unravel... a festival of yarnCelebrating all things yarn

Fri 21, Sat 22 & Sun 23 February 2020

Festival show guide & full programme

welcome! workshop schedulePlease check in at the Info Desk in the foyer 15 minutes before your workshop to let us know you’ve arrived.

Welcome yarn lovers to unravel... a festival of yarn! We are so excited to welcome you to Farnham and to this year’s festival – our biggest one yet. In Farnham we take pride in celebrating craft all through the year and love having you join us to celebrate yarn and all things yarn making: knitting, crochet, spinning, weaving and more!

New for 2020 we’ve created the Indie Maker Market, a market within our marketplace where you can discover new and smaller makers. We’ve also created the Inner Yarn Sanctum, a cosy place for you to hang out and socialise with your making, if you want to take some time away from the busy marketplace. You can find the Inner Yarn Sanctum in the Courtyard Kiln which will also be hosting our free Talks Series, sponsored by Garthenor Organic. We are grateful for their support.

Huge thanks to Jeanette Sloan and Lorna Hamilton-Brown of BIPOC in Fiber for being part of our exhibitor selection committee this year. Our curated marketplace is fit to burst with over 80 exhibitors, many of whom are brand new to the show alongside some of your favourites. We hope you’re ready to be overwhelmed by the yarny delights that await you. A further special thanks to our wonderful workshop sponsors. Their support means that many of this year’s workshops have yarn supplied – a great way for you to not only try something new, but discover a new yarn too.

Finally, be sure to check out some of the shortlisted submissions to our first ever design competition. The talent is second to none. The winning pattern, the Fireside Chat Cowl by Zanete Hussain, has been included in the show guide. If you love it as much as we do, you’ll want to cast on right away.

However you celebrate yarn, we hope you enjoy this year’s unravel festival as much as we’ve enjoyed putting it together.

Happy stitching!Allison, Jo & CarolineThe Craft Team at Farnham Maltings

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* CHECK your coat at our cloakroom next to the South West Kiln.

* DISCOVER over 80 exhibitors across the whole building.

* CAST ON for the winning design from our first ever design competition.

* WIND your new yarn in the foyer.

unravel 2020 top tips* SNACK on cake or light lunch fare in the Riverside Café or Foyer Bar.

* RELAX and enjoy our free talk series sponsored by Garthenor.

* ASK any questions about your visit at the info desk in the foyer or if you are neurodiverse and need access to our quiet space.

fri sat sun9:30am – 12:30pm

Brioche Masterclass with Renée CallahanEast Wing Dance Studio 1

Mandala Crochet Colourplay with Dedri UysEast Wing Dance Studio 2

Amp Up Your Instagram with Mieka JohnMeeting Room 1

1:30pm – 4:30pm

Two Colour Cables with Renée CallahanEast Wing Dance Studio 1

Roosimine with Aleks ByrdEast Wing Dance Studio 2

Mosaic Colourwork with Vincent DeslandesMeeting Room 1

9:30am – 12:30pm

Estonian Mittens with Aleks ByrdEast Wing Dance Studio 1

Create Your Own Modern Graphic Yoke with Maxim Cyr & Vincent DeslandesMeeting Room 2

Tuck Stitch Cowl with Mieka JohnMeeting Room 1

Introduction to Knitwear Design with Kate AtherleyEast Wing Dance Studio 2

1:30pm – 4:30pm

Design Your Own Colourwork Hat with Karie WestermannEast Wing Dance Studio 1

Intarsia with Sylvia Watts-CherryMeeting Room 2

Crochet a Shawl with Dedri UysEast Wing Dance Studio 2

Sideways Sweater Knitting with Susanne SommerMeeting Room 1

9:30am – 12:30pm

Knitting the Landscape with Karie WestermannEast Wing Dance Studio 1

Socks for Complete Beginners with Kate AtherleyEast Wing Dance Studio 2

Knit Your Own Statement Jewellery with Susanne SommerMeeting Room 1

1:30pm – 4:30pm

Finishing Techniques with Renée CallahanEast Wing Dance Studio 1

Beaded Colourwork with Jeanette SloanEast Wing Dance Studio 2

There’s still time to book on! Ask at the Box Office in the foyer about availability.

* TRY your hand at spinning with the West Surrey Guild of Spinners Weavers and Dyers in the foyer.

* LEARN from The Chain Gang in the marquee where Zoe and Kim can help you with your crochet.

garthenor talks seriesTake a break from the busy marketplace and retreat into the Inner Yarn Sanctum where our free talks series is sponsored by Garthenor Organic. The space is also a cosy place to relax with your projects and meet other like-minded makers during the festival.

Fri 21 February

Sat 22 February

Sun 23 February

2:00pm – 3:00pmMy Life in Knitwear with Erika Knight

11:00am – 12:00pmThis Golden Fleece: Unravelling Britain’s Woolly History with Esther Ritter

2:00pm – 3:00pmModern Men’s Knitting: Interview with Maxim Cyr and Vincent Deslandes

11:00am – 12:00pmMending Our Knits: From Secret Strengthening to Visible Mending with Anushka Tay

2:00pm – 3:00pmGetting Published as a Designer: Panel Discussion with Kate Atherley, Natalie Warner, and Karie Westermann

art installations

max alexander

Riverside Café

Max Alexander has been knitting moths since 2014 and has recreated over 50 different species in wool. Each of Max’s moths is hand knitted with Shetland Wool and the designs are as accurate as possible. Each moth is framed with small name labels in the style of a natural history display.

Max also designs and makes jewellery for knitters and crocheters. Her jewellery and cards can be found in the Maltings shop in the foyer.

Undercroft

Alison Ellen trained in textile design at Farnham Art College and worked first in hand-printed textiles. Alison approaches knitting as a way of constructing both a fabric and a 3D shape, exploring what the technique can do to alter the drape, thickness and stretch of the materials.

Alison takes inspiration from the surrounding countryside and gardens, and enjoys exploring shaping through the structure of knitting with an emphasis on construction.

Glass Box

Appropriating ancient nomadic traditions from her homeland Kazakhstan, Uriya Jurik works with found and organic media including sheep bones, felt and wool.

Drawing on wool and felt’s unique materiality, Uriya’s work embraces wool’s chaotic constitution as a metaphor for contemporary turmoil and makes palpable the holistic conception of the Universe which evolves through us - tiny, vulnerable wool fibres in the infinite interconnected tapestry of the world.

alison ellen uriya jurik

* COUNTESS ABLAZE’s parody art gallery display in the Great Hall with a Rebel Batch that includes The Girl With the Mini Skein Earring and Yarn Banksy.

* JOHN ARBON’s newest yarn - YARNADELIC - makes its debut at unravel in the Great Hall. This yarn is 100% Corriedale spun in Devon, UK.

* LANIVENDOLE are also debuting a new yarn spun from a rare breed 100% Italian mountain wool from the area of Trentino. Find them in the Great Hall.

* THE WINNING DESIGN and other shortlisted submissions from our first ever design competition on display in the Inner Yarn Sanctum.

don’t miss!

Our books empower knitters to upgrade their skills.

acknitwear.co.uk

Colours to fuel your rebellion.

countessablaze.co.uk

Hand dyed yarns, knitting kits, Addi needles and Clover notions.

debonnaireyarns.com

Our wonderful selection of yarns will dazzle and inspire your next project.

emilyfoulds.com

Naturally dyed and hand dyed art yarns from Folkestone.

folkestoneharbouryarn.com

Devon Mill producing fine quality yarns and fibre tops.

jarbon.com

The home of hand dyed yarn.

dustydimples.com

Arnall-Culliford Knitwear

Countess Ablaze Debonnaire

Dusty Dimples Emily Foulds Folkestone Harbour Yarn

John Arbon Textiles

Great HallExhibitors

London-based yarn haven for the conscious knitter.

knitwithattitude.com

KnitPro needles and accessories.

knitting4fun.com

Sustainable hand dyed carefully curated natural yarns.

ovisetcetera.com

Luxurious British wool - made to last.

kettleyarnco.co.uk

Exclusive, stylish knitting patterns to make with our own herd’s alpaca yarn.

purlalpacadesigns.com

Indie-dyed yarn specialising in unusual colours and speckles.

qingfibre.com

Brilliantly vivid hand dyed yarns and kits.

rainbowheirloom.com

Quarterly knitting magazine and pattern books for creative types.

pompommag.com

Kettle Yarn Co. Knit With Attitude Knitting 4 Fun

Ovis et Cetera Pom Pom Quarterly Purl Alpaca Designs Qing Fibre

Rainbow Heirloom

Small yarn company from Genoa, Italy specialising in yarns from local fibres.

lanivendole.com/en

Handknitting and crochet yarns that delight and inspire.

thefibreco.com

Ethical and eco-friendly yarn from a single flock in Bavaria.

rauwerk-wolle.de

Rauwerk

Lanivendole

The Fibre Co.

exhibitors80+ exhibitors are spread out in seven rooms across the whole building so take time to explore and make sure you don’t miss anything. Discover new and smaller makers in our new Indie Maker Market located in the Long Kiln Gallery. Use the legend below to quickly see what exhibitors are bringing to the festival:

Beautiful fibres and equipment for spinning, weaving and felt-making.

spincityshop.com

Spin City

Books / Patterns

Gifts

Jewellery

Info

Needles / Hooks

Notions

Spinning / Weaving

Yarn

Unique handmade sterling silver yarn tools and accessories.

lyn-roberts-design.com

Accessories and notions for yarn lovers.

idashouse.co.uk

Hand dyed, modern yarns with a neon twist.

spectrumfibre.co.uk

Original design knitting gifts, kits and accessories.

theknittinggiftshop.co.uk

Yarn with provenance spun on Grimsay, North Uist in the Outer Hebrides.

uistwool.com

Unusual yarn and fibre in many types and colours.

wools.co.uk

Indie yarn dyed in Surrey, England.

strawberryfieldsyarns.com

Lyn Roberts Design

Ida’s House

Spectrum Fibre

Strawberry Fields Yarn The Knitting Gift Shop Uist Wool Uppingham Yarns

Where yarn and graphics meet.

tillyflopdesigns.etsy.com

Hand dyed mohair and Wensleydale yarns from our farm in Northumberland.

whistlebare.com

Gorgeous hand dyed yarns, patterns and accessories.

theloveliestyarncompany.co.uk

Yorkshire spun cashmere yarns and patterns designed by Louisa Harding.

yarntelier.com

The Loveliest Yarn Co. TillyFlop Designs Whistlebare

Yarntelier

Weaving, spinning, British fibres, books, dyes and equipment.

adelaidewalker.co.uk

Dedicated to highlighting the work of Black, Indigenous and People of Colour.

bipocinfibre.com

Adleaide Walker BIPOC in Fiber

Cellar BarExhibitors

Hand spun yarns from our herd of Angora goats.

instagram.com/farmcrafts

Hooking using yarn – demonstrations of hooking over the show, plus kits.

hookedbydesign.co.uk

Beautiful yarns and accessories for knitting and crochet.

interknitcafe.etsy.com

Upcycled t-shirt and recycled cotton yarns.

creative-you.co.uk

Creative You

Farm Crafts Hooked By Design Interknit Cafe

Handmade slippers, kits, soles and other unique crafty stuff.

joestoes.co.uk

Joe’s Toes

Full range of ChiaoGoo needles and hooks, plus pattern books.

purlescence.co.uk

Purlescence

Made to measure, easy to follow, customisable knitting patterns.

madeandworn.co.uk

Made & Worn

UndercroftExhibitors

Hand dyed quality yarns from our own fine wool flocks.

thegreysheep.co.uk

The Grey Sheep Co.

Large hole beads for knitting, crochet, kumihimo and macrame.

moon-beads.com

Moon Beads

Merch for creatives! Wear your crafty title with pride.

stitcherstees.com

Unusual buttons, ribbons and other clothing accessories, personally sourced.

textilegarden.com

Soulful hand dyed yarn and eco-prints from Denmark.

thedanishdyelot.etsy.com

Knitting accessory bags in bautiful fabrics and eye catching combinations.

pinkhazel.eu

Children’s knitwear kits, hand dyed yarns and quiry knitters’ accessories.

theknittingshed.com

Pink Hazel

Stitchers Tees Textile Garden The Danish Dyelot The Knitting Shed

Handmade garments (Layercake) and hand dyed yarns (Tall Yarns and Five Moons).

theslowwardrobe.co.uk

The Slow Wardrobe

Knit Happy. Knit Yorkshire.

baaramewe.co.uk

Hand painted yarn inspired by Irish landscapes.

irish.artisan-yarn.com

Passionate specialists of natural fibre Scandinavian yarns.

midwinteryarns.com

Luxury British knitting and crochet brand specialising in beginner kits.

toftuk.com

Hand dyed self striping sock yarns.

theyarnbadger.com

Science inspired yarn and accessories raising money for charity.

madscientistyarns.com

Baa Ram Ewe Garthenor Organic Irish Artisan Yarn MAD Scientist Yarns

Midwinter Yarns TOFTThe Yarn Badger

Tindle StudioExhibitors

Silk yarns, yand dyed for luxury knitting and crochet.

willowknits.etsy.com

Willow Knits

Specialising in hand dyed yarns and luxury fibres. Home of Walcot Yarns.

ayarnstory.co.uk

A Yarn Story

Barley RoomExhibitors

Exploring the art of traditional stitch in jewellery design.

mahliqa.co.uk

Yarn that fuels the fire in your creative soul.

needleandfred.shop

Mahliqa Needle & Fred

Enjoy every stitch with our unique hand dyed yarns.

thewoolkitchen.com

Hand dyed British wool and luxury yarns.

triskelion.wales

The Wool Kitchen Triskelion Yarn

Professional quality fibre craft tools, from drop spindles to bobbins.

thewoodemporium.co.uk

IST Crafts

Feelgood yarns and weaving kits, fair trade.

wildwoven.etsy.com

Wildwoven

Luxury yarns hand dyed by Vykky MacIntosh.

westgreenloftyarns.com

West Green Loft Yarns

Certified organic, breed specific yarns in undyed and saturated dyed shades.

garthenor.com

Vibrant and vivid, luxury hand dyed yarns and fibres.

easyknits.co.uk

A small family run fibre mill specialising in alpaca and alpaca blended fibres.

thebordermill.co.uk

Balls of pure wool and vintage textile treasures.

sealeycottage.com

Providing science fiction and fantasy yarns, your geeky yarn companion.

thirdvaultyarns.com

Luxurious, sustainable, ethically sourced handknitting yarns and designs.

mrsmoon.co.uk

British wool dyed with foraged plants and botanical extracts.

skeinheroine.com

Easyknits

Mrs Moon The Border MillEliza Conway

Third Vault Yarns

Skein Heroine

TanneryExhibitors

Hand dyed exclusive British yarns in rich colours.

marinaskua.com

Craft themed, quirky illustraions, art cards and prints.

salinajaneart.com

Marina Skua Salina Jane Art

Big, bold, loud and proud. Hand spun, hand dyed yarn with serious attitude.

wulla.co.uk

Wulla

A selection of insanely colourful Latvian dundaga wool.

80skeins.co.uk

80 Skeins

Long Kiln RoomExhibitors

The Indie Maker Market

Ethically home grown angora fibre, yarns and gifts.

bigwigsangora.co.uk

Handmade porcelain buttons, brooches and cards.

cbceramics.co.uk

Bigwigs Angora

Caroline Barnes Ceramics

Woolly project and notions bags made in Edinburgh.

woollyoriginals.com

Woolly Originals

South West Kiln Exhibitors

Ethically sourced hand dyed yarn which will rock your world.

blackelephant.uk

Black Elephant

Discerning craft hoarders of a collection of yarn, books and notions.

crossandwoods.com

Beautifully presented hand dyed self-striping sock yarn cakes.

dragonhillstudio.co.uk

Cross & Woods

Dragonhill Studio

Naturally hand dyed yarns in the Burren, Ireland.

sionnachyarns.com

Sionnach Yarns

Contemporary crochet patterns, modern shapes, yarns and unique construction.

thecrochetchain.co.uk

Unique crochet kits including cute characters, puppets and decorations.

thecrochetcraftco.co.uk

Hand dyed yarns, inspired by nature.

tedknitsuk.etsy.com

Ted Knits UK The Crochet Chain The Crochet Craft Co.

Kits and tools to inspire creative making.

thesewcialcircle.com

The Sewcial Circle

Hand dyed yarn from the heart of the city.

theurbanpurl.com

The Urban Purl

Yarn and other nice things dyed with nature.

travaandwool.bigcartel.com

Trava & Wool

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80 SkeinsA Yarn StoryAdelaide WalkerArnall-Culliford KnitwearBaa Ram EweBigwigs AngoraBIPOC in FiberBlack ElephantCaroline Barnes CeramicsCountess AblazeCreative YouCross & WoodsDebonnaireDragonhill StudioDusty DimplesEasyknitsEliza ConwayEmily FouldsFarm CraftsFolkestone Harbour YarnGarthenor OrganicHooked by DesignIda’s HouseInterknit CafeIrish Artisan YarnIST CraftsJoe’s ToesJohn Arbon TextilesKettle Yarn Co.Knit With AttitudeKnitting 4 FunLanivendoleLyn Roberts DesignsMAD Scientist YarnsMade & WornMahliqaMarina SkuaMidwinter YarnsMoon BeadsMrs MoonNeedle & FredOvis et CeteraPink HazelPom Pom Quarterly

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Have you found some lovely new yarn? Do you want to cast on right away?

Use our DIY winding station in the foyer!

Special thanks to Ida’s House for providing swifts for everyone to use. Visit Ida’s House in the Cellar Bar if you’d like to get your own.

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