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Faroese Yarn - pure wool from the Faroe Islands.

Faroese Yarn is one of those rare yarns that feels completely connected to where it comes from.

The wool comes from the Faroe Islands - from one of Europe’s oldest sheep breeds, the North European short-tailed sheep. Descended from sheep brought north by the Vikings more than 1,200 years ago, these small, intelligent sheep still roam freely between mountains and sea, living outdoors year-round in one of the harshest and most beautiful landscapes in the world.

You can feel that environment in the yarn.

This particular yarn has already found its way to remarkable places – among them, King Frederik of Denmark who owns a jacket made if it, and the knitwear label Guðrun & Guðrun (one of our fav brands!).

This is not buttery-soft merino. Faroese wool has character. It’s long-fibered, lanolin-rich, naturally weather resistant, and deeply resilient. The yarn has a slightly dry, airy hand with real integrity and bounce. The kind of wool that blooms beautifully with wear and becomes better and better over time.

This is the sort of wool that will prickle your skin when you first wear it (so not for the very sensitive). Let it rest on your skin for 10-15 minutes: the wool fibres naturally adjust to your body temperature, causing them to bend and soften slightly as they warm up.

It creates fabric with structure, definition and life. Texture stitches look incredible. Colourwork holds beautifully. Cables stay crisp. And because the fibre has proper elasticity and strength, garments keep their shape exceptionally well over time.

There’s also something incredibly satisfying about knitting with a yarn that still feels honest and elemental. Slightly wild. Proper wool.

The sheep are shorn collectively each summer on the islands using traditional hand shears, and the founders, Anja and Francesco, are there in the pens themselves alongside local farmers, neighbours and friends. The fibre is then processed slowly and carefully in specialised German mills that understand how to preserve the qualities that make this wool so special.

For a long time, Faroese wool was used almost exclusively for personal garments within island communities. Faroese Yarn began with the idea that this extraordinary fibre deserved to be valued properly again - not commodified, not over-processed, and not stripped of its identity.

The result is a yarn that feels rare in the best possible way: grounded, durable, very wearable, and full of provenance.

This is yarn for knitters who love wool with substance and soul. The kind of yarn that makes you slow down a little and enjoy the process.
Ingredients:
100% Faroese Wool

Length:
300m (328 yds)

Weight:
100g

Gauge:
DK
19 sts x 24 rows on 4.00 - 4.50mm needles (US 6 - 7)
Faroese Yarn was founded by Anja and Francesco in Møgeltønder, in the Danish-German border region, with a very simple but powerful idea: to restore value and meaning to the exceptional wool of the Faroe Islands - their second home.

For generations, Faroese wool was used mainly for personal needs within island communities. While the sheep themselves remained largely unchanged over centuries, much of the wider world moved towards softer, faster, more commercial wool production.

Faroese Yarn chose a different path.

They work directly with people on the islands - many of whom are close friends and neighbours - and remain deeply involved in every stage of the process, from shearing through to spinning.

The sheep roam freely across steep mountainsides between the North Atlantic sea and dramatic cliffs, shaped by salt air, weather and landscape. During summer shearing, communities gather together in the traditional way: sheep are calmly shorn by hand, stories are shared, coffee and pancakes passed around, and generations of knowledge quietly continue.

That sense of care and continuity runs through the yarn itself.

Until recently, the yarn itself was not available separately, only through finished garments and textiles. Tribe Yarns is incredibly honoured to be one of a very small number of carefully selected shops chosen to offer these yarns independently.

This is wool with history. Wool with place. Wool that still feels connected to the land and people it comes from.

Faroese Yarn

Faroese Yarn