The twist
Does the stitch stay crisp?
Spun too loosely, a yarn goes flat under the needle and the stitch loses its edge. We look for yarns that hold their definition row after row.
About
Magnolia Yarns is a short shelf rather than a long catalogue: a handful of houses we trust, kept in stock in France, and sent wherever you knit.
Mohair, Silk, Alpaca, Merino, Cashmere, Angora, Linen, Cotton, Raffia
The idea
We would rather carry fewer yarns and know each one by touch. A short shelf, kept in France, where nothing is here to fill a gap.
yarns
Stars – mohair merino Yarn · G01
touch
Harmony · 231
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Raffia · 105F ivory
The selection
We would rather carry fewer yarns and stand behind every one of them. Each fibre on these shelves has been chosen for its quality, and each house we work with has earned its place beside the others. Nothing is here to fill a gap.
What we look for in a yarn
Before a yarn joins the shelf, it has to pass three tests. None of them shows in a photograph, which is exactly why we run them for you.
Does the stitch stay crisp?
Spun too loosely, a yarn goes flat under the needle and the stitch loses its edge. We look for yarns that hold their definition row after row.
Is it soft against the skin?
How a fibre feels running through your fingers, long before it becomes a garment. It is the part no photograph can tell you, so we do the touching for you.
Will it still look right next winter?
Colour that holds and a fabric that survives washing. The qualities you only discover months later are the ones we check first.
Up close
A screen flattens a yarn. The loupe gives back a little of what gets lost: the halo of a fibre, the sheen of the twist, the way one strand wraps around the next. The rest we check by hand, before a yarn ever reaches the shelf.
Move the loupe across the skein
Fibre by fibre
An animal, a plant, a cocoon: where a fibre starts tells you how it will behave on the needles, and long after the last row.
From the Angora goat
Long, lustrous hair that catches the light and gives a knit its soft halo. Very warm for its weight, and often spun with silk to keep it smooth.
7 yarnsThe colour wall
Every colour we carry, sorted from red to violet, then the neutrals. Each skein is photographed the same way, so you can compare them honestly. Pick one to open its yarn.
The houses we carry
A yarn you can see is a yarn we can send.
Shipped from France
Every parcel leaves the same shelves in France. One warehouse, one tracking number, and a plane for wherever you happen to be knitting.
Every yarn in the shop sits in our warehouse in France. What you see here is what we have.
Your whole order leaves together from that single shelf, never split between suppliers.
One tracking number follows it from our door to yours, wherever you are knitting.
Delivery times stay reasonable wherever it is going, without the long wait of ordering yarn from abroad.
We deliver to
Inspiration
Finished pieces, knitted and crocheted in the yarns we keep on our shelves.
And the next stitch is yours.
