Projects with our Wool

Our main product is naturally dyed embroidery yarns but we also undertake commissions, usually for historical reconstruction. In recent years these have included:

Dyeing and weaving costume fabrics to archaeological specifications for 10th century Jorvik Viking Museum in York.

Dyeing and weaving for Barley Hall Museum in York. 15th Century reconstruction of Lord Mayor's House.

Dyeing and weaving fabrics for cope, altar frontals and other fabrics and dyeing wools for chancel carpet for Oxford City Church.

Dyeing and weaving fabrics for Viking costumes for the National Maritime Museum.

Supplying appropriat naturally dyed yarns to Madeira Threads (UK) Ltd for Jan Messent's reconstruction of the missing panel of the 11th century Bayeux Tapestry.

Dyeing yarns for 17th century upholstery reproduction.

Dyeing yarns for 17th century refurbishment of Plas Mawr in Conway, North Wales.

Dyeing fabrics for the Royal Museum in Canterbury for a display of life in the 1st century.

Work for several other museums and churches and a great variety of special projects.

Latest news

Socks

Voila! Socks knitted by Polly Van Bremmel using the bluefaced Leicester -Iris, here is what she has to say about the pattern she used and the yarn.

Cookie A Knit-a-long

Renaissance Dyeing is a sponsor for this months Cookie A, Sock Innovation, Knit-a-long (Kal)

Madder Compost

The sock yarn below was dyed not exactly on a compost heap but in buckets of left over dye stuffs that were left in the sun for a few weeks.

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