Cashmere Yarn | Finished product

by Rosie Sugden | May 1, 2018 | Behind-the-scenes

Once the cashmere fibre has been through dyeing, carding, spinning and winding and turned into yarn it is ready to go into stock or be sold. It is in these boxes pictured that the yarn is shipped up to our mill in the Scottish Borders. We buy our yarn in Kgs and order...

Cashmere Yarn | The Dye House

by Rosie Sugden | Apr 9, 2018 | Behind-the-scenes

Once the yarn arrives from Mongolia and colours have been chosen it’s onto the dye house! The smell of the dye-house is so nostalgic for me as when I was little my Dad used to take me round the mill after school and I always loved seeing all the processes,...

Cashmere Yarn | Recipe Room

by Rosie Sugden | Apr 5, 2018 | Behind-the-scenes

For the second instalment of this series I wanted to take you behind the scenes in the “Recipe Room”. Every year my yarn supplier send me a new “shade-card”. This is their equivalent of a look book and details all their colours available for...

The Mill | Behind the scenes pt1

by Rosie Sugden | May 17, 2017 | Behind-the-scenes

We recently paid a visit to the mill we work with in the Scottish Borders and I took along brilliant photographer Ciara Menzies to capture some of the behind-the-scenes action. I’ve worked with this mill since I started my business in 2011 and I love that it is...