As the UK celebrates the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and an extra special long bank holiday weekend, we here at Loop have been thinking about what makes the British Isles such a wonderful place to be. No surprise: for us it’s of course the amazing creators who make some of our favourite wools.

They say a poor workman blames his tools, so it must also be true that a good craftswoman venerates hers. From project to project, these loyal objects remain close at hand and always get the job done. Here are some of our most coveted and comforting tools of the trade. Darning Jellyfish You’ve heard of the darning egg, you’ve heard of the darning mushroom, but have you yet met the whimsical Darning Jellyfish by Hikaru Noguchi? This magical tool from this incredible designer at the vanguard of visible mending will surely not go amiss in your toolbox. Its flat bottom …

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