McIntosh

What to know about shopping at McIntosh

McIntosh is a London-based haberdashery and yarn shop founded by James McIntosh, focused on natural-fibre yarns, knitting tools, and the well-being side of textile crafts rather than mass-market yarn at the cheapest possible price. The yarn range is the heart of the catalogue — hand-dyed sock yarn for socks and shawls, merino-silk blends for lightweight garments, alpaca and wool blends for warmth, and chunky pure wool for accessories and home goods. Brands stocked include LANG YARNS, Opal Yarn, WOOLADDICTS, Schoppel, and Symfonie alongside the McIntosh own-label hand-dyed range.

Knitting and crochet tool stocks lean toward the considered end of the market: KnitPro interchangeable circular sets, Lantern Moon rosewood and ebony needles, Addi turbo circulars, SeeKnit bamboo, and Clover accessories. The patterns library covers everything from beginner-friendly first projects through to lace shawls and cabled jumpers, with the Kath Andrews Designs collection a notable highlight that sits between traditional knitwear and contemporary fashion.

McIntosh runs as a Shopify storefront with same-day dispatch on UK orders placed before the daily cut-off, and the brand voice frames knitting as a mindful practice rather than purely a craft hobby — the founder publishes books and online content on knitting for mental well-being and stress reduction, which is an unusual angle in a UK yarn retailer.

Voucher savings are most reliable on the seasonal end-of-line sale rounds — usually post-Christmas in January and again in late summer as new autumn yarns land — when discontinued colourways drop by 20–40%. Outside those windows, the strongest value comes from buying sock yarn in 10-skein sets where the cost-per-skein is meaningfully lower than singles, and from the patterns-plus-yarn kit bundles that pre-discount the combination versus buying the two separately.

— MoneySaverCodes Team