Fyberspates is a yarn & book distributor, specializing in working with carefully chosen small independent companies. We supply shops in the UK, USA & ROW from our UK warehouse. We are about to set up our new European warehouse in the Netherlands to make shipping to our European shops nice and easy! When it comes to our yarns, we commission spin all of our own yarns and work with designers to produce their own lines. Fyberspates own yarns are well known for their hand-dyed and vibrant colour palettes. We create yarn that makes people happy from skein to garment.  We also distribute books from independent designers, and now very excited to welcome Pom Pom to our Fyberspates family.

Our Story

Fyberspates started as a hand dyed company in the UK in early 2005 when hand dyed yarn was hard to get hold of, browsing the internet and seeing the dreamy colours you could buy in the USA, I looked around the internet for UK companies who were doing the same thing, at the time, these were few and far between. Having always loved textiles from an early age, sewing dresses and making shoes from cereal packets and fabric, making clothes has been a passion.

As the company grew it became clear very quickly that we would not be able to manufacture yarns in our own back garden on a scale large enough to supply shops as well as our beloved customers and so Scrumptious was born!  Scrumptious was our very first commercial yarn and the Scrumptious range grew from there.  After a while we wanted to go back to our hand-dyed roots and produce a yarn range that reflected the delicious colours I loved so much in the yarns I dyed and Vivacious was created! This was the most exciting development in my company, we flew to South America, I spoke no Spanish, and the dyers spoke no English, but we worked together with lots of sign language and I taught them my recipes, and in return, they now dye me the most wonderful Vivacious and Gleam ranges.  Our next range was Cumulus, with its soft pillowy clouds of alpaca and silk, this is a slight departure to our shiny and bright yarns, but its complements the range really well.  

As the company has grown I have always enjoyed collaborating with my favourite designers to bring different yarns and patterns to the range. Coopknits Socks Yeah and Socks Yeah DK with Rachel Coopey, and Nua Sport and Nua Worsted by Carol Feller.  Our newest range is Axis by Lily Kate, a gorgeous non-superwash worsted weight yarn perfect for garments.

The Fyberspates team is really excited to be distributing Pom Pom Magazine from Jan 2023 in the UK, Europe, and ROW.

We have always worked with independent designers in our bid to step outside traditional pattern support, and we are very proud of the patterns we produce.  We work closely with tech editors and checkers to make sure our patterns are easy to read and understandable.

Fyberspates is committed to promoting equality and diversity. We aim to be an inclusive organisation, committed to providing equal opportunities through the people we employ, be it on a permanent, part time or temporary basis. This extends to everyone: our customers, the mill we spin our yarns with, the designers who designs our patterns, the models we use to model our knitwear and other collaborative partners and freelancers. We acknowledge there is always work to be done but we commit to always to put those values at the forefront of our business.

We hope you enjoy knitting our yarns, our aim is to bring a touch of Indie to our commercial ranges, since that's where we started and where we like to be, always creating something fun and different.

Happy Knitting!
Jeni
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