Our wool is sourced directly from single origin sources, under ethical agreements with the farmer directly. Our suppliers are selected based on their quality of product as well as their treatment of the animals and sustainability practices.
Our raw fleeces are then exported to New Zealand for scouring at the Canterbury Wool Scours in Timaru, and then after scouring sent to Design Spun Mills in Napier.
Peter Chatterton has collectively owned and run the Design Spun Mill in Napier, New Zealand since the mid 1980’s. The product that Peter and his team produces is second to none, with the Worsted Milling Process producing soft, smooth and consistent yarn of various ply’s, twists and thread counts.
The fibre is then sent to Great Southern Yarns as naked yarn in large one kilogram, three kilometre long cones.
The cones are then separated into 100 gram hanks for dying, and eventual skeining for sale.

Our Colours
Great Southern Yarn is hand dyed. Our original colour ranges were created with the help of Gina Ermer, Anna Humphries, Rachael Laves, and Catherine Lee.
Catherine continues to assist both my husband and myself today with the current Great Southern Yarn range. We will be looking to add new colour ranges in the coming year that compliment who we are.
Our various hand-dyed colour ranges has been inspired and named after Australian female artists and their paintings, as well as our Snowy Mountain inspired range.
Our current ranges come in 25 solid and 13 variegated colours.