Welcome to Moulin Yarns
Hello, and thank you for visiting the website.
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I dye yarn in small batches at home near Pitlochry in Highland Perthshire. You can browse my yarns in the online shop and you can also visit the studio during the year between April and the end of September.
Check out the opening hours and events calendar to find out where and when you can give the yarns a squish in person.
The images in the shop are as true to the colours as photographs and screens allow but they are accurate as possible. It is always better to see and feel yarn to appreciate it properly!
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About Moulin Yarns
Our Background
Moulin Yarns started in 2012 as a hobby. I was watching television one evening when my wife, who was knitting, reading and watching the telly, suggested that I should find a hobby that I could do while sitting in front of the TV.
I didn't think anything of it until a few weeks later we were in a craft shop and two things caught my eye. The shop ran classes in different crafts and I signed up for a day class in weaving on a rigid heddle loom. The second thing I saw was undyed yarn and small pots of dye powder, so I bought some and experimented painting the yarn with splashes of colour. I was hooked!!
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​I enjoyed learning to weave and started weaving in the evenings, but I didn't do much more dyeing until a bit later. We were at a large craft fair and there was someone selling large packs of undyed yarn so I bought some, but that's not all! I saw a man spinning yarn with a couple of pieces of wood - it was a bogway spinner. Yes, I had give it a try! So, from no hobbies I was now weaving, dyeing and giving spinning a go, (badly to begin with.)
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As I got a bit better at the spinning I discovered drop spindles and invested in some. By this point I was weaving scarves, spinning yarn and dyeing yarn so had to do something with them. I found myself selling at small, local craft fairs. That continued for a bit until a few yarn festivals started happening. We had attended the Edinburgh Yarn Festival every year and that spawned some others, including in Perth, Aberdeen and Inverness, all of which I was lucky enough to be a vendor at.
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I was now concentrating on the dyeing and spinning more than weaving and, as with most hobbies they take over your life! I got a spinning wheel, allowing me to spin larger amounts of yarn and being able demonstrate spinning at craft fairs certainly draws people. Then in 2020 the pandemic struck and no craft fairs took place for almost a year.
At this point I built a summer house in the garden and when lockdown was lifted and people were able to travel again I began to open the summer house as a local yarn shop. Every year since I have been having customers coming from all over the world to my small yarn studio.
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