Yarn companies

• Alchemy Yarns

  Combining time-honored Fine Art techniques, the highest-quality fibers available worldwide, and a reverence for Nature’s palette, we create yarns—and thereby opportunities for creative expression—that transcend the typical. Pleasing the senses, soothing the soul—we strive for nothing less than the transformative moment in art and life.

• America's Alpaca

  America's Alpaca is owned by Alpaca Breeders in North America. We specialize in 100% alpaca yarns and blends with alpaca. We have a wide selection of both yarn and patterns. America's Alpaca yarns are sold at both retail and wholesale prices.

• Artyarns

  Artyarns luxury hand-painted yarns and patterns are sold at yarn shops across the U.S. and internationally. Co-founded by designer and author Iris Schreier, the company offers a unique line of designs. Modular knitting workshop materials are also available to Artyarns stockists.

• Aslandtrends USA Corp.

  Natural luxury yarns directly from the Patagonia and the Andes mountains.

• Be Sweet

  Be Sweet designs and represents creative products made with a conscience: handspun and dyed yarns and knit accessories that are made by women in a successful job-creation program in South Africa.

• Beaverslide Dry Goods

  Beaverslide Dry Goods features very soft, Rambouillet/Merino mule-spun yarns from our family-owned sheep ranch on the panoramic Montana Rocky Mountain Front.

• Bernat Yarns

  Great quality and prices make Bernat a favorite across North America. Known for innovation, Bernat is a leader in new products and project ideas. So many styles, weights, colors and kits to choose from...visit Bernat.com for free patterns and great ideas.

• Berroco

  At Berroco.com, you'll find the latest trends and fashion news as well as recent releases of new yarns and patterns. Easy to navigate, our new site features a library of free patterns, shade cards and essential information about each of our yarns, and a printable archive of our KnitBits Newsletter.

• Blue Sky Alpacas

  Blue Sky Alpacas designs and distributes exquisite yarns for handknitters and crocheters. We also offer plenty of ideas and inspiration for working with our yarns through patterns and books geared to all skill levels. You can preview our line of yarns and patterns on our Web site and purchase through any of the fine retailers listed on our site.

• Briggs and Little

  Briggs and Little has been manufacturing yarns made of 100% Canadian domestic wool for 150 years.

• Brown Sheep Company

  Brown Sheep Company is the manufacturer of natural fiber yarns. We use wool, mohair, cotton and silk fiber to produce ten different lines of yarn.

• Caron International

  Welcome to the new face of Caron yarns. As we continue to bring you your favorite yarns such as Simply Soft and Wintuk, we have also developed a whole new collection of yarns with sensational color, fascinating texture, and stitching bliss!

• Cascade Yarns

  Cascade Yarns is the distributor of some of the world's finest yarns at remarkably low prices.

• Cherry Tree Hill Yarn

  Let our online catalog fill all your handpainting needs. We feature handpainted yarns, kits, accessories, free patterns, newsletters and more!

• Chic-Tex

  Since January 1984, Chic-Tex Inc. has been known as a professional hand-knitting and machine-knitting yarn producer.

• Classic Elite Yarns

  Welcome to Classic Elite Yarns, home of distinctive yarns for knitters of all levels and interests. Browse through our collection, and visit your local yarn store to see, touch and enjoy our beautiful offerings.

• Claudia Hand Painted Yarns

  Claudia Hand Painted Yarns are dyed with peace, love, comfort and joy.

• Coats & Clark

  Coats & Clark is America's #1 name in sewing and needlecrafts products. Whether your passion is sewing or quilting, crochet, knitting, needlework or crafts, creativity starts here!

• Colinette Yarns

  Colinette's fine hand-dyed yarns are manufactured in a small village in the heart of Wales. Consumers in the U.S. should visit Uniquekolours.com for a complete list of Colinette retailers in the U.S., information on kits & patterns, and online color cards.

• Cotton Clouds

  Our mission at Cotton Clouds is to be much more than an online catalog supplying you with quality yarns at affordable prices. We're here to help make your shopping experience not only successful, but filled with a new sense of wonder about the yarns with which you love to work.

• Crystal Palace Yarns

  Crystal Palace, located in Richmond, California, is the wholesale distributor of classic and fashion yarns, Crystal Palace Bamboo and Star Bamboo Needles, and Daisy Needles to retail shops.

• Curious Creek Fibers

  Curious Creek Fibers is a hand-paint yarn and spinning fiber company based in San Diego, California. We are dedicated to providing knitting and spinning communities with the finest products, hand-painted on the best raw materials available.

• Dale of Norway

  Dale of Norway has produced superior-quality hand-knitting yarns from the finest Norwegian wool since 1879 and authentic Norwegian designs based on elements from nature, as well as designs with a contemporary flair.

• Dancing Leaf Farm

  Dancing Leaf Farm features its own line of handpainted yarns, vibrantly dyed in a rainbow colors, as well as yarns by Peace Fleece.

• Erdal

  Erdal features fashion yarns for knitting and weaving, yarns on skeins and cones, and free patterns.

• Exquisitely Angora

  Exquisitely Angora is a small company that produces high-quality luxe yarns. We specialize in hand-dyed, hand-spun textured yarns of different types of fiber, including angora rabbit, mohair fiber from goat, soft wool from sheep, and silk from silk worms.

• Farm Yarn

  Farm Yarn is the producer of natural knitting yarn that comes direct from the British countryside. Made of natural, luxurious fibers such as soft British alpaca, organic British sheep wool, and more. Delivery worldwide.

• Fiesta Yarns

  Fiesta Yarns is a leading manufacturer of hand-dyed yarn. Our signature yarn is LaBoheme, a two-strand yarn—one kid mohair and one rayon boucle.

• Frangipani Knitwear

  Frangipani offers a large selection of colors of Guernsey 5-ply wool, spun and dyed in Yorkshire to the traditional recipe used for fishermen's sweaters. Related pattern books and needles are also available.

• Garthenor Organic Pure Wool

  Garthenor produces knitting yarns and carded fleece in undyed natural colors from individual pure breeds of certified organic British sheep, retaining the characteristics of the original fleeces.

• Glory-ous Knits

  Glory-ous Knits sells famous brands such as Debbie Bliss, Dalegarn, Rowan, Jaeger, Cascade, KFI, Aurora, Louet, Fiesta, Cherry Hill, Swedish yarns, novelty yarns, natural fibers, exotic yarns, and wonderful yarns for kids knits. Kits, books, patterns, needles and more are also available.

• Great Adirondack

  A wholesale website dedicated to the fiber industry.

• Habu Textiles

  Habu Textiles specializes in unique and fine yarns imported from Japan for knitters, weavers, crocheters, basket makers and artists. We also carry knitting, crocheting and felting kits.

• Halcyon Yarn

  Halcyon Yarn has an extensive selection of natural yarn and fibers along with books, videos and equipment for knitting, spinning, weaving and other fiber arts.

• Hand Jive Knits

  Home of Nature's Palette, naturally plant-dyed yarn. Features an index of stores where the yarns can be purchased.

• Himalaya Yarn

  The mission of Himalaya Yarn is to bring unusual yarns and patterns to hand knitters while helping to employ people in Nepal. Since starting in 1996, the company has expanded to include a variety of yarns made of silk, wool and plant-based fibers.

• Jade Sapphire

  Jade Sapphire specializes in exotic fibers for the hand knitter.

• JCA Inc.

  JCA is the distributor of fine yarns such as Artful Yarns, Adrienne Vittadini, Jo Sharp, Reynolds, Paternayan and more.

• Jilly Knitwear

  Jilly Knitwear has sold cashmere yarn and garments for over twenty years. We offer affordable, good-quality cashmere, as well as patterns, kits and ready-to-wear garments.

• Karabella Yarns

  Founded in 1993, Karabella has quickly become one of today's most innovative yarn importers and has gained recognition for developing fashionable, easy-to-knit patterns.

• KFI

  KFI is an importer and distributor of fine hand-knitting yarns, including Araucania, Debbie Bliss, Elizabeth Austen, Elsebeth Lavold, Euro Yarns, Filati FF, Laines du Nord, Louisa Harding, Maggi Knits, Mondial, Noro, Queensland, Sirdar and more.

• Knit One, Crochet Too

  Knit One, Crochet Too offers a variety of hand-knitting yarns, patterns, kits and accessories.

• Knit Picks

  You'll find everything your knitting heart desires at KnitPicks.com. See large, close-up pictures of the yarns, view inside pages of books before you buy them, and find great projects linked to yarns. You'll be amazed at the money you can save on books, yarns, needles and more.

• Koigu

  For more than a decade, Koigu Wool Designs has been a revered source for top-quality handpainted merino yarn and exquisite patterns. Its wools feature a unique and rich palette that's as gorgeous as a painter's.

• Kollage Yarns

  Kollage Yarns offers an array of hand-knitting yarns, needles, patterns, embellishments, kits and more.

• Lightfoot Farms

  At Lightfoot Farms we love Alpacas! We are dedicated to raising these delightful creatures and educating people about the superior qualities of their fiber.

• Lily Sugar 'n Cream

  Our 4-ply, 100% cotton worsted craft yarn has grown to eighty-nine vibrant solids, ombres and prints, as well as twelve new Christmas Sparkles. Cotton yarn is now available in a sport-weight yarn with a color range of thirty-four solids, ombres and prints.

• Lion Brand Yarn Co.

  Lion Brand is a family-owned and operated business and a beloved American brand since 1878. Our Web site features free patterns as well as more than 450 yarn colors in fifteen different fibers including naturals, blends and acrylics.

• Lorna's Laces

  Lorna's Laces is the manufacturer of unique hand-dyed yarns, custom-designed patterns and beautiful knits.

• Louet Sales

  Louet Sales is a wholesale distributor of knitting yarn, spinning and weaving equipment, and specialty items.

• Mission Falls

  Mission Falls, based in Canada, is the producer of cotton and wool yarns, buttons and pattern books. Consumers in the U.S. should visit Uniquekolours.com for online color cards and a complete list of Mission Falls retailers in the U.S.

• Misti Alpaca

  We at Misti strive to provide you with the largest color and weight yarn selection of 100% Peruvian baby alpaca, one of the softest fibers on earth. Choose from Misti Alpaca lace, sport, worsted and chunky yarns.

• Morehouse Farm

  Morehouse Farm is one of the leading Merino sheep farms in North America, offering a large selection of award-winning white and black breeding stock, fabulously soft knitting yarn, and a unique collection of handknits and gifts.

• Mountain Colors

• Muench Yarns

  Muench Yarns is the exclusive U.S. distributor of GGH Yarns and Rebecca Magazine, as well as high-quality patterns, buttons, needles and notions.

• Naturally Yarns/Wentworth Distributors, Ltd.

• Needful Yarns

  Needful Yarns is an importer and distributor of fine yarns.

• Norwegian Spirit

  Norwegian Spirit is a design, service and innovation leader in quality Norwegian knitwear and handknitting yarns and patterns.

• Patons

  Patons offers high-quality yarns supported by beautiful patterns. Our Designer Series yarns and books are sure to inspire, and Patons' Classics, Kids, Home and Baby collections cover every type of project. Visit us online to become a free member and receive free patterns.

• Pierre de Loye

  Pierre de Loye is the manufacturer of Anny Blatt and Bouton d'Or, two of the most respected yarn collections sold worldwide. Our beautiful yarns are created and produced in France and supported by our exclusive styles, designed by our own Design Group.

• Plassard Yarns

  Plassard is a fourth-generation family-owned company since 1886, supplying the finest-quality fashion yarns for your knitting pleasure. Brookman Imports is the exclusive U.S. distributor of Plassard Yarns and distributes to fine knitting boutiques across the U.S.

• Plymouth Yarn Co.

  Plymouth Yarn Co. is a wholesale distributor of quality patterns, accessories and hand-knitting yarns, including Adriafil, Alpaca Brand, Cleckheaton, Filati Bertagna, Le Fibre Nobili and Lane Cervinia, Plymouth Brand, Plymouth Brand French Collection, and Plymouth Brand Italian Collection.

• Prism Yarn

  Creative Director Laura Militzer Bryant brings her passion to creating two seasons of new yarns, colors and designs every year. The Prism collection includes cashmere, silk, angora, kid mohair, alpaca, novelty nylons and more.

• Rowan USA

  Visit us online to browse through this season's yarns, accessories, patterns, books, magazines and more.

• S.R. Kertzer

  S.R. Kertzer is the producer of knitting supplies, kits, software and yarns of every fiber, weight and color.

• Schaefer Yarn Company

  We have been hand-dyeing variegated yarn commercially since 1980. Now it takes a family of fourteen to bring Schaefer Yarn to you, and yet every skein is still individually hand-painted, just as it was in the beginning. Half of our yarns are made exclusively for us in the U.S., and we support all our fibers with patterns to knit or crochet.

• Shadyside Farm Studio

  At Shadyside Farm and Mill, in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, our natural-colored Romney, Shetland and Lincoln sheep graze on 100 acres. Our fleeces are individually chosen and spun into yarn. In our farm studio we blend fresh fibers into homespun yarns of unusual quality, and in our dye studio a selection of our yarns are beautifully colored by hand.

• Skacel

  The Skacel Collection has been a wholesaler of high-end yarns and needles for almost twenty years. Our fibers are manufactured in our German, Italian and Peruvian mills using the highest-quality materials. Skacel is proud to be the sole North American distributor of the Addi line of hand-knitting needles and accessories.

• South West Trading Company

  South West Trading Company is the source for soy silk and bamboo yarns. Visit us online to see our newest patterns, colors and yarns from these exotic and unusual fibers.

• Spinrite

  Spinrite is the distributor of Bernat, Lily and Patons yarns.

• Tahki Stacy Charles, Inc.

  Tahki Stacy Charles, Inc. distributes the yarn brands Filatura di Crosa, Filatura di Crosa Baby, Filatura Di Crosa Cashmere, S. Charles Collezione, Tahki Yarns and Tahki Select Yarns.

• The Fibre Company

  Carrying on the tradition that gave New England its enduring legacy of textile craftsmanship and design, The Fibre Company offers a collection of yarns made from unique blends of natural fibers such as alpaca, camel, cashmere, organic cotton, linen, merino, silk, soy and yak.

• Trendsetter Yarns

  TrendsetterYarns.com is an easy way to enjoy the wonderful textures, color selections and innovative styles that we have to offer. You can also find one of our many wonderful retail store locations around the world and see where our trunk shows and special events will be located.

• Unique Kolours

  Unique Kolours is the U.S. distributor of Colinette Hand-Dyed Yarns and Mission Falls, which manufacture some of the most inspiring knitting yarns available in the world. Visit us online to view color cards, photos of available yarns and patterns, and a list of retail shops that sell our products.

• Universal Yarn Inc,

  Supplies independent yarn stores with over 100 yarns from four brands.

• VIP Fibers

  Mail order custom handspun yarn from your very important pet.

• Wensleydale Longwool Sheepshop

  Wensleydale Longwool Sheepshop offers the finest hand-knitting longwool and patterns. The soft, silky curls of the Wensleydale sheep characterize all of our yarns, available in Aran, double knitting, 4ply and 2ply, and dyed to a spectrum of the gentlest country hues.

• Westminster Fibers

  Westminster Fibers offers a wide variety of fabrics, yarns, needlepoint and cross-stitch products for wholesale purchase only. Our brands include Westminster, Rowan, Jaeger, Nashua, Gedifra, Regia, Schachenmayr, Anchor, Glorafilia and Susan Bates.

• Woolyarns, Ltd.

  A New Zealand manufacturer custom designing yarns to fit any knitting needs in terms of blend, count and color.