There is a wonderful small country above Latvia to the left from Russia under Finland, Estonia. The capital Tallinn is a very beautiful old Hansa town and there are wonderful craft stores. Everything can be found in really good prices, but I concentrate this survey for yarn only.
Because we got to Tallinn from Helsinki, we first took a taxi from the harbour to Karnaluks. They sell everything. The store is really well hidden. There is a tiny text on the door. You go to the second floor and ring the bell. There among Finnish yarn entusiasts and cardboard boxes they sell everything for crafting, beads, knitting machines, yarn... lace... buttons... yarn... stickers... needles and hooks...
Look for stuff on their webpage www.KL24.ee (no English!) and write a list for yourself. Otherwise you don't know where to start.
A small vocabulary:
Needles = vardad
Circular needles = ringvardad
Yarn = lõng
Knitting= kudumine
Crocheting = heegeldamine
Books = raamatud
Laces = pitsid
Address: OÜ Karnaluks, KA Hermanni 1, 10121 Tallinn, Tel./Fax: +372-601 3373.
Karnaluks Ou (Map)
Shopping center Kaubamaja has got Liann Lõngad - yarn store in the ground floor of the B- wing of the Gallery. This link above opens to their Products -page.
The store is small but good and sells European yarns.
Gonsiori 2, 10143, Tallinn, Eesti - 667 3120
Going to the Old Town there's a new yarn store. They sell also pottery. They have good quality Estonian wool. Prices are affordable, but not the cheapest. I really liked the place.
In the Old Town very near Raekoja plats there's a store called VeTa (part of Calisto Varahaldur OÜ). In the second floor there is very beautiful Turkish yarn and zazzling coloured crochet hooks. I bought a lot of that wonderful Turkish mohair. It's devine. The yarn is multicoloured but instead of stupid ready-made patterns and dots some sock yarns have and blunt stripes the colours change wave-like as on a luxorious aquarell work. Yarn looks stripey on the skein, but knitted it's really beautiful. I have never seen as beutiful colour changes on any yarn when the yarn is knitted.
The Turkish company is called Yünteks.
If you look above you'll see some devine Turkish mohair in minty green and purple tones reminding of Crocus flowers pushing through snow in early Spring.
For the friends of rosey and gray tones is this baby here:
More beauty on these pages:
VeTa on Pikk
This web page is in English. VeTa also sell clothes, both to men and women.
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