NOOL
Distinctive yarns from India,
for independent yarn shops
நூல்
nūl
thread · yarn · spin
Made by many hands
India is full of yarns that rarely make it onto a yarn-shop shelf: nubbly local wools, wild silks flecked with specks of gold and black, and hardy indigenous cottons.
Spun in small quantities and rooted in particular places and ways of making, these are yarns with texture, character and stories.
Nool brings them to independent yarn shops across the USA and beyond—to stock, knit, crochet, weave and experiment with.
Plate 01
A pit loom in Kutch, Gujarat.
The yarns
01
Peduncle silk
Made from the stalk that holds the cocoon of the wild tussar silk moth. Naturally grey, flecked with white specks.
02
Tussar silk
A wild silk from the forests of eastern India. Grey, black, cream, and all the shades in between.
03
Khadi cotton
Indigenous Indian cotton, hand-spun for khadi — the cloth that became a symbol of India’s independence movement.
04
Mulberry silk
A workhorse silk that knits into the kind of garments you want to keep for yourself.
05
Muga silk
A rare silk from Assam with a natural, earthy golden sheen, believed to grow more lustrous with each wash.
06
Muga–Tussar blend
Two wild silks in one yarn — muga’s natural golden sheen softened by the grey, cream and darker tones of tussar.
07
Himalayan wool
Coming soon
Nool means thread.
Nool means thread in Tamil—an old word for one of the oldest crafts on the subcontinent. We work with yarns rooted in particular fibers, places and ways of making, and bring them to independent yarn shops across the USA and beyond.