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Spring is around the corner! 🏵️🌿🌸⁠ I love celebrating this budding feeling that soon, really soon we will all be enjoying sunshine & flowers & warmer temperatures. This is a set of 3x 100g skeins of my Leicester High Twist yarn in Fingering. I used the colourways marzipan, meadow & fuchsia to capture this feeling […]

Our favorite super soft sockyarn is switching its name back to what it used to be: Luxury Socks! The last few years this yarn bases was called High Twist – but now we are switching back to the name we gave it originally: Luxury Socks – almost too good for just socks! The yarn base

Pre-orderes are running from now until 24 February – or until sold out. We have been planning this for quite a while now and finally, here they are: Alte Künste Yarn Clubs, or in German: die Woll-Kiste (the yarn-box). The yarn clubs are surprise packages of yarn that follow a colour theme. For our first

I am so excited to share the news on ouor charity dye for Harambee with you: Since we started back in May, we were able to donate 744€ from the charity dye “polepole” – and that means 31 kids of Kifili Vonwald school in Kenya got their health insurance paid for 1 year! This is

Today is day 6 of the Online International Fiber Festivals und we are visiting Germany! The start is right away with yarn from Alte Künste! So exited to be part of the OIFF this time and representing Germany with my botanical dyed yarn! Check out the videos of the OIFF. It is not only about

Hooray!!! They are finally available: Project bags from Alte Künste! Took me ages to find an ethical supplier of organic cotton bags! But here they are: GOTS certified, the print is organic as well & no child labour was involved! The bag has a size of 25x30cm (9.8×11.8″) with a cord to close at the

I am so excited that I can finally share a reconstruction project with you that I have a tiny part in: Last year I had the honour of dyeing the embroidery silk for the reconstruction of the St. Cuthbert maniple. The reconstruction project is done by Dr. Alexandra Manin, textile archaeologist and professional embroiderer, specialized

It is no big news that I am a huge fan of all kinds of Advent Calendars – that is how the Alte Künste Advent Calendar got started last year – this year there will even be 2 different versions of the Alte Künste Advent Calendar!And pre-orders are open now! Version 1 – the large