We at Artfibers want to thank you all for a wonderful season and year. We are grateful for the good fortune of doing business with such inspiring people — like you! Please accept our warmest wishes for an excellent holiday season! New yarn Please meet BURL, a super chunky tweed that we dye in individual [...]
At last, knitting season is here. To celebrate, we have deals for you! Huge Yarn Clearance We have over 100 individual colors reduced up to 35%! The reductions are all posted to our online catalog (or go to www.artfibers.com, click catalog, then on the color finder line click closeouts). (You’ll find 6 pages of color [...]
Cool Artfibers end of summer sale – treat yourself! (ends 9/16, 2012) 50% off on 10 yard samples (limit 10). 15% off on all yarn purchases over $50. 10% off on all yarn purchases of $50 or less. Enter the promotional code art812 at checkout — we’ll notify you of the discounted amount in the [...]
Anemone in Anime! (tra la) Just imagine the potential with this: The ubiquitous Dr. Helen (a peripatetician we are told) strikes again with this hat-shaped diagram of the synapses self-organizing in her two-year-old’s head. Until her book about “Knitting with Tesla Coils” comes out (searching for a publisher), you can get a similar result with [...]
Dr. Helen’s Shawl Once upon a time a beautiful and brilliant young MD named Helen magically found time to do one of her very favorite things: knit. Being close to the world champion level for astonishingly complex knitting, the particular project that Helen chose, an exquisite lace shawl, was simply relaxing therapy. She loaned us [...]
“We can comprehend each other when we recognize firstly what difference we have, and the next to try to respect our difference mutually. We should have various measures, not only one. While we are living in a small world, we cannot know well ourselves as far as we have nothing to compare with.” — Chieko [...]
At Artfibers, our goal is to offer uniquely good value to our customers. Our web catalog contains several tools to help you make an informed buying decision. Estimator On every page in our catalog you will find an interactive estimator for that yarn. We built this ourselves over several years — a lot of care [...]
People often ask how we develop color concepts for yarn. In fact there are several paths that we follow. Life itself is the greatest inspiration, where color merges with underlying meaning. We may find a leaf or a pebble or peek through a fence at a garden, and this begins to shape a new yarn. [...]
We were living in a small French village in the deep South, near Spain. On the edge of town, surrounded by vineyards, was an 8th century church. It was squat and dark, looking for all the world like a stone barn. Most of the villagers never went there. One day there was a special event. [...]
Air Ecru is an imaginary yarn lover’s vehicle for flights of fancy. Our pilot is Captain Noelle, who this month finds color inspiration in places where light and water combine in heartfelt ways. Every seat is first class on Air Ecru, and we invite you to take off in a fully reclined position. Knitting needles [...]
