I N D I E . Y A R N . D Y E R
About
Pigment & Ply
HAND DYED . CURATED COLOUR . INSPIRED BY ART
Hi, I'm Jess!
My love for knitting started at a really young age, taught by my Mum, like many of you I'm sure! This passion continued through my school years and lead me to study Knitwear at University. I attended London College of Fashion followed by Kingston University. Since graduating in 2014 I worked as a Knitwear Technician at two top London Universities.
However I found myself missing designing for a purpose so I started a knitted accessories brand run out of my now dye studio. Using my industrial knitting machine - called Stella- a huge piece of kit over 2 metres wide and completely hand operated I could never find the right yarns so I began dying them myself, and then Pigment & Ply was born!
Our Process
FROM MY SKETCHBOOK . IN TO THE DYE POT . TO YOUR HANDS
Inspired by sketchbooks, moodboards and photos I have taken I start by creating a mood board. I then usually begin designing with watercolours into notebooks and on scrap pieces of paper I have lying around. From these ideas, some good, some not! I begin to recreate the colour onto yarns and hopefully with a few tweaks these become the colourways you see avaliable in my shop!
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We specify that our merino comes from farms that do no practicing mulesing. Therefore all our yarns are mulesing free.
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Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any queries!
