Rowan Ambassadors at "The Mill"
The time has come to let you in on the what happened at "The Mill" full disclosure....no holds barred.....are you ready? But first, a little history..... The original "Rowan Weavers" operated from premises above a local shop in Holmfirth, but in 1979, Stephen Sheard and Simon Cockin, friends and business partners, bought the neglected Green Lane Mill building with the view to rejuvenate it and make it their home. A chance meeting with Kaffe Fassett, a deal with a magazine, their first mail order kit, "Super Triangles Jacket" changed their focus toward knitting yarns, and "Rowan" was born. the "Super Triangles Jacket" Rowan thought that they "might" sell 400 of these kits. Woman and Home magazine thought that this design called for too many shades.....nobody would knit it! over 7000 kits were sold! in 1986, Rowan launched their twice annual Rowan Magazine series... Kaffe Fassett, Sasha Kagan, Annabel Fo...