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A Very Festive Cast-On
A Very Festive Cast-On We just love a colourwork sock – satisfying, quick and surprisingly simple, but add a jolly seasonal character and we’re sold. Are you knitting some festive...
A Very Festive Cast-On
A Very Festive Cast-On We just love a colourwork sock – satisfying, quick and surprisingly simple, but add a jolly seasonal character and we’re sold. Are you knitting some festive...

A Chat with Fay Dashper Hughes
If you haven’t already met, we’d like to introduce you to Fay Dashper Hughes, one of the most prolific and busiest designers we’ve met, and she’s also a very talented...
A Chat with Fay Dashper Hughes
If you haven’t already met, we’d like to introduce you to Fay Dashper Hughes, one of the most prolific and busiest designers we’ve met, and she’s also a very talented...

Gift Guide 2024
The Jarbon 2024 Official Christmas Gift Guide Buying presents at this time of year is enough to send even the calmest among us into a proper Christmas panic! To avoid...
Gift Guide 2024
The Jarbon 2024 Official Christmas Gift Guide Buying presents at this time of year is enough to send even the calmest among us into a proper Christmas panic! To avoid...

Meet the Mill Folk — Lauren
Lauren is part of our Marketing team, working from home in the West Midlands. She can sometimes be found at our shows or at the mill as well, but is...
Meet the Mill Folk — Lauren
Lauren is part of our Marketing team, working from home in the West Midlands. She can sometimes be found at our shows or at the mill as well, but is...

Marina Skua on her new pattern and Appledore co...
We’ve loved collaborating with the fabulous Marina Skua on the new, limited edition shade of Appledore Aran and Appledore Tops, ‘Fallen Leaf’. It perfectly encapsulates this time of year and...
Marina Skua on her new pattern and Appledore co...
We’ve loved collaborating with the fabulous Marina Skua on the new, limited edition shade of Appledore Aran and Appledore Tops, ‘Fallen Leaf’. It perfectly encapsulates this time of year and...

Introducing Appledore Heirloom Blankets
An Introduction to Our New Appledore Heirloom Blankets Who doesn’t love to get cosy – especially this time of year? The nights are drawing in, the trees are losing their...
Introducing Appledore Heirloom Blankets
An Introduction to Our New Appledore Heirloom Blankets Who doesn’t love to get cosy – especially this time of year? The nights are drawing in, the trees are losing their...

Meet the Mill Folk — Ginette
Ginette packs all our orders here at the Mill – if you’ve ever ordered from us you’ve probably had a postcard from her! How long have you been working at...
Meet the Mill Folk — Ginette
Ginette packs all our orders here at the Mill – if you’ve ever ordered from us you’ve probably had a postcard from her! How long have you been working at...

Meet the Mill Folk — Helena
Helena is our Mill Director, having taken over running the company from John and Juliet in 2022. She has been here much longer than that though, originally joining the company...
Meet the Mill Folk — Helena
Helena is our Mill Director, having taken over running the company from John and Juliet in 2022. She has been here much longer than that though, originally joining the company...

Vests and Slipovers for Autumnal Layering
We’re not quite ready to don our super-cosy Appledore Aran sweaters just yet (a good job, too — we’ve only just launched it so we’re still knitting many of them!)...
Vests and Slipovers for Autumnal Layering
We’re not quite ready to don our super-cosy Appledore Aran sweaters just yet (a good job, too — we’ve only just launched it so we’re still knitting many of them!)...

A Chat with Designer Jule Kebelmann
We’d like to introduce you to Jule Keblemann, the designer behind the stunning Hops and Meadow Shawl in our Annual (issue four). Not only does Jule create fabulous patterns, she...
A Chat with Designer Jule Kebelmann
We’d like to introduce you to Jule Keblemann, the designer behind the stunning Hops and Meadow Shawl in our Annual (issue four). Not only does Jule create fabulous patterns, she...

A Chat with Designer, Ashley Lee
Ashley is the creative mind behind the beautiful Apple Blossom Shawl, published in Annual, Issue Four, which we have all fallen in love with here at the Mill. A Chinese-American...
A Chat with Designer, Ashley Lee
Ashley is the creative mind behind the beautiful Apple Blossom Shawl, published in Annual, Issue Four, which we have all fallen in love with here at the Mill. A Chinese-American...

Socktober at John Arbon Textiles
If you’re new to the whole Socktober phenomenon, you might have seen the name crop up over social media and be wondering what all the fuss is about… Socktober, occurring...
Socktober at John Arbon Textiles
If you’re new to the whole Socktober phenomenon, you might have seen the name crop up over social media and be wondering what all the fuss is about… Socktober, occurring...