Press Statement - Blackwattle Yarns Original Colourways come to Eden Hills, South Australia !
Oct 1st 2025
After having made the very difficult decision to step away from her hand-dyed yarn business, Angela Smith ( proprietor of Blackwattle Yarns, Murrumbateman NSW ) has handed over responsibility of her hard earned collection of recipes to The House Dye's Jamo ( Mark Jamieson ). "The House Dye" is the in-house hand-dyed yarn range produced for the Skein Machine Yarn Store ( Eden Hills, Adelaide Australia ). Angela and her team developed and honed their yarn dying skills over the last decade, producing an iconic brand that has become widely loved and wholeheartedly adopted by the Australian fibre arts community as well as being enthusiastically exported around the globe.
It is a great honor to be able to continue to produce these wonderful colorways and to have been trained in person by Angela in the methods and skills required to accurately and efficiently reproduce these lovely recipes. We are excited to get started on this new journey and look forward to being able to bring these colors to life on some familiar yarn bases and some entirely new ones. ( Mark "Jamo" Jamieson ).
As of October 1st, our offering of "Blackwattle Original Colours" is limited as we have only just begun production of these new colourways. However you can stay informed on "stock updates" by joining the Skein Machine Yarn Store "Newsletter", and by visiting the official "House Dye - Blackwattle" STOCK PAGE.
To learn more about Blackwattle Yarns, its history and how it became one of the largest and most successful hand-dyed-yarn businesses in Australia, read this great article by Kate from Ashford. The Blackwattle farm continues to operate tour groups and gift shop / cafe vist www.blackwattleyarn.com.au for more information.
"The House Dye Yarns" and "Skein Machine Yarn Store" are businesses/brands run by Mark Jamieson ( "Jamo" ) and his partner Mat. Who opened their doors in August of 2024, in Eden Hills South Australia. The store has been warmly embraced by the local fibre arts community and has gone from strength to strength in its first year of operations. Six Months into its operations the store doubled in size taking over the adjacent Commercial Space in order to accommodate the business growth. The store is host to a wide variety of Fibre Arts classes, heavily supporting local / interstate "artists" and "teachers". Home to "Jamo Designs" (another business run by the duo ) they export their own Knit Patterns Designs across the globe to an avid and ever growing fan-base. The design arm of the business is a major draw card for fibre-arts enthusiasts who travel from interstate, Skein Machine has become a "destination/highlight" when they visit South Australia. You can discover more about SkeinMachine yarn store, The House Dye Yarns and Jamo Designs by visiting www.skeinmachine.store ( or Instagram https://www.instagram.com/skein.machine/ or Facebook https://www.facebook.com/skeinmachine/ )
The official Announcement