A beautifully curated selection of some of Aotearoa’s finest small fibre-related businesses.
Ad Maiora Angoras
Veronica Rall brings us Angora from her flock situated on the Banks Peninsula. She’ll have both yarns and locks to tempt us.
Dark Harbour Yarn
Dark Harbour Yarn is run by Nikki Jones and is based in stunning Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington – where there is a lot of need for sensibly woolly items.
She dyes a range of bases and specialises in yarns with great depth of colour. She also makes bags and needle rolls.
Deep Creek Woolworks
Suzie Rollinson from Waimate is launching her brand new business at Unwind!
Come and squeeze some fibre from her own sheep and have a chat about the fibre processing services she can provide.
Dye Studio 54
Aleisha has been a passionate knitter for over 20 years, knitting garments for the people she loves.
Dye Studio 54 was created as a part of her desire to knit with beautiful yarns that are as colourful, and unique as the people she knit for.
Aleisha hand dyes all her yarn in small batches in her studio behind her home in Greymouth on the West Coast.
Frances Stachl Jeweller
Hand made contemporary jewellery by Frances Stachl (Ngāpuhi) in precious metal and a variety of other materials.
Frances is a knitter whose day job involves making beautiful things from metal. She is based in Whanganui.
Yarn is very nice, but a permanent souvenir of your Unwind experience in silver is a glorious thing too.
Ginger Mint
Nicola Duffy showcases her enormous skill with polymer clay via the wonders she produces under the Ginger Mint brand. Nicola has returned to Aotearoa after a stint in Australia and we are delighted to welcome her back to Unwind after her time away.
Holland Road Yarn Company
Holland Road Yarn Co is all about bright, delightful, joy-bringing yarn and craft supplies. They celebrate the connection between making and wellbeing, embracing the mistakes and making things up as you go. Tash Barneveld is the brains behind Holland Road, and she’s recently guided the business to new premises in Lower Hutt.
Miss Muffet’s Knits
Elisha Orchard is the face behind Miss Muffet’s Knits. She makes ceramic buttons by hand at home in Mayfield, New Zealand while being a stay at home mum.
Elisha has been producing ceramic buttons for over 4 years and provides the crafting market with high quality, naturally made and one of a kind unique ceramic buttons that are machine washable and durable which add a touch of something special to any creative endeavour.
Newtown House
Newtown House sources the best ‘woolly wool’ from around the world to give you delightful texture and colour choices. They support the craft and passion of raising heritage sheep breeds and the use (and refurbishment!) of traditional yarn-making factories – all in a most modern way. They celebrate those that do the hard years, and hard yards, to bring you joy in a unique way.
Purple Sprouting
Paula, the dye magician behind Purple Sprouting yarns, comes to us from oamaru. Her colourways are inspired by nature and story.
Shoe Box Sally
Shoebox sally is the brainchild of Julia Davies and is a cooperative venture between Julia and her trusty 50 year old Bernina sewing machine.
Made in Ōtepoti Dunedin the project bags range from small notion bags to large totes and lots in-between. They are fully lined and made from limited editions of quality fabrics with unusual and striking designs
The Yarn Queen
The Yarn Queen is run by mum & daughter duo Joy and Ruth.
Create something amazing that you wish existed with The Yarn Queen’s curated selection of highest quality local and hard-to-find yarn, tools, notions, patterns and books. They don’t stock anything we wouldn’t use ourselves.
Vintage Purls
Located in Ōtepoti, Dunedin, Vintage Purls has been dyeing, designing and serving the knit community for 15 years. VP specialises in finer weight yarns. Morag hand-dyes yarns, stocks some imported beauties and has a large range of ChiaoGoo needles and a variety of brands of knit accessories.
Morag is also the creator of Unwind Retreat.
Yarn Phase
Yarn Phase is the home of gorgeous hand dyed merino yarn. My yarn is sourced from The Grumpy Merino, located at the Grampians farm in Culverden NZ. The yarn is processed at Wild Earth Yarns in CHCH and hand dyed in small batches in my studio at home here in Rangiora. I have 4 and 8 ply weights. The yarn is 19.6 micro, super soft and squishy with zero skin irritation.
Yarn Therapy
Jo Campbell of Yarn Therapy loves to make yarn sing with the application of colour. She uses multi layered dyeing techniques that she has perfected over the past 15+ years to create colour stories that you’ll love to look at, on yarn bases that you’ll love to work with, and to wear.