BC Garn Yarn

BC Garn began in 1972 with Bo Carstensen, who came by it honestly – his mother was a weaver, his father traded rug wool, and she had already started having her own yarns made because she couldn't find the colours she wanted.

In 2018 Bo and Marianna retired and handed the company to Britta and Carsten Kremke – whose initials, happily, still fit. Britta learned to knit at eight in her mother's yarn shop, and by twenty-one she had a shop of her own.

They work in natural fibre only: wool, silk, cotton and linen, much of it organic and certified to the Global Organic Textile Standard – which follows the fibre the whole way, from the welfare of the animals to the dyes, the wastewater, and fair pay for everyone whose hands it passes through.