Hand wash gently in cool water with a mild wool detergent. Lay flat to dry. Avoid wringing or twisting to keep the fibers beautiful for years to come.

I purchase my bases from a handful of wholesale suppliers, most of the yarn is spun in Italy. I always look for wool that's ethically sourced, though I want to be upfront that "mulesing-free" claims in the wool industry are genuinely hard to verify with full certainty, and I don't want to overstate what I can guarantee there. I'm also in the process of phasing cashmere out of my bases: it's a beautiful fibre, but the environmental impact of cashmere goat farming on grassland ecosystems in Mongolia is significant, and it's not something I want to keep building the shop around.

I hand dye every skein myself in small batches using professional, high standard acid dyes. To cure and set the dye I use various types of acid. I don't use any other chemicals in my studio, no fillers, no shortcuts, just dye, acid, heat, and time. The heat comes from heaters that are solar powered. Because each batch is done by hand, small variations between skeins are part of the character of hand dyed yarn rather than a flaw.

Assigned pooling yarn is dyed with a main colour and a contrast section. The contrast colour triggers a cluster stitch, like a strawberry or tulip stitch, to create an intentional motif as you knit or crochet. This is different from planned pooling, which relies on matching your gauge exactly to a specific colour repeat. With assigned pooling, the stitch pattern does the work, so you don't need to fuss over exact gauge.

Yes. My assigned pooling patterns are designed to adapt to generally any assigned pooling yarn, not just one specific colourway. Different colourways will produce different but equally valid results.

Sometimes! It depends on the length of the contrast coloured section. If two colourways share the same contrast length, like Strawberry and Pineapple, you can absolutely swap them. Your strawberry motif will just come out in pineapple colours instead of strawberry ones, yellow and green rather than red and green, but the shape will still form perfectly.

Not every colourway can be swapped though. Some have a shorter or longer contrast section, and that will throw off the motif. If you're not sure whether two colourways are interchangeable, just send me a message at info@auridonyarns.com and I'll let you know.

Order your yarn wound into a ready-to-use cake, no untangling skeins required. Look for the item in the search bar and it to your cart alongside your yarn order.
It may add a small amount of time to processing, since it's done by hand before your order ships.

Not yet, but they're coming! I'm currently working on my first vegan base: a lyocell/tencel fingering-weight yarn, launching in some of my best selling assigned pooling colourways. I'm expecting it in store around October 2026. If it's well received, I'd love to expand into more vegan yarn types down the line, and I'm always happy to hear suggestions, so if there's a fibre or weight you'd love to see, send me a message at info@auridonyarns.com!