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Melodie Nicolle of Happy Melodie is a textile artist who lives in Caen, a delightful city in Normandy nicknamed “the city of 100 spires”. Melodie has adopted a vegan lifestyle which, from the start, has also influenced her approach to her work. In fa…
Do you want to have a go at hand spinning but aren’t sure where to begin? Or do you already have some experience with this artform but are looking for more ideas or tricks? Well then, we are here to help because today we are going to explain how to m…
Does creating an artistic slub yarn seem impossible to you? Not if Sammie Knight, aka Koke Me Designs is helping you, the greatest expert in the sector and textile artist of excellence. Sammie will guide you step by step in the creation of two slub y…
Today we have special guest Sammie Knight, aka Koke Me Designs, with us to help ecplain a tutorial on how to create an artistic yarn. Sammie has created, not just a simple tutorial, but a small and highly useful practical guide to hand spinning. This…
Do you wish to make a handmade yarn, but have no clue where to begin? Well, you have come to the right place! In fact, with this article we will try to explain the technique and the various tools necessary to bring to life artistic yarns that are tr…
Hand spinning is a very fascinating and highly complex artisan technique. It is essential to have a profound knowledge of the material, namely the fiber, but also to be well versed on a technical level. There are not many hand spinners around and it …
What is a yarn count?
The yarn count expresses the thickness of the yarn. So why do we use this figure instead of just measuring its diameter or “height” with an ordinary ruler? Well, that’s because even though the structure of the yarns are n…
A new DHG mood is now online. This time we embarked on a real journey (literally) that brought us to where this Mood was inspired: Genoa, or Ze:na as the people from there call it. Accompanying us were Stefania and Federi…
Stefania and Federica a.k.a. LanivendoleTwo friends who with a wheel and wool skeins, not only create unique handmade yarns but also life stories, theirs. As the wheel rotates and their fingers regulate fibre, their days start to take shape too. Ho…
Victoria Manganiello at hands with temperasOur Tempera Collection is one of our most loved colour collections. Our extra fine merino wool tops are available in these colours, they have extraordinary shades and are inspired by famous paintings, moreov…
DHG Silk CocoonsDHG Silk cocoons: I’d been wanting to try them for a while. I had a feeling that the results would be amazing. And I was right: as soon as I took them in my hands I realized that, unlike the more common Silk Tops, silk cocoons woul…
For those of you who have known us for a long time, know that DHG was born “almost as a joke” after, in 2007, I happened upon two felters in Florence.Intrigued by this technique that I wasn’t familiar with, I thought that our dyeing house could offer…
