About The Wee Yarn Company

The Dyer and the Dog

Originally from Scotland, where the sheep outnumber the people, yarn must be in my DNA. I currently live in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, with my partner and our dog Winifred.

I've been knitting ever since my Gran taught me when I was a kid. I really got inspired by beautiful hand-dyed yarns and decided to try my hand at it myself.

I hope you will enjoy our yarns!

Ross (& Winnie)

The Wee Yarn Company is a small independent yarn dyer in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

As most independent dyers I started out dyeing at home. As The Wee Yarn Company quickly grew we transformed the little shed in our backyard to my own cosy little dye studio. However, I quickly outgrew the little 3x2 meter shed and now have a larger dye studio.

  • Markets

    We don't have a brick and mortar shop, but we love going to markets and yarn festivals. Stay up to date on where we'll be on instagram!

  • Our Yarn sources

    All our yarns are sourced with attention to animal welfare. Many of our bases are sourced from the UK or Europe, with some being custom milled. Our yarns are all guaranteed mulesing free.

  • Yarn-care

    We strongly advise to wash the products you make with our yarns by hand. And dry them on a flat surface after washing. This goes for both our superwash and non-superwash
    yarns. Sometimes during the first wash colours can run, especially the darker colours.

  • Handmade

    Because our yarn is hand-dyed, every skein is unique. Of course, I try to be as consistent as possible, but it’s possible that skeins differ somewhat. Especially when knitting
    or crocheting bigger products, for which you need several skeins of yarn of the same colour, we recommend buying them at the same time and alternating skeins.

Slow Fashion and Sustainability

The production of fast fashion has an enormous negative impact on local communities, workers rights, and climate change.

For me, knitting and hand-dyeing yarn is a way of countering these effects and making fashion slow and sustainable. It doesn’t get much slower then knitting or crocheting your own clothes and accessories. Your own handcrafted wardrobe items can easily last you a lifetime.

Our contribution

Being as sustainable as possible is very important for me.

  • The Wee Yarn Company Studio is entirely solar powered!
  • The equipment we use for dyeing is re-used and thrifted.
  • Our dyes are non-toxic and are absorbed completely in our yarn.
  • We don't use plastics in the wrapping or shipping of our products.
  • The freshly dyed skeins are airdried, to try and cut-down on electricity usage.