Noro Yarns

Noro yarns are an exciting area that is perfect for hand knitting and create interesting clothes. We will look at that ensures Noro yarn, and what they do to the products they deliver to guarantee the highest quality.

Who does Noro yarn?

Eisaku Noro yarn started a company 30 years ago in Aichi, Japan. The products of the company, based kitting yarns are called Noro yarn and machine knitting. The company developed its own production technology to create unique products. Eisaku Noro yarn begins to think a lot of great material, why they are of the highest quality natural fibers to buy that meet certain environmental requirements. The result of choosing the best raw materials and production techniques that you thread with extraordinary colors and beautiful texture and grip that is unique in the world to gain.

Noro Philosophy

Regarding commodity Noro has high standards for what they want. The first thing they will do before they use anything, a visit to the farm where it was produced. They do this in view of the environment they are kept in. They see that the environment is significantly affecting the quality of sheep milk fur. They will check this and uses no chemicals and the fibers produced from sheep to investigate. This is a very extensive process that they buy yarn from around the world, but they believe it is important to provide the best materials to make the best yarns. We have compiled a list of places they source their goods from:

Standard first wool - England

2nd Falkland Wool - Falkland Islands

3rd Polwarth Wool - Adelaide Australia

4th Kid Mohair - Cameo, South Africa

5th Patagonia Wool - Patagonia, Argentina

6th Alpaca - Peru

7th Cotton - California, USA

8th Gape - Japan

9th Silk - China, Brazil, Vietnam, Japan and Uzbekistan

10th Cashmere - China, Mongolia, Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan

11th Camel Angora - China

Want to learn more about how the company sources their nets, and also what their faith is on ecological and ethical status of these you can read in their publication 26th Volume

If raw materials are selected, they must create and choose the colors of the yarn. Actually Eisaku Noro was a gifted painter, but he decided to put his artistic technique for creating threads instead of paintings. The result is an exciting, colorful variety of yarn, which allows you to be really creative.

When the colors and materials are chosen as the yarn to be done. Noro on them most of the production by hand and not machines. The idea is to keep the natural properties of the fibers, which are often lost when the machine is discussed. They also only use chemicals when absolutely necessary to ensure continued natural yarn. Noro also look at saving energy and thus the amount of time that all energy-consuming machinery used.