Highland Magic Fibre Arts

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One of the biggest surprises in natural dyeing is that colour doesn’t come from where you expect.The bright pink flowers...
29/05/2026

One of the biggest surprises in natural dyeing is that colour doesn’t come from where you expect.

The bright pink flowers of Himalayan balsam don’t make pink dye, but the leaves give a beautiful gold. Alder cones create rich browns. Dock seed heads give warm earthy shades, and their leaves a vivid spring green. And some of the most famous purple dyes in history came from lichens and snails, not flowers.

A note on lichen: please only collect windblown or already detached material. Many lichens grow extraordinarily slowly, and some populations may take decades to recover from harvesting.

The landscape around us is full of colour, but good foraging starts with stewardship.

Which of these have you tried?

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29/05/2026

One of the most common questions I hear is whether a blue flower makes blue dye.

Usually, the answer is no.

Natural dyes have a habit of defying expectations. Green leaves can become blue, roots can yield reds, and brightly coloured flowers often produce little colour at all. I’ve been reflecting on the surprises hidden in natural dyeing and how it changes the way I look at the landscape around me. 🌿🧪

Drilling holes into woven panels seemed unreasonable… until it didn’t 😄
28/05/2026

Drilling holes into woven panels seemed unreasonable… until it didn’t 😄

Hey! I need your suggestions for the GOAT of niddy noddies. I supposed I’d consider myself a niddy noddy power user, and...
27/05/2026

Hey! I need your suggestions for the GOAT of niddy noddies. I supposed I’d consider myself a niddy noddy power user, and have yet to find one that I don’t BREAK. Must haves: non-removable arms (I don’t need anything that comes apart for “convenience” or storage: there is no storing the niddy noddy when it is used almost daily 😂). 1.5-2m skein length. Either a pop-off stopper on one arm or an open arm for yarn removal. Let me know your faves in the comments!

A bridal shawl, ready for a Highland wedding this summer. Handwoven from raw silk, eri silk, my own Caledonia Aran, and ...
24/05/2026

A bridal shawl, ready for a Highland wedding this summer.

Handwoven from raw silk, eri silk, my own Caledonia Aran, and British wool bouclé. The embroidery is whitework in the Ayrshire tradition- a style that developed in Scotland in the early 1800s, originally worked in fine cotton for christening gowns and bridal veils. I’ve translated it into single-flock Heatherlea Black Cheviot laceweight, which gives the florals a softer quality than the historical cotton work.

One of a kind, available now on the website.

The shelves are suddenly very empty over here 🌿📦I’ve packed up all current physical stock and moved it off the website a...
23/05/2026

The shelves are suddenly very empty over here 🌿📦

I’ve packed up all current physical stock and moved it off the website ahead of taking it to Made in Stirling tomorrow for the summer months.

The Cairngorms Sunset and Wildflower collections are both heading that way- skein sets, handspun skeins, batts, and sampler boxes of beautiful, naturally dyed Scottish wool that’s been with me all the way from shearing.

Now that the boxes are packed, I’ll be turning my attention back toward the making side again: building new batt colourways, spinning more RSL, and preparing for a future online shop update later in the summer- I’ll be at the next Strathearn Arts Fair on Highland Games weekend in Crieff.

For now though, everything is ribboned, labelled, and ready for its road trip 🐑

Recently I learned that some of the new regional British wool branding initiatives don’t currently accommodate producers...
22/05/2026

Recently I learned that some of the new regional British wool branding initiatives don’t currently accommodate producers working outside standard depot pathways.

That sent me toward organisations like Farmer’s Yarn (exciting stuff!!) which support smaller direct-traceability producers working independently with British fibre.

It feels like an important moment in the wool world right now. New energy, new conversations, new regional identities, and growing public interest in provenance-led textiles.

My hope is that we continue building a fibre culture broad enough to support both larger national systems and the growing network of small-scale producers, makers, mills, dyers, educators, and shepherds working directly with local wool.

The more routes wool has into meaningful use, the stronger the ecosystem becomes.






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This very lush single-flock, handspun Ryeland yarn is headed up to in Fort William 😊 In a world of long-stapled takin...
21/05/2026

This very lush single-flock, handspun Ryeland yarn is headed up to in Fort William 😊

In a world of long-stapled taking the softness cake, Ryeland is a super curly short-stapled bouncy joy of a texture! Have you ever worked with Ryeland yarn?

20/05/2026

It’s been one of those months where everything and nothing happens all at once, disappointing and exciting in equal measure. I have two wee baby chaos potatoes joining me for yarn- and pattern-making this week though 🤗🐀🤍

Fresh stock headed to Drum Farm Gallery this week 🌸Large skeins of my cable-plied Reclaimed Scottish Lambswool paired wi...
20/05/2026

Fresh stock headed to Drum Farm Gallery this week 🌸

Large skeins of my cable-plied Reclaimed Scottish Lambswool paired with coordinating mini skein bundles for colourwork, weaving, visible mending, tapestry, and small treasures.

Repurposed Scottish wool from a closed mill in the Trossachs, hand-plied into a soft 4-ply cable and naturally dyed in the Highlands 🧶

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