West Cork, Ireland
Colour that begins in landscape and arrives as abstraction.
Hand-dyed yarn, made in small batches on the Atlantic coast for ten years.
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What we dye
Designed in families. Sold by the skein.
Every colour is worked out alongside its neighbours, so a shade you buy on its own still belongs to something. Take one skein, or take the whole palette it came from.
Create your own PaletteCollections
All collections →Four palettes, each dyed as a set. Released a few times a year and retired when they are gone.
Ten years of dyeing by hand in West Cork
Every skein is dyed by hand in our studio here, in small batches, to recipes we have been refining for ten years. The palette comes from one stretch of coast, looked at closely and for a long time — which is why it hangs together, and why a dyer whose colour sense matches your own is worth the looking.
Get to know usI mix every recipe here myself and dye it in small batches, so I know what each one does on each base. If a skein is not right, it does not leave the studio.
Caroline · founder and dyer
Knit your everyday — our bases
Wild Carrot, October
The hedgerows here go rust and gold for about three weeks a year. Every recipe starts this way — Atlantic light, field observation, then months at the dye pots getting it to hold.
Shop Golddust
Knitted in our bases
Sweaters, shawls and cardigans made in LITLG yarn. Each one links to the base it was knitted in.
First dibs on new colourways
New dyelots go out to the list before they go on the site. One email a fortnight, no noise.
Life in the Long Grass · West Cork, Ireland