dyed yarn, on a variety of bases. Alongside the yarns you’ll find handmade stitch markers, yarn cosies, handcrafted wooden yarn bowls, and other knitting and crochet notions.
Annfield Farm
Annfield Farm was started out of our love for Angora goats and our desire to see local and natural yarns make a comeback to Scotland and the UK. We are entirely no-kill, all our 60 goats get to live their whole natural lives on our farm in Fife, grazing and producing fibre.
We started with our unique Mohair and Shetland blend and have since expanded to pure Shetland and pure wool ranges. We hand dye all our yarns ourselves in our kitchen using only British made dyes to reduce our carbon footprint.
Approachable Earth
Approachable Earth design and create original hand-embroidered, appliqued, and beaded items such as knitting bags, crochet hook purses, scissor sheaths, and pincushions. They also design needlework kits in Bargello, blackwork and embroidery styles.
Approachable Earth love natural materials like silk, cotton, Scottish woollen tweeds, and linen; their beads are high-quality Czech glass beads; and they mindfully chose recyclable snaps and buttons for fastening.
Beautiful Fleece
Established over 40 years in rural Aberdeenshire, our ethically reared flock produces fine quality, award winning fleece and yarn from 17 native breeds of sheep.
BalticKnits
Bringing Latvian heritage to Scotland – offering knitting kits inspired by centuries-old Latvian mitten traditions, alongside exquisite self-shading wool from the historic Pace Dundaga mill, crafting since 1896.
The Birlinn Yarn Company
Island sourced – organically dyed – limited edition. Yarn from sheep bred on crofts in the Outer Hebrides.
Bog Born Crafts
Bog Born Crafts is a Perthshire based ceramics and craft business run by Emma in her little garden studio near Blairgowrie. As an archaeologist turned potter, Emma is inspired by local craft history, as well as the surrounding Scottish nature. She delights in creating objects that are both practical and decorative, from mugs, yarn bowls, tea bags rests, and drop spindles, to pendants, brooches, and buttons.
When not creating pottery Emma hangs out with her spaniel in the Perthshire woods, is trying to finish knitting a jumper (slowly!), or is working part time at a little local library.
Bow Fiddle Yarns
Louise from Bow Fiddle Yarns has a passion for colour and texture. As well as a wall of colour, you’ll find a selection of KnitPro needles and hooks so you can start your project immediately, as well as fun stitch markers. New for this year are exclusive tools including 3D printed yarn bowls and engraved reminder key rings.
Brawliemuir Farm
Brawliemuir is a small business founded on principles of animal welfare, eco-sustainability, respect for life and nature, and the belief that it is both morally right and materially possible to interact with the environment without plundering it. At Brawliemuir they raise their animals compassionately, craft high-quality products, and honour the rhythms of nature.
Burnfoot Wool
Burnfoot Wool is a family business located near Langholm in Dumfries & Galloway, where they care for a flock of 1,500 South County Cheviot x New Zealand Romney sheep on their hill farm. In 2022, they decided to add value to their wool, which had a market return below production costs, and begun producing 4-ply, Double Knit, and Aran weight yarn, alongside their beautiful lambswool blankets. Committed to supporting local businesses, they work with FTS Dyers and Drove Weavers in Langholm. Burnfoot Wool is proud to create natural, sustainable products sourced 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.
The Cocoon Tree
The Cocoon Tree is a small business based in the North East of England which makes project bags and pin cushions of all shapes and sizes.
Di Gilpin Ltd
Dina’s Home of Crafts
Dina’s Home of Crafts has been an awesome adventure beginning in August 2014. Behind the neatly stacked shelves of luxurious yarns, fibre and all sorts of accessories stands Dina, rather shy girl from Latvia.
If you are looking for an advice for what works best for your project, she is the person to go to. Her life has always been filled with unravelling balls of yarn and needles. She is not afraid of colours and always comes up with bold and exciting colour combinations. Her work is greatly inspired by her roots in Eastern Europe. She takes pride of working with yarn and fibre coming from mulesing free sources. While her needles and hooks flashes away creating yet another project, she has in her mind it is not the only of her talents. Dina loves experimenting and since 2018 has started designing and publishing patterns too.
One of our greatest products and the one we are proud of is availability to offer Dharma dyes for yarn and other fibres. We are also stockists of Lykke needles, KnitPro and HiyaHiya products, Knitting Barber accessories, and Muud project bags…
Dystopic Fibre
Dystopic Fibre began in 2020, initially taking inspiration from popular science-fiction and pop culture. Over several years the style of colour placement has evolved to cover a wide spectrum of high saturated and speckled colourways with wearable neutrals, deep tonals and neon pops.
Jon dyes the yarn from his home in Glasgow, he enjoys putting together colour palettes for larger projects involving multiple colourways alongside smaller knits like sock sets and mini skein fades. Most recently having completed his latest 30 days of yarn project, he’s so excited to share his latest colourways at The Scottish Yarn Festival, in Perth, this year.
Eden Cottage Yarns
Established in 2011, we are now a small team producing the best quality yarns that we can; using beautiful materials designed to be a joy to work with and wear, and practical too.
The yarn is hand dyed by Victoria with an emphasis on simple but gorgeous colours, as well as sustainability, and ECY has become synonymous with a muted palette of semi-solid shades.
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. Beyond her
Folkestone Harbour Yarn
Folkestone Harbour Yarn offer hand dyed yarns on a variety of wools with a focus on British sheep breeds. Their range includes naturally dyed wools, notions, project bags, patterns, and kits.
Folklore Yarns Ltd
Folklore Yarns is a bricks and mortar yarn shop in East Belfast lovingly owned by Karen and Kirsty for the last 6 years. Their ethos is ‘local and natural where possible.’ We aim to stock yarns that support local industry and farmers. We specialise in Donegal Tweed and have a very strong relationship with Donegal Yarns. We have 3 of our own ranges of Donegal Tweed which we will bring to The Scottish Yarn Festival this year. First of all we have our Traditions Range – a pure wool aran weight yarn. It’s a beautiful traditional yarn that has been used to make Aran sweaters for years and is available in over 30 colours. Next is our cosy Faerie Folk yarn – a soft merino mohair blend DK weight available in 15 colours all based around natural woodland. Finally we have our sport weight Banbha (pronounced Ban-va) – a merino silk cashmere blend with more subtle flecks.
Ginger Twist Studio
Ginger Twist Studio is a beautiful bricks and mortar shop in Edinburgh selling yarn, fabrics, books and haberdashery. This is also home to Ginger’s Hand Dyed, made by the owner Jess. Ginger Twist Studio have been open for since 2013, and there is always something new and inspiring to see in the shop.
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.
Donna Gillies will be delivering her presentation, ‘Building A Sustainable Future….. With Wool’ on Saturday as part of our wider Festival programme.
Hodgeheg Creations
Hodgeheg Creations is a small creative business based in Edinburgh who makes handmade items for knitters and the wider world of crafters. Products are nature inspired and use lots of floral and animal prints. Each fabric choice or charm becomes small batch items – including project bags, needle cases, and stitch markers – making each item extra special.
Knotted By Nish
Nish specialises in creating vibrant, hand-dyed merino wool, with a particular focus on super chunky weights. Her bold, playful colourways bring a unique touch to every project, making her yarns a favourite among knitters and crafters alike.
Lammermuir Wool
Lammermuir Wool was born from a desire to showcase high-quality yarn with traceability, produced from a small, gently managed flock in East Lothian with environmental kindness at its heart. We produce single flock, slaughter-free Shetland wool in a range of undyed shades, as well as small-batch hand-dyed yarn, inspired by the natural landscape around us. We now also produce Shetland and other yarns from local flocks within a five-mile radius, building a community where fleeces are local, traceable and fairly traded.
Lynsey Walters Jewellery
Lynsey Walters has been in business for 25 years creating costume textile jewellery, Her work is a combination of handmade and industrial felt merino wool. Lynsey’s range of pieces include necklaces, brooches, earrings, and some hair accessories.
Midge Porter Design
Midge Porter Design’s motto is NATURAL – SUSTAINABLE – TRACEABLE. Miriam is passionate about working predominantly with natural dye sources and yarn that is traceable, wherever possible, to small-scale UK farmers and producers; especially those in her home country of Scotland. As well as producing hand dyed skeins of yarn, she designs knitted and crochet patterns and kits. She also hand dyes embroidery threads and designs embroidery kits with a modern, quirky slant that is based upon historical Blackwork and cross-stitch techniques.
The Modern Crafter
The Modern Crafter are sisters, Rachel and Siobhan, who design and make by hand punch needle and embroidery kits.
Mothy and the Squid
Established in 2007, Mothy and the Squid is a Scotland-based artisan indie dyer specialising in ethically sourced premium yarns. Each skein is hand dyed in small batches and inspired by nature. They focus on finding inspiration in unusual, bright, and beautiful species.
Mrs Lam Yarns
A skilled sewist based in Aberdeenshire who enjoys making project bags to suit all, as well as a yarn dyer who takes inspiration from the beauty of the Scottish scenery and Asian in particular Chinese culture.
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. She is known for her love of soft, quiet, colourways and beautifully tactile yarns, perfect for quieting busy brains and making beautiful wearable garments.
Quack Yarn
Quack yarn was hatched in in autumn 2020 out of a love for colour, and hand dyed yarn, with every skein dyed in small batches by Fiona in her small garage workshop. She is equally at home dyeing dark and moody shades, or bright and bold assigned pooling skeins. One thing all Quack Yarn colourways have in common is that they are inspired by fun!
Rainbow Heirloom
Rainbow Heirloom is an Edinburgh-based hand dyed yarn studio which specialises in bright and fun semi-solid colourways, full of depth and complexity. With a large selection of full and mini skeins across a range bases, these yarns are all about having fun and playing with colour!
Rooster Yarns
Our business at Rooster Yarns has grown out of three passions: high quality natural fibre yarns, sustainable and ethical trading, and crafting with friends.
Our journey began three generations ago as wool merchants, sourcing and trading in top quality wool products worldwide. Quality, sustainability and ethical trading were as important to us then as they are today.
Through the decades, we have developed excellent relationships with mills across the globe to bring you the best in natural fibre yarns, along with beautiful Fair Trade hand-dyed yarns from Manos del Uruguay and Addi Needles.
Scotlandshop
Custom made clothing and accessories for all the family in any tartan, interiors and soft furnishings to suit every home, or simply lengths of fabric if you prefer to make your own. We create unique products to celebrate your link to Scotland. Come and peruse our swatch books of over 500 tartans woven in Scotland.
The Scottish Yarn Festival
Our own custom yarn will be available at The Scottish Yarn Festival. We’ll be launching a new ‘clan’ to the existing range of 11 colours and 3 natural blends – all of which are available in 4-ply and DK – and we’ll be introducing another two DK marls.
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.
Shearing Crafts
Pam is a sheep shearer covering Aberdeen and Moray, specialising in pets and small flocks. The fleeces – which she collects all summer – are the raw materials for her 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. Shearing Cratfs will also have local raw fleece and carded batts.
theforthstitcher
theforthstitcher designs and make bags and storage solutions for yarn crafters. These include notions pouches, needle cases, tool rolls, project bags and large craft caddies which can hold multiple smaller projects. Everything is made by hand, in Scotland, with as little waste as possible.
Third Vault Yarns
Third Vault Yarns provides deep, rich and colourful science fiction and fantasy inspired yarns, and a mixture of classic and geeky knitting patterns accessible to everyone.
Trava & Wool
Hand dyed yarn, fibre, and second hand textiles dyed with plant extracts, flowers, and other natural materials. Hand embroidered project bags and quirky knitted toy kits. Some handy patterns to keep us warm and happy.
Uan Wool
Uan Wool is a family run artisan business based on a traditional working hill farm. Alongside supplies for wet and needle felting they have developed a range of wool bed pillows made with their own grown wool, originally to help their asthmatic son sleep, but now to help everyone sleep with wool for superior comfort and temperature control.
Uist Wool
Uist Wool runs a spinning mill and wool centre on the island of Grimsay, North Uist, in the southern part of the Outer Hebrides. We buy fleece and fibre directly from crofters and farmers and specialise in spinning natural tonal blends of yarn for knitting and weaving. Provenance is a key part of our story. All the production processes are done at the mill on Grimsay by our small team of dedicated staff who care about creating yarns that are true to origin and showcase the exceptional qualities of Scottish wool and fibre.
Unaroo Designs
Founded in 2022, Unaroo Designs specialises in beautiful hand dyed British wool. Taking inspiration from the natural world and the joy of everyday life, this one-woman business is based in the Cairngorms National Park. Alex is driven by the belief that our crafts shouldn’t cost the planet and that our native sheep deserve to be celebrated. Stop by Unaroo’s stall for plenty of squish, wonderful wool wash and lots of laughter.
Wee County Yarns
Based in Britain’s smallest county, Wee County Yarns have a huge range of shades for Fair Isle knitting, and beautifully soft lambswool. All their yarn is pure wool, spun in Scotland, and they have a wide range of colourful pattern designs in both knitting and crochet.
Westfield Croft
Life’s journey brought Marguerite and Frank to rural Aberdeenshire in 2015. They have a small fibre flock of rare breed sheep; wool being 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 are true to their sheep and landscape. Westfield Croft yarns are spun from carefully selected fleeces, from their own flock and from neighbouring farms and smallholders. All
their fleece raw materials have clear Scottish provenance, spinning is outsourced to hand spinners or UK mills to produce their 100% wool or alpaca yarns.
They have rejuvenated willow and hazel coppices on their land and annually harvest rods for making baskets and willow structures. The Westfield Croft 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 from their land.
The Woolchemist
The Woolchemist is a small artisan yarn dyer from Central Scotland, specialising in low micron extra fine merino and merino blend yarns suitable for sensitive skin, from lace weight to chunky. Roni’s striking and exciting colourways are inspired mainly by books and folklore, and they always tell a story. Her favourite genre is fantasy, and she loves bringing the creatures and scenes of myths and legends to life.
wool decanted
We create small batch blended British wool. It’s natural, traceable, sustainable … and it’s soft! Our latest blend, vintage 23, is a deliciously soft blend of wool fibres from Polwarth, Romney, and Black Shetland sheep.
The Woolly Tangle
The Woolly Tangle is run by Tanya, from her home in North Wales. Pastel tones and soft natural colours, in a range of bases, are often in the dye pans, inspired by the natural landscape of mountains and sea, and local flora. Tanya also handcrafts a wide range of different sized project bags, including their special waxed cotton and pure wool bag ranges. A variety of stitch markers, for both knitters and crocheters, are also stocked, to avoid unnecessary counting!