Concord Monitor

An unlikely business – hand-dyeing wool – is proving to be a Main Street success, even without a storefront

Lexie Hodgkins (left) and owner Sonya Brazell look for the sparkle patterns in the drying wool in the front window of Woolen Boon on South Main Street. Credit: GEOFF FORESTER / Monitor staff Sign up ...
Albuquerque Journal

One skein at a time: Dagmar Beinenz-Byrd turned hand dyeing yarn into a thriving venture

Silky skeins of merino wool dangle from a drying rack outside the sun-soaked studio. They say turn your passion into your profession. So Albuquerque artist Dagmar Beinenz-Byrd founded ZiaWoolz, a hand ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Ekka's yarn spinner draws crowds with gum leaf wonder

One of Brisbane's most loyal show exhibitors continues to draw crowds at the Royal Queensland Show through her love of dyeing wool naturally with gum leaves. Karlene Lewis has been to every Ekka since ...
Oxford Mail

Dyeing to knit

Jeni Hewlett knows exactly the quality and provenance of the wool and fibres which she is ordering for her supplies. That is because she has been out to Peru to visit the mills, see the suppliers and ...
BBC

'Happy sheep' make the best wool, say yarn experts

Well-cared for and "happy" sheep make the best wool, yarn experts who use rare-breeds have said. Becci and Markus Pamely-Bast founded a wool and hand-dyed yarn business seven years ago on a narrowboat ...