Member Spotlight: Blacker Yarns launches new shades of the Romney Guernsey collection
08/04/2022
UKFT member Blacker Yarns has recently launched new shades of the Romney Guernsey yarn. The traditional 5-ply Guernsey yarn was named after the Channel Island but was spun from local wool in coastal areas all around the UK and Northern Europe. It was then knitted into warm working wear for sea-faring, farming and mining people.
The 5-ply construction makes a yarn which locks together well to make a garment wind-proof. The worsted spinning creates a crisp and lean yarn with excellent stitch definition for fancy textured designs but also helps soften the handle of the local wool. This yarn links land and sea, with natural colours including dark peat, foamy cream and pewter, along with rich dyed shades of browns and blues to reflect sea, shore and rocks.
Blacker Yarns creates fine natural yarns and specialises in breed specific British wool yarn, all spun at its mill in Cornwall. The company produces a large variety of different bases in contemporary colour palettes. The crochet and knitting yarns are available in different weights including 3ply, 4ply, Double Knitting, Aran & Chunky amongst others and cover everything from every day classics providing good value to rare and luxury varieties.
Blacker Yarns care about the best quality fibre, hence they source almost everything from British farmers, as locally as possible, who take the utmost care of animals and nature. This leads to the best knitting and crochet yarns, giving the customers the opportunity to use 100% natural, unique wool.
Project Kits
Blacker Yarns also creates project kits such as the Anchor Gansey Project Kit, which includes the Anchor Gansey pattern designed by Rita Taylor, beautifully presented in the Blacker Yarns cotton tote bag. This lovely, warm pullover is inspired by the classic fisherman’s Guernsey. It has a stocking-stitch body with a panel of stitch work, including an anchor motif on the front. More kits are available like the Traditional Guernsey pullover, which is a good introductory design, modelled on the Cornish designs with a textured yoke and plain body. This kit includes the Traditional Guernsey pattern designed by June Onigbanjo. Their kits are perfect as a gift for a loved one.
