Noro Yarns - Hand made by dedicated Japanese artisans who love their work. These are OUR kind of people!

Noro makes their products the genuine, old-fashioned way. At each stage, crafters actually handle the materials, passing on their caring vibrations that carry through your hands to the person who wears your lovely garment.

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At the Noro mill, individuals select the raw wool, keeping only the finest. The skill of selecting and blending raw wools reaches back over generations of proud craftspeople. Yarn blends are created to give you fibers of strength, loft and hand. Each batch, and thus each skein is a bit different, and a true pleasure to knit.

Part of the spinning process requires that individuals pick out impurities from the raw wool so that the fibers are not weakened or broken. Noro avoids the chemical cleaners in favor of the natural human eyes and hands. In fact, you might occasionally find a tiny bit of organic matter spun into the yarns, that is part of the unique nature of Noro yarns.

Years of research go into selecting dyes for your colors. Sometimes the old traditional dyes work better than newer ones, or vice versa. Brightness, richness and long life without fading are the dye characteristics demanded by Noro experts. WE say all humanity seeks these same desirable qualities.

Noro spins its strands using the most advanced tools on the planet: human fingertips. Machines cannot care for the fiber, do not respect the live nature of wool.

No two sheep are alike, no two wools are the same, and no two humans weigh, align, draw and spin the same. We expect variations in width and tightness and strength and we compensate for them. We take the infinite variety of Nature and pass it into the life and spirit of our creations. The look says "natural" and the feel whispers "life".

Do not be surprised to find a knot or two in your skein of handspun Noro. Natural processes do not crank out exact lengths and weights the way machines can churn out stuff by the mile and the kilometer. A Noro yarn strand ends when the Fates decide, and the Noro fingertips must splice and carry onward. You, the Craft Goddess, bend the Fates to your own will and you bury the knot deep inside the pattern; thus you invest one more natural variation into your living product.

Working with Noro fibers is working with Life itself, working with infused love, dedication and pride, and pouring it through your fingertips into your craftwork.