I dye yarn and sell it to people.
Let's be real, this is just going to be me (Aiden) posting glamourshots of yarn in the hopes you throw money at me.
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Played around with some yarn at the studio and ended up making some starter sets.
For when you can't be arsed to pick colors that work together: I've done it for you 😉
www.undercoverotter.com
People have become so used to artificially cheap products, opaque supply chains, and labour being treated as disposable that they've forgotten what it actually costs when a human being makes something.
If my yarn seems expensive compared to products made through anonymous supply chains, that's not because handmade yarn is overpriced.
It's because somebody, somewhere, is paying the difference.
When you buy from a small independent dyer, you're not paying for a label slapped onto something from Temu.
You're paying for years of learning a craft. Developing colourways. Testing recipes. Sourcing materials. Running a business. Making mistakes. Starting over. And physically making the thing.
The idea that handmade goods are expensive because makers are ripping people off is nonsense.
Most of us are charging what we need to charge to keep the lights on.
And frankly, comments like this are part of the reason craft keeps getting undervalued.
Especially when large companies suddenly start carrying hand-dyed yarns.
Sometimes manufacturers tell you who made it and under which conditions.
Often they don't.
Instead, you get a vague "Made in X" on the label and are left to fill in the blanks yourself.
Every skein I sell is dyed by hand, by me, in my studio.
I know exactly who made it.
I know exactly what the working conditions are.
I know exactly who is being underpaid.
It's me 🤡
And something I care deeply about: whether the people involved were paid fairly.
And yet we're also seeing an increasing amount of "hand-dyed yarn" where nobody seems entirely sure who actually dyed it.
Because while people are saying things like this, the fibre industry is actually moving more and more towards transparency, traceability, and independence.
People want to know where things come from.
Who made them.
How they were made.
