| Noro Yarns are an exciting range that is great for | | | | 1. Standard wool - England |
| hand knitting and creating interesting garments. We are | | | | 2. Falkland Wool - Falkland Islands |
| going to look at just who creates Noro yarns and | | | | 3. Polwarth Wool - Adelaide Australia |
| what they do to ensure the products they deliver are | | | | 4. Kid Mohair - Camdeboo, South Africa |
| of the highest quality. | | | | 5. Patagonia Wool – Patagonia, Argentina |
| Who makes Noro Yarns? | | | | 6. Alpaca - Peru |
| Eisaku Noro started a yarn company over 30 years | | | | 7. Cotton - Califonia, USA |
| ago in Aichi, Japan. The company products both hand | | | | 8. Ganpi - Japan |
| kitting yarns which are labelled as Noro as well as | | | | 9. Silk - China, Brazil, Vietnam, Japan and Uzbek |
| machine knitting yarns. The company developed its | | | | 10. Cashmere - China, Mongolia, Afghanistan and |
| own production technologies to create unique products. | | | | Kirghiz |
| Eisaku Noro believes that great yarn starts with great | | | | 11. Camel Angora - China |
| materials for that reason they source natural fibres of | | | | If you want more information on how the company |
| the highest quality that meet certain ecological | | | | sources their yarn and also what their beliefs are on |
| requirements. The result of selecting the best raw | | | | the ecological and ethical status of this then you can |
| materials and their production techniques is that you | | | | read this in their publication volume 26. |
| get yarns with extraordinary colours and wonderful | | | | Once the raw materials have been selected they |
| grip and texture which are unique throughout the world. | | | | need to create and choose the colours of the yarns. In |
| Noro Philosophy | | | | fact Eisaku Noro was a gifted painter however he |
| In regards the raw materials Noro has high standards | | | | decided to use his artistic technique to create yarns |
| on what they will use. The first thing they will do before | | | | rather than paintings. The result is an exciting, colourful |
| they use anything is visit the farm where it is produced. | | | | range of yarns that allow you to be really creative. |
| They will do this to see the environment that the | | | | Once the colours and materials have been selected |
| sheep are kept in. They believe that the environment | | | | then the yarn needs to be made. At Noro they do |
| can significantly affect the quality of the sheep's coat. | | | | most of the production by hand and not machines. The |
| They will examine this as well as any chemicals used | | | | idea of this is to keep the natural characteristics of the |
| and examine the fibres produced from the sheep. This | | | | fibres that can often be lost when they are machine |
| is quite an extensive process as they source yarn | | | | processed. They also only use chemicals where they |
| from all over the world however they believe it is | | | | are absolutely necessary to ensure the yarns remain |
| important to get the best materials to create the best | | | | natural. Noro also look to energy saving and so reduce |
| yarns. We have put together a list of the places that | | | | the amount of time that any energy using machines |
| they source their products from: | | | | are used. |