Dyeing

Yarn has to be dyed to achieve any colours other than natural fleece shades of white or brown. We enjoy selecting colours from the wide ranges available from UK spinning mills. We also have Skye Wool custom dyed to our own specification.

Wool can be dyed either after it has been spun (‘cone dyeing’) or ‘in the fleece’ prior to spinning. We use both types of yarn depending on the effect we want to achieve. For cone-dyeing, the yarn is immersed into a dye vat on special cones and then rinsed and wound onto regular yarn cones. For ‘in the fleece’ dyeing, fleeces are dyed a number of different colours then mixed up and blended to create the overall desired colour. The result is a yarn that still shows the various colours within it, giving it a depth that works really well in our tweeds.