Textile Lab

We’re here at the stunning Center for Food and Agriculture selling our beautiful Climate Beneficial products. We have a fresh batch of hand ecoprint socks available 🙌🌸🌼🌺.

Our yarns and textiles are made through cooperative economic models along with other brands. We share the cost and distribute the risk of making regional yarns while giving back to the soil 💕

Come by and learn more about our work with and help support regional farms right here in NY!

The beautiful natural brown of our Climate Beneficial fiber blend — warm, grounding, and full of life.

We're excited to share that our year-long collaboration with —made possible through the grant—is 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲!

In March 2025, NYFIC awarded our collaboration proposal with Seed2Shirt, a member of the Climate Beneficial Fiber Alliance, to develop a yarn blending our NYS Climate Beneficial™ wool and alpaca with upland cotton from Black-owned farms in Seed2Shirt's Climate Beneficial™ network.

Through this collaboration, we created woven yardage and two knit pieces that 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝘁—supporting 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 while helping 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗮 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻 in both regions.

The fiber blend: 25% NYS Wool, 25% NYS Alpaca, 50% Upland Cotton.

This is a lighter, transitional-weight yarn designed to bridge seasons: breathable from the cotton, with warmth and gentle loft from the wool and alpaca. It’s made to feel substantial without being heavy—ideal for everyday wear from early fall through late spring.

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who played a role in bringing this collaboration to life!

Beach sweater back in stock!!
A lovely wrap and tie cardigan with two front pockets. Perfect for snuggling indoors or layering up to stay warm on the go.

Available online and at our upcoming markets!

Market snow day sale 🤍 One day only, 10% off all items.

We were snowed out of the Beacon Farmer’s market today, so we’re offering a surprise 10% discount on holiday items 🙌 Use code SNOW25 at checkout!

For local customers 👉 the is open! We were just snowed in, so please put on your snow boots and go and support our farmers and other local vendors today!

Many thanks for your support, everyone!

Our friends are organizing this beautiful Gathered Workshop Series. This is a wonderful way to connect people to natural systems and encourage collective making. For more information go to

About the workshop series: ​
The Gathered Workshop series is a monthly creative workshop where, each session, we explore new ways to observe our surroundings and uncover inspiration in the materials already around us.

Together, we’ll investigate what can be gathered from our natural environment, such as: waste materials, found objects, local techniques, and learn new practices from the people in our community, to create independently and intentionally. The series highlights that meaningful creation doesn’t require extensive resources or reaching beyond our immediate environment; instead, we can make powerful work by embracing what we already have.

This week, Rachel Witte featured our collaboration with in a beautifully comprehensive piece on the website.

After the mill we had long partnered with closed its doors, we sought, and ultimately found a true alignment of vision, values, and practice with American Woolen, the historic Connecticut mill renowned for its luxury woven fabrics. They stepped in at a pivotal moment and expertly spun our regional, climate-beneficial 50/50 wool–alpaca blend yarn.

The article touches upon the challenges we’re facing in creating our regional midscale manufacturing infrastructure, and highlights how this collaboration demonstrates that with the right partners, it is possible to keep fiber processing local, maintain rigorous quality standards, and invest in a soil-to-soil system that supports farms, mills, designers, and the land itself.

Many thanks to Rachel Witte, and for telling this story. Much gratitude to Jacob Long, and for their ongoing partnership in building a resilient regional textile economy. Lastly, we have great appreciation for the brands in our Carbon Farm Network for their ongoing commitment to supporting regional, regenerative fiber systems.

You can read the full article on the Fibershed website - find the link in our bio.

The three pillars of the Carbon Farm Network.

The fashion industry tends to reward excessive production, and to keep extractive practices far from the eyes of consumers and even from designers. The 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐦 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤, and the way we structure our cooperative, is the exact opposite. We want to highlight and collaborate directly with our growers. We want to know who is growing, processing, and creating our yarn.
We don’t reward overproduction for the sake of lower prices. Instead, we work cooperatively to reach production minimums and to distribute costs according to each brand’s production needs.
Together, we create a regional system for sensible production - producing high-quality, local, traceable, Climate Beneficial™ Verified yarn.

Are you an independent local brand? The CFN might be the perfect fit for you - let’s talk!
Email us at:
[email protected]
or write a DM.

𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐦 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤!
If you’re a small, independent brand located in NY State, and you’re interested in working with regional, Climate Beneficial™ Verified yarns and textiles, you might want to hear more about our network!

The Carbon Farm Network (CFN) is a group of local small brands who work in a 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥. We pool resources together in order to 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐮𝐦𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥™ 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐚𝐫𝐧.

Through the CFN we 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 and support the small farms throughout NYS that 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬, assuring their fiber is traceable and 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥™ 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝.

Are you an independent local brand? This might be the perfect fit for you - 𝐥𝐞𝐭’𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤! Write to us for any inquiries and for 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 at 𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐛@𝐠𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥.𝐜𝐨𝐦 , or write us a DM.

The super lovely visited my Community Supported Textiles class today and shared her work, research and community engagement with my students.

We loved hearing about Mahdiyya’s deep connection to materials and how she uses her textile workshops as a way to raise awareness and empower communities to embrace a more just and healthy textile system. It was inspiring to learn about her creative practice and work with . Many thanks Mahdiyyah! 🙏💕