John Arbon Exmoor Sock

Exmoor Sock is a yarn with a strong sense of place — spun to celebrate the Exmoor landscape and bred for the rigours of sock knitting, while being versatile enough for any project that calls for something hard-wearing and machine-washable.

It's durable and springy, with excellent stitch definition and the kind of resilience that holds up wash after wash. We have it in 50g skeins, handily sized so that three skeins will yield two pairs of socks in most sizes.

The colours have a depth that comes directly from how the yarn is made. The fibres are first blended into their natural undyed shades — Mizzle and Drizzle — then spun and sent to the dye house to be overdyed in the final colours. Dyeing on that grey base gives each shade extra richness, and a quiet heathered quality that catches the light beautifully.

60% Exmoor Blueface SW — our most local sheep, a cross of the Exmoor Horn and Bluefaced Leicester, producing a soft, springy fibre.  20% Falklands Corriedale SW — smooth with a hint of lustre and plenty of bounce, from a Merino × Lincoln Longwool cross.  10% Zwartbles — now farmed widely across Exmoor, this naturally dark fibre adds volume, bounce, and depth of tone to the blend.  10% Nylon — adds the strength and wear-resistance essential in a sock yarn, greatly extending the life of your finished socks. 

The colour names are drawn from Exmoor dialect — the quiet, local vernacular of the moor that's been spoken by farmers and country folk for generations. Bibble Bug (woodlouse), Peggles (berries), Fairy Thimble (foxglove) — each name rooting the yarn a little deeper into the landscape it comes from. It's the kind of detail that makes Exmoor Sock feel like more than just a colourway palette.

Available in 22 shades in 4ply.