Blacker Yarns

How I Left Corporate Life To Start A Yarn Business

March 20th, 2019
Blacker Yarns
Founder, Blacker Yarns
$13K
revenue/mo
1
Founders
16
Employees
Blacker Yarns
from England, United Kingdom
started September 2005
$13,000
revenue/mo
1
Founders
16
Employees
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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

I am Sue Blacker, Managing Director of Blacker Sheep Limited.

Our business spins the wool from sheep, goats and alpacas to make yarns for people who produce the fibre themselves and take it back to make and market yarn-based goods through The Natural Fibre Company and we also have also our own branded Blacker Yarns knitting and crochet yarns.

We sell Blacker Yarns mainly direct through our online shop and also through selected stockists across the world. Over half of our Blacker Yarn sales are to countries outside the UK and half of those are into the USA so we are very much an international business.

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What's your backstory and how did you come up with the idea?

I originally was a customer of our Natural Fibre Company spinning service, where I...

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