Woolwerx
Greater Vancouver's Fibre-Based Social Enterprise

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​Woolwerx is a social enterprise created by the Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver to provide training and employment to marginalized women in BC’s Lower Mainland.

Located in New Westminster, Woolwerx is based on a unique concept: turning donated wool from local shepherds (which is otherwise disposed of as a waste product) into hand-processed wools and yarns.

Ways to support Woolwerx:
- Donate raw wool and roving for them to process and create products with.
- Shop yarn and other wool products in their Etsy shop

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Local Resource

Guilds and Fibresheds

FRASER VALLEY KNITTING GUILD

GREATER VANCOUVER WEAVERS AND SPINNERS GUILD
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​VANCOUVER GUILD OF FIBRE ARTS

WEST COAST KNITTERS GUILD

VANCOUVER FIBRESHED  

SUNSHINE COAST FIBRESHED

VANCOUVER ISLAND FIBRESHED​

​Get involved in your fibre community and join a group!

More Guilds & Fibresheds

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Local Events

XOXO Fibre - North Vancouver - Sept 2024
Fibres West - Cloverdale 2025
Knit City - Vancouver - Sept 2025
Fibrations - Victoria - August 2025
Fibre Camp - Sunshine Coast - Sept 2025

See all local events with links

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Image from North Beach Farm on Salt Spring Island

Local Resource

Farm Specific Yarn

DISDERDO RANCH - Rust Valley, BC sheep
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​HINTERLAND TEXTILES - Vancouver Island Alpaca

KENSINGTON PRAIRIE FARM - Langley alpaca

NORTH BEACH FARM - Salt Spring Island sheep

WOOSTERVILLE MINI-LLAMA FARM - BC Llamas​

Find more farm yarn

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Local Resource

School of SweetGeorgia

The School of Sweet Georgia (SOS) is a Vancouver-based online art school who aims to inspire, educate, and engage you in the Fibre Arts. Their brilliantly produced videos include more than 80 courses and workshops with a team of knowledgeable artisan instructors, many of whom are local.

Get 15% off a 3 month membership at SOS

Janna Maria filming a tapestry weaving workshop in her studio with the School of SweetGeorgia

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Who Runs this Site?

Hi, I'm Janna Maria. I am a tapestry weaver, botanical dyer, knitter, instructor and proprietor of Everlea Yarn. I hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fibres from Concordia University (Montreal) and am currently living on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia.
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​I created VancouverYarn.com in 2008 as a single space to hold as much of the do-it-yourself textile awesomeness that I could find in and around greater Vancouver. That was less than one year before I entered into Capilano University's, since closed, Textile Art diploma program. As part of my entrance portfolio, the Vancouver Yarn website helped me win the entrance scholarship there!

My business ​Everlea Yarn is consciously sourced yarn which I dye with plants. My signature line of fingering, sport and worsted weight merino wool yarns begin as 100% organic merino sourced from New Zealand which are spun in Ontario and then dyed with plant dyes in British Columbia by me.
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Pictured above I am holding my Ambershore Shawl designed by local designer Inese Sang, and knit in Everlea Fingering. Shop these colourway combos HERE.

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