Highland Colours

Highland Colours Natural plant dyed hand-spun yarn from the British Isles. Art-yarn, plant dyed locks and fibre, and vintage weaving mill bobbins.

Check out my website https://www.highlandcolours.com/ Highland Colours is a small home business. Everything is made by hand from mainly local materials. I dye my local wool with local plants that grow around me and some I buy in from elsewhere. Handspun yarn is spun by me on my spinning wheel. I particularly enjoy creating art-yarn and lockspun yarns because it's one-off and unlike anything that c

an be produced commercially. I also produce fibres and locks for hand spinners, felters and doll makers, in my same natural plant colours. Everything is packaged and mailed in biodegradable packaging.

Knitted chess set full video just uploaded on my channel. Link in bio.
29/05/2026

Knitted chess set full video just uploaded on my channel. Link in bio.





Creamy Shetland tapestry or rug yarn, handspun. I love the subtle colours of Shetland. This fleece has fawn undertones t...
16/04/2026

Creamy Shetland tapestry or rug yarn, handspun. I love the subtle colours of Shetland. This fleece has fawn undertones to the butt ends of some of the locks. In my shop now.

My most recent rigid heddle scarf, woven using my handspun, from a beautiful shetland fleece. I spun this wool lock by l...
08/04/2026

My most recent rigid heddle scarf, woven using my handspun, from a beautiful shetland fleece. I spun this wool lock by lock without carding, which is my favourite way to spin yarn.

New video just out, investigating what a wool picker will do for me? After 45 years of hand spinning i finally bought on...
24/03/2026

New video just out, investigating what a wool picker will do for me? After 45 years of hand spinning i finally bought one. But does it do what i hope it will?

Hand spun super bulky shetland for peg looms or rugs, love these natural greys.
20/03/2026

Hand spun super bulky shetland for peg looms or rugs, love these natural greys.

New yarn today, all natural dyes, thick thin, rainbow, soft spongy and bulky, for a knobbly knitting project. Loved spin...
19/03/2026

New yarn today, all natural dyes, thick thin, rainbow, soft spongy and bulky, for a knobbly knitting project. Loved spinning this.

My latest handspun, shetland 80%, sari silk 20% plant dyed with indigo (not the sari silk of course!)
14/01/2026

My latest handspun, shetland 80%, sari silk 20% plant dyed with indigo (not the sari silk of course!)

Handspun, handwoven scarf. Using my trusted Brother drum carder again, i blended up merino, sari silk, camel and silk. M...
05/01/2026

Handspun, handwoven scarf. Using my trusted Brother drum carder again, i blended up merino, sari silk, camel and silk. Merino dyed with a variety of plant dyes. I love simple rigid heddle plain weave and i love my small samplet Ashford loom. So easily stowed when not in use. Ive made a lot of these scarves over the years. The key is keeping ALL the yarn super soft.




I had a lot of fun creating the yarn for this version of BBK (reversible) Fishermans Hat 2.0, by Louis Boria. The ribbed...
02/01/2026

I had a lot of fun creating the yarn for this version of BBK (reversible) Fishermans Hat 2.0, by Louis Boria. The ribbed brim is knitted in grey dk bluefaced leicester over dyed with indigo, and the main part is hand spun merino / shetland /sari silk /camel &white silk, all blended very well on my brother electric drum carder (thank you Brother, wonderful machine) and spun to a dk weight 2 ply yarn. The merino and shetland first dyed with buckthorn then indigo for my favourite teal orsea green blue you might call it. I knitted the 100 stitch cast on size, and was worried it might be tight, but its perfect. Getting ready for my second...

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