Jane Tsou of Gorilla Knits is a knitwear designer whose patterns reflect the modern, laid-back aesthetic of Southern California, with simple lines and chill vibes.…
This Business Is …: BIPOC-Owned
These yarncraft-related businesses are owned by Black people, Indigenous people and other People of Color.
Yarn Shoppe Denver
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In addition to being a yarn community hub in Denver, Yarns Shoppe Denver dyes and sells its own yarns. Owner Cassandra Allen Brown says, “I…
Native Knits
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Jennifer Berg says that as a Navajo woman, that heritage is “deeply interwoven into my identity. … As I became obsessed with knitting over the…
Yellowcosmo Designs
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Connie Peng’s company Yellowcosmo Designs benefits from her fine art background. “In my studio, I paint and draw. I take that same sense of exploration…
Theresa at Ewe-nited States of Fiber, based in Yorklyn, Delaware, teaches various levels of both natural and acid dye classes. She also teaches at Wild…
Urban Girl Yarns
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Ashland, Virginia dyer Shelia Anderson started dyeing four years ago “and I have never looked back. I started knitting when I was 6 years old…
LolaBean Yarn Co.
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Georgia-based “LolaBean Yarn Co. began 5 years ago with a single stitch; that quickly turned into a thousand stitches as I contemplated on what I…
UK designer Jimenez Joseph of JimiKnits “pretty much started designing right from the moment I picked up my needles. In those days, I would buy…
Bayron Handmade
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Denise Bayron designs modern garments that are practical, minimal, and most often geometric. After 15 years of working as an executive in the fast fashion…
Mother of Purl
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Lauren McElroy runs home-based Mother of Purl in “rural Wisconsin, the occupied land that is the traditional and ancestral home of the oceti sakowin, ho-chunk,…