What to buy and where to get it!
Lots of yarn and fibre projects can be done using materials which you may already have at home or which you can find locally. These include knitting needles, crochet hooks, yarns, string, sewing threads, sewing needles and everyday items like curtain rings, glue and double sided sticky tape! If you need to buy any of these try looking in your local charity (thrift) shops first - if you're lucky you'll find what you want at a bargain price. Keep your eyes open at yard sales/ car-boot sales, too! The local yarn shop will have a bigger choice of colours and textures for you to choose from, but everything will cost more. Don't forget to look at your local market stalls.Other basics might come from a hardware store.

Some items may be easier to get by mail order, for example fibres for handspinning and feltmaking, drop-spindles and spinning wheels. If you know of a supplier in your county/state/country let us know about them and we'll add it to our list. It's possible to use on-line suppliers, too, so you see, there's just no reason why you can't start creating right now!

(The webmaster can accept no responsibility regarding transactions with the suppliers listed. The list is intended to help visitors to the YYU site and implies no endorsement or guarantee; a supplier's non-inclusion implies no criticism of goods or services.)


Ruth Gough stocks the largest selection of fibres in the UK, also yarns, spindles, spinning wheels, carders - just about everything that hand-spinners and felt-makers could possibly want. Mail orders and personal callers welcome (ring to check opening hours.) Courses offered.

Wingham Wool Work, 70, Main Street, Wentworth, Rotherham, South Yorkshire. S62 7BR. UK.

Tel. no: 01226 742926. Fax: 01226 741166.

E-mail: wingwool@clara.net

Web site: http://www.wingwool.clara.net

 A drop spindle as supplied by Wingham Wool Work, Rotherham.


Ian Bowers and his staff supply hand spinning, weaving and dyeing equipment, yarns, fibres and dyestuffs - both natural and synthetic dyes - by mail order. They also stock a fine range books, magazines and videos. 40 page catalogue available-send £1.00 to:

Fibrecrafts, 1, Old Portsmouth Road, Peasmarsh, Guildford, Surrey. GU3 1LZ UK

Tel. no: 01483 565800

Fax:01483 565807

E-mail: sales@fibrecrafts.co.uk

Sue Chitty runs Hilltop - a mail order service for spinning, weaving, dyeing and related textile craft supplies, including kits and peg looms plus a range of craft tuition videos. Personal callers by appointment. Catalogue available.

Hilltop, Windmill Cross, Canterbury Road, Folkestone, Kent. CT8 8HD UK

Tel. no: 01303 862617

E-mail: handspin@tesco.net


Roger at Yarn Forward describes his service as 'An online source for yarn, knitting, crochet, patterns and needlework supplies' and asked to be included here. Visit the cyberstore http://www.yarnforward.com and browse - there are helpful suggestions and ideas and often a free pattern, too.

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