When buying from Orkney Angora you are trading with a small, artesan business where Tracy does everything by hand – washing the hanks, hand dyeing over 40 shades, drying the hanks then winding them on to cones then finally into small balls or ‘cakes’ of fluffy yarn.

The natural resource most freely available here on Sanday, off the north coast of Scotland, is wind and plenty of it. Orkney Angora makes use of clean, wind generated power for all their business activities such as the hand dyeing and the hank and ball winding operations.