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| Decision field | Open accessYarn Database EU Dyers and MakersEuropean UnionRemove | Open accessTextile Resource Access & Subscription CheckGlobalRemove | Open accessPattern Grading & Size-Run Validation RecordGlobalRemove |
|---|---|---|---|
| Decision fit | |||
| Primary job | Choose materials | Source production | Find patterns & fit |
| Also useful for | No additional job recorded | No additional job recorded | No additional job recorded |
| Area | Yarn | Production | Patterns & fit |
| Best for | Finding independent EU yarn or fibre dyers with off-Ravelry purchase routes | Comparing the account, payment, renewal, cancellation, export, evidence, and commercial-discovery boundaries of one textile resource before committing time, data, or money | Auditing inherited grade rules or controlling a new multi-size pattern release from approved targets through sample evidence |
| Know before using | It is one curator's intentionally selective, off-Ravelry-oriented database, inventories change, and paid supporters can receive rotating priority placement; verify availability, fibre claims, shipping, and terms directly. | The worksheet does not determine whether a price is fair, interpret privacy or contract law, audit account security, prove cancellation or deletion, compare every feature, qualify a provider, validate a directory record, or recommend a subscription. Providers control their plans, prices, terms, rankings, exports, and product behavior and may change them. | The record does not create a production grade, supply universal increments or breakpoints, validate a CAD file or fit population, reproduce licensed standards, or replace qualified anthropometric, pattern, technical-design, fit, quality, accessibility, safety, statistical, and user-research review. |
| Practical access | |||
| For | Makers | Both | Apparel brands |
| Location or jurisdiction | European Union | Global | Global |
| Access | Open access | Open access | Open access |
| Format | Directory | Stitch Authority | Stitch Authority |
| Source type | Community database | Stitch Authority | Stitch Authority |
| Source and review | |||
| What the source establishes | The individually researched database offers free listings and sortable yarn, fibre, designer, editor, accessory, and location views; the EU page spans multiple countries and direct seller profiles. | The source-reviewed worksheet separates the exact job, signed-out access, account and contributed-data boundary, plan and renewal, cancellation and exit, coverage and maintenance, and commercial discovery inputs. Its current examples use first-party pages from Handweaving.net, Yarnpond, Threadloop, Open Supply Hub, Common Objective, and Ravelry without ranking them. | The guide cites current ISO body-table, size-designation, and garment-measurement boundaries plus two peer-reviewed studies that tested the relationship between conventional grade rules, anthropometric evidence, and garment fit; it requires product-specific target deltas and validation instead of publishing universal increments. |
| Linked page reviewed | Jul 15, 2026 | Jul 28, 2026 | Jul 27, 2026 |
| Next review due | Jan 11, 2027 | Jul 28, 2027 | Jul 27, 2027 |
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