Urth Yarns

The name comes from Urth Caffe, a Los Angeles café one of the founders can't stay away from. He wanted a brand that gave something back to the earth, and there the name was, already waiting.

Every collection is hand-dyed in Turkey, in the brand's own studios in Mersin and Istanbul – crafted meticulously by the hands of talented women. One range is coloured with nothing but fruits, nuts and roots: pomegranate shells, acorns, grape leaves, boiled up in cauldrons and stirred like soup until the water gives up its colour. A portion of every sale goes to Trees for the Future, planting forest gardens on worn-out land in Africa.

Because they dye in small batches, dye lots can't be tracked – so grab everything for your project in one go. Nothing in nature is perfect, and yet everything is: that's the spirit they dye in.