Ettrick Yarn Dyers
| Address: | Riverside Mills
Selkirk Scotland |
| Postcode: | TD7 5EF |
| Email: | info@ettrickyarndyers.co.uk |
| Telephone: | 01750 700024 |
| Website: | Click to go to website |
Description
When it is important to retain a yarn with a natural feel and handle, hank dyeing is the preferred route. With our specialised Italian machines, we can offer this service to discerning customers. We successfully dye various high priced yarns, among them being silk and cashmere. When the greater costs can be absorbed in designer quality goods, or where a custom colour is required in small quantities, the method can also be used for lambswool.Depending on the quality and count of yarn to be dyed, weights from 5 to 30 kilos can be dyed in a single batch, but with our superior colour matching, larger quantities can be dyed in multiple batches. After being dyed, the yarn is dried and then backwound onto plastic or paper cones prior to despatch.
We are interested in speaking to designers, weavers and knitwear manufacturers who would be able to take advantage of this facility.
COLOUR MATCHING FACILITIES
Ettrick has a full technical back up of its own inhouse
laboratory, containing very modern sample dyeing machines
and assisted by accurate colour measurement systems.
The laboratory supports the production dyehouse with
accurate recipe predictions for both hank and package
dyeing, for a fast and reliable service. We produce lab
samples for Customers on their own material, matching
their individual colour ideas.
Customers and designers can discuss colour requirements
directly with our technical team on a one to one basis
over the telephone by fax or visiting us in person.
You may also send us a colour sample and we will
endeavour to match it for you.
Ettrick Yarn Dyers Ltd., the new company set up at Riverside Mills, Selkirk, Scotland, by three senior members of the former Laidlaw & Fairgrieve dyehouse team, continues to grow.
They have invested in a new, computer-controlled package winder - which will enable the company to treat very fine yarns - a new boiler, and three hank-dyeing machines.
Technical director Mr. Bill Renwick said:
"Most of the yarns we dye are for the weaving trade, but we also deal with a few knitwear companies, providing smaller quantities of fine yarns. We are hoping to expand dyeing of fine-quality yarns such as cashmere and fine lamb's wool.
Designers complain, for example, that spinners will only make a minimum of 20 kilos for them, when they want 5 kilos. We feel with the setup here we can work more closely with designers, and my view of designers, especially new designers, is that they like to put their mark on things.
They demand shades and colours unique to them, and we think we have the expertise and equipment to give them a quick response."
The company, operating from the former Laidlaw & Fairgrieve premises beside the River Ettrick, offers a commission yarn-dyeing service.
It concentrates on wool package-yarn dyeing, but has equally wide experience of dyeing silk, linen, cotton, cashmere and fancy yarns.
Laidlaw & Fairgrieve's woollen-spinning business closed at the end of last June. Mr. Renwick, head dyer there for 18 years, led the buy-out team, which also included Mr. Rob Anderson, and Mr. Renwick's son, Mr. Jason Renwick, who is in charge of the laboratories. Mr. Anderson, commercial director, deals with order intake and customer liaison.
Ettrick had only been in operation three months in November when the Wool Record visited, and Mr. Renwick was enjoying a "hands on" approach, at work in the dyehouse.
He said: "People are nervous of going into an industry that may be seen to be in decline, and they are also nervous about dealing with someone new, but we already have a history and the contacts.